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We revisit the problem of point-contact tunnel junctions involving one-dimensional superconductors and present a simple scheme for computing the full current-voltage characteristics within the framework of the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Bolech , T. Giamarchi

Superconductivity in the Bechgaard salts series of quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors occurs on the verge of spin-density-wave ordering when hydrostatic pressure is applied. The sequence of instabilities is intimately connected to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-10 C. Bourbonnais , A. Sedeki

We review the current understanding of superconductivity in the quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors of the Bechgaard and Fabre salt families. We discuss the interplay between superconductivity, antiferromagnetism, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Dupuis , C. Bourbonnais , J. C. Nickel

On the basis of the Keldysh method of non-equilibrium systems, we develop a theory of electron tunneling in normal-metal/superconductor junctions. By using the tunneling Hamiltonian model (being appropriate for the tight-binding systems),…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Xin-Zhong Yan , Hongwei Zhao , Chia-Ren Hu

In this brief account, we shall review the different mechanisms giving rise to itinerant and localized antiferromagnetism in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors: the Bechgaard salts and their sulfur analogs. We will then focus on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Bourbonnais

Nonequilibrium electronic transport through a molecular level weakly coupled to a single coherent phonon/vibration mode has been studied for superconducting leads. The Keldysh Green function formalism is used to compute the current for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Zazunov , R. Egger , C. Mora , T. Martin

The tunneling conductance spectra of a normal-metal/insulator/quasi-one-dimensional superconductor is calculated by using the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formulation. The pairing symmetry of the superconductor is assumed to be $p$, $d$, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Stefanakis

Using a renormalization group approach, we determine the phase diagram of an extended quasi-one-dimensional electron gas model that includes interchain hopping, nesting deviations and both intrachain and interchain repulsive interactions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Nickel , R. Duprat , C. Bourbonnais , N. Dupuis

We formulate a theoretical framework to describe multiparticle current transport in planar superconducting tunnel junctions with diffusive electrodes. The approach is based on direct solving of quasiclassical Keldysh-Green function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-11 E. V. Bezuglyi , A. S. Vasenko , E. N. Bratus' , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

Recent experimental results indicate the possible realization of a bulk odd-frequency superconducting state in the compounds CeCu$_2$Si$_2$, and CeRhIn$_5$. Motivated by this, we present a study of the quantum transport properties of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-05-07 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Yukio Tanaka , Yasuhiro Asano , Asle Sudbø

We show that the Josephson effect between triplet superconductors is sensitive to the relative orientation of the d-vectors across the junction. In addition, we point out that the temperature and angular dependence of the Josephson effect…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. D. Vaccarella , R. D. Duncan , C. A. R. Sá de Melo

In this tutorial we will tackle the problem of electronic correlations in quasi-one-dimensional organic superconductors. We will go through different pieces of experimental evidence showing the range of applicability of the Fermi and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-03 Claude Bourbonnais

Using the Keldysh formalism the tunneling current through a hybrid structure where a confined magnetic insulator (I) is sandwiched between two non-magnetic leads is calculated. The leads can be either normal metals (M) or superconductors…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Sandschneider , W. Nolting

We modify and extend previous microscopic calculations of tunneling in superconducting junctions based on a non-equilibrium Green function formalism to include the case of spin-triplet pairing. We show that distinctive features are present…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Bolech , T. Giamarchi

We calculate the tunneling conductance spectra of a normal-metal/insulator/triplet superconductor using the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk (BTK) formulation. Possible states for the superconductor are considered with horizontal lines of nodes,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Stefanakis

We develop a consistent method for calculating non-equilibrium Green's functions for a nano-sized dot coupled to electron reservoirs by tunneling. The leads are generally at different chemical potentials (non-equilibrium), and the dot may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jung Hoon Han

We calculate the tunneling conductance spectra of a normal metal / insulator / triplet superconductor from the reflection amplitudes using the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk (BTK) formula. For the triplet superconductor we assume one special…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Stefanakis

Recent experiments have demonstrated the nonequilibrium control of the supercurrent through diffusive phase-coherent normal-metal weak links. The experimental results have been accurately described by the quasiclassical Green's function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Tero T. Heikkilä , Jani Särkkä , Frank K. Wilhelm

We review the properties of quasi-one-dimensional organic superconductors: the Bechgaard salts and their sulfur analogs in their normal phase precursor tolong-range order. We go through the main observations made in the normal state of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Bourbonnais , D. Jerome

By scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) we have probed the local quasi-particle density of states (DOS) of the Bechgaard salt organic superconductor $\mathrm{(TMTSF)_{2}ClO_{4}}$ in slowly cooled single crystals cleaved under ultrahigh…

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