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The standard mean-field treatment of low-temperature superconductors leads to a square-root divergent density of states at the gap value. This feature can lead to unphysical logarithmic divergences in various quantities, such as currents…
This paper presents a general model for calculating the density of states and the Cooper pair potential in proximity coupled superconducting bi- and tri-layer films. The typical example of superconducting tunnel junctions is used to show…
We study the superconducting proximity effect in inhomogeneous systems in which a disordered or quasicrystalline normal-state wire is connected to a BCS superconductor. We self-consistently compute the local superconducting order parameters…
We consider effects of Coulomb interaction in a granular normal metal at not very low temperatures suppressing weak localization effects. In this limit calculations with the initial electron Hamiltonian are reduced to integrations over a…
Bulk LaBa_2Cu_3O_(7-y) samples with different Ag additions were investigated. It was shown that Ag does not enter the crystallographic structure of the superconductor and segregates on the grain boundary region. Current path in these…
Quantum coherent effects can be probed in multilayer graphene through electronic transport measurements at low temperatures. In particular, bilayer graphene is known to be susceptible to quantum interference corrections of the conductivity,…
Following our previous results, which provide evidence for the emergence of a chiral p-wave triplet-pairing component in superconducting Nb upon the adsorption of chiral molecules, we turned to investigate whether such an effect can take…
We report on the first observation of a novel type of superconducting proximity network using a superconductor-normal metal bilayer. Little-Parks oscillation measurements show that the superconducting current flows through a path enclosed…
Proximity effect is used to generate effective topological superconductor by placing strong spin orbit interacting metals with superconducting materials, aiming to produce Majorana zero modes useful for topologically protected quantum…
The attenuation of longitudinal ultrasonic wave with the frequency of 30 MHz in Cu-Nb copper-niobium (40 vol%) composite system at low temperatures from 0.35 K up to 2 K is researched. It was found that the ultrasonic attenuation decreases…
The injection of pure spin current into superconductors by the dynamics of a ferromagnetic contact is studied theoretically. Taking into account suppression of the order parameter at the interfaces (inverse proximity effect) and the…
We study theoretically proximity-induced superconductivity and its inverse effect in dice lattice flat band model by considering Josephson junction with an s-wave pairing in the superconducting leads. Using self-consistent tight-binding…
We demonstrate the role of proximity effect in the thermal hysteresis of superconducting constrictions. From the analysis of successive thermal instabilities in the transport characteristics of micron-size superconducting quantum…
We demonstrate theoretically that shining light on superconducting proximity structures controls the minigap and triplet proximity effect in normal and magnetic metals, respectively. Considering both a bilayer and Josephson junction…
It is now well established, both theoretically and experimentally, that very small changes in the size of isolated nanograins lead to substantial nonmonotonic variations, and sometimes enhancement, of the mean-field spectroscopic gap of…
Single-domain, epitaxially-grown Nb(110)/Au(111)/Nb(110) trilayers are studied in order to elucidate the superconducting proximity effect in the Au(111) layer. The critical current density, superconducting coherence length, and…
The theory of superconductivity in thin SN sandwiches (bilayers) in the diffusive limit is developed within the standard Usadel equation method, with particular emphasis on the case of very thin superconductive layers, d_S << d_N. The…
We report low-temperature transport measurements through molecules of Gd metallofullerenes between superconducting suspended electrodes. The presence and number of molecules in the 2 nm-wide gap between electrodes was determined by high…
Superconductivity can be modified by various effects related to randomness, disorder, structural defects, and other similar physical effects. Their affects on superconductivity are important because such effects are intrinsic to certain…
Clean metallic superlattice systems composed of alternating layers of superconducting and normal materials are considered, particularly aspects of the proximity effect as it affects the critical temperature. A simple model is used to…