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We show that very large negative magnetoresistance can be obtained in magnetic trilayers in a current-in-plane geometry owing to the existence of crossed Andreev reflection. This spin-valve consists of a thin superconducting film sandwiched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei , R. Fazio , F. Beltram

We have generalized the scattering-matrix theory of multiple Andreev reflections in mesoscopic Josephson junctions to the multi-mode case, and applied it to short superconductor/normal metal/superconductor junctions with diffusive electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-02-03 Athanassios Bardas , Dmitri V. Averin

We present a method to identify distinct tunneling modes in tunable superconducting tunnel junction composed of superconducting tip and sample in scanning tunneling microscope. Combining the measurement of the relative decay constant of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-22 Wonhee Ko , Eugene F. Dumitrescu , Petro Maksymovych

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

In this letter we consider Andreev tunneling between a normal metal and a one dimensional Josephson junction array with finite-range Coulomb energy. The $I-V$ characteristics strongly deviate from the classical linear Andreev current. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Falci , Rosario Fazio , A. Tagliacozzo , G. Giaquinta

Phase-coherent diffusive transport through mesoscopic hybrid superconductor/normal metal tunneling structures is investigated. For a N-s-S two-barrier tunneling system with bulk S and N electrodes coupled by a mesoscopic superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-25 A. V. Zaitsev , A. F. Volkov , S. W. D. Bailey , C. J. Lambert

The recent development of superconducting spintronics has revealed the spin-triplet superconducting proximity effect from a spin-singlet superconductor into a spin-polarized normal metal. In addition recently superconducting junctions using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Sadashige Matsuo , Kento Ueda , Shoji Baba , Hiroshi Kamata , Mizuki Tateno , Javad Shabani , Christopher J. Palmstrøm , Seigo Tarucha

The manuscript presents an overview of recent developments in theory of multiple Andreev reflections in Josephson junctions with arbitrary transparency and arbitrary quasiparticle dispersion in the electrodes.

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Averin

I present a review of the theory and basic equations for charge transport in superconducting alloys starting from the Keldysh formulation of the quasiclassical transport equations developed by Eilenberger, Larkin and Ovchinnikov and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-30 J. A. Sauls

We study the Josephson effect in a clean Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor junction for arbitrarily large spin polarizations. The Andreev reflection at a clean Ferromagnet-Superconductor interface is incomplete, and Andreev channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Cayssol , G. Montambaux

We study resonant Andreev tunneling through a strongly interacting quantum dot connected to a normal and to a superconducting lead. We obtain a formula for the Andreev current and apply it to discuss the linear and non-linear transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Rosario Fazio , Roberto Raimondi

Interference of electronic waves undergoing Andreev reflection in diffusive conductors determines the energy profile of the conductance on the scale of the Thouless energy. A similar dependence exists in the current noise, but its behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Houzet , F. Pistolesi

Mesoscopic systems possess shot noise in their currents due to the quantization of the conducting quasiparticles. Measurements of this shot noise are useful to study phenomena that do not manifest themselves in standard conductance or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Austin Marga , Venkat Chandrasekhar

Non-local conductance experiments using tunnel junctions can provide valuable spectroscopic information on both the transport and relaxation of quasiparticles in superconductors, as these techniques directly probe the quasiparticle charge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-30 Kevin M. Ryan , Detlef Beckmann , Venkat Chandrasekhar

Employing a spin-parameterized Kleldysh-Usadel technique for the diffusive regime, we demonstrate that even in the low proximity limit, considerable long-ranged triplet supercurrents can be effectively generated by spin-singlet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-04-16 Mohammad Alidoust , Klaus Halterman

Scattering processes in quantum materials emerge as resonances in electronic transport, including confined modes, Andreev states, and Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states. However, in most instances, these resonances are driven by a single scattering…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-26 Sharadh Jois , Jose L. Lado , Genda Gu , Qiang Li. , Ji Ung Lee

At the domain wall between two regions with the opposite Chern number, there should be the one-dimensional chiral states, which are called as the kink states. The kink states are robust for the lattice deformations. We design a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Lin Zhang , Chao Wang , Peipei Zhang , Yu-Xian Li

We show theoretically that specular Andreev reflection occurs stably at altermagnet--superconductor interfaces, which is a phenomenon that has previously been predicted only in a limited range of materials, such as Dirac/Weyl materials with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Satoshi Ikegaya

We study the crossed Andreev reflection and the nonlocal transport in the proximitized graphene/supercondcutor/proximitized graphene junctions with the pseudospin staggered potential and the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. The crossed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-27 Shu-Chang Zhao , Lu Gao , Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

We study nonequilibrium effects in current transport through voltage biased tunnel junction with long diffusive superconducting leads at low applied voltage, $eV \ll 2\Delta$, and finite temperatures. Due to a small value of the Josephson…

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