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The Andreev reflection of narrow ferromagnet/superconductor point contacts is theoretically studied. We show that the conductance quantization depends on whether the contact region is superconducting or ferromagnetic as well as on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Keiichirou Kikuchi , Hiroshi Imamura , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

We investigate quantum noise effect on the transportation of nonlocal Cooper pairs accross the realistic Andreev entangler which consists of an s-wave superconductor coupled to two small quantum dots at resonance which themselves are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Emilie Dupont , Karyn Le Hur

The conductance in two-dimensional (2D) normal-superconducting (NS) systems is analyzed in the limit of strong magnetic fields when the transport is mediated by the electron-hole states bound to the sample edges and NS interface, i.e., in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-03 I. M. Khaymovich , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , I. A. Shereshevskii , A. S. Mel'nikov

Crossed Andreev reflections and cotunneling occur between two neighbouring superconductor- normal metal or superconducting-ferromagnet interfaces. Previous works assumed a clean BCS superconductor. Here the calculation of the corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Feinberg

We consider tunneling in a hybrid system consisting of a superconductor with two or more probe electrodes which can be either normal metals or polarized ferromagnets. In particular we study transport at subgap voltages and temperatures.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Falci , D. Feinberg , F. W. J. Hekking

We investigate local and nonlocal entanglement of particle pairs induced by direct and crossed Andreev reflections at the interfaces between a superconductor and two normal conductors. It is shown theoretically that both local and nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhao Yang Zeng , Liling Zhou , Jongbae Hong , Baowen Li

We experimentally study electron transport across a single planar junction between the indium electrode and MnTe altermagnet candidate. We confirm standard Ohmic behavior with strictly linear current-voltage curves above the indium critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 D. Yu. Kazmin , V. D. Esin , Yu. S. Barash , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

We investigate the crossed Andreev reflections between two graphene leads connected by a narrow superconductor. When the leads are respectively of the n-and p- type, we find that electron elastic cotunneling and local Andreev reflection are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Cayssol

It is demonstrated that non local Cooper pairs can propagate in ferromagnetic electrodes having an opposite spin orientation. In the presence of such crossed correlations, the superconducting gap is found to depend explicitly on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Mélin

Last years many interesting effects related to incoherent MAR have been experimentally found, but only few of them were theoretically explained. It was shown, for example, that if the voltage at the edges of a linear array is $V$ then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-11 N. M. Chtchelkatchev

We report on an experimental and theoretical study of nonlocal transport in superconductor hybrid structures, where two normal-metal leads are attached to a central superconducting wire. As a function of voltage bias applied to both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-15 S. Kolenda , M. J. Wolf , D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin , D. Beckmann

We study a new hybrid normal-superconductor (NS) pi-junction in which the non-local current can be orders of magnitude larger than that in earlier proposed systems. We calculate the electronic transport of this NS hybrid when an external…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Polinák , C. J. Lambert , J. Koltai , J. Cserti

We investigate the Majorana physics and its effect on the electron transport in the non-topological superconductor(NS)-topological superconductor(TS) double junctions of a ring geometry. We find that, depending on the ratio between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Minchul Lee , Heunghwan Khim , Mahn-Soo Choi

Andreev reflection (AR) in ferromagnet/superconductor junctions is an indispensable spectroscopic tool for measuring spin polarization. We study theoretically how the presence of a thin semiconducting interface in such junctions, inducing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-11 Andreas Costa , Alex Matos-Abiague , Jaroslav Fabian

Splitting of Cooper pairs has recently been realized experimentally for s-wave Cooper pairs. A split Cooper pair represents an entangled two-electron pair state which has possible application in on-chip quantum computation. Likewise the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 H. Soller , A. Komnik

We report on high-resolution differential conductance experiments on nanoscale superconductor/ferromagnet tunnel junctions with ultra-thin oxide tunnel barriers. We observe subgap conductance features which are symmetric with respect to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 F. Hübler , M. J. Wolf , T. Scherer , D. Wang , D. Beckmann , H. v. Löhneysen

Andreev reflection-where an electron in a normal metal backscatters off a superconductor into a hole-forms the basis of low energy transport through superconducting junctions. Andreev reflection in confined regions gives rise to discrete…

Crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) is a nonlocal transport phenomenon in a system of two normal metal (NM) leads connected to a superconductor (SC) that converts the electron like excitations in one metallic lead into hole like excitations in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-18 Abhiram Soori

We experimentally investigate Andreev bound states (ABSs) in a carbon nanotube quantum dot (QD) connected to a superconducting Nb lead (S). A weakly coupled normal metal contact acts as a tunnel probe that measures the energy dispersion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-31 Jens Schindele , Andreas Baumgartner , Romain Maurand , Markus Weiss , Christian Schönenberger

We consider a normal-superconducting junction in order to investigate the effect of new physical ingredients on waiting times. First, we study the interplay between Andreev and specular scattering at the interface on the distribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 M. Albert , D. Chevallier , P. Devillard