English
Related papers

Related papers: Coherent Transport Through a Quantum Trombone

200 papers

We have performed high resolution angle-resolved photoemission measurements on superconducting electron-doped NaFe$_{0.95}$Co$_{0.05}$As ($T_{c}\sim$18 K). We observed a hole-like Fermi surface around the zone center and two electron-like…

Recent novel mesoscopic two-arm experiments involving quantum dots, electron interferometry and Aharononov-Bohm effects have enabled measuring the electron transmission probabilities and the phases. Unexpected features in the phases as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Englman , A. Yahalom

We present electrical transport experiments performed on submicron hybrid devices made of a ferromagnetic conductor (Co) and a superconducting (Al) electrode. The sample was patterned in order to separate the contributions of the Co…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Giroud , K. Hasselbach , H. Courtois , D. Mailly , B. Pannetier

We investigate the role of long-range Coulomb interactions in $M$-valley moir\'es using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. This platform was recently proposed [Nature 643, 376 (2025) and arXiv:2411.18828 (2024)] as a new class…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Christophe De Beule , Liangtao Peng , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

We investigate theoretically the simultaneous tunneling of two electrons from a superconductor into a normal metal at low temperatures and voltages. Such an emission process is shown to be equivalent to the Andreev reflection of an incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Prada , F. Sols

We study the interacting transport properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) using the topological heavy-fermion (THF) model. In the THF model, TBG comprises localized, correlated $f$-electrons and itinerant, dispersive $c$-electrons. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-23 Dumitru Călugăru , Haoyu Hu , Rafael Luque Merino , Nicolas Regnault , Dmitri K. Efetov , B. Andrei Bernevig

We study the transport properties of a Josephson junction consisting of two identical $s$-wave superconductors separated by an even-layer ${\mathrm{MnBi}}_{2}{\mathrm{Te}}_{4}$ (MBT). Using recursive Green's function method, we calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Yu-Hang Li , Ran Cheng

We study theoretically electronic transport through a contact of a quantum wire with 2D or 3D leads and find that if the contact is not smooth and adiabatic then the conduction is strongly suppressed below a threshold voltage $V_T$, while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 S. N. Artemenko , P. P. Aseev , D. S. Shapiro

We calculate the oscillations of the DC conductance across a mesoscopic ring, simultaneously tuned by applied magnetic and electric fields orthogonal to the ring. The oscillations depend on the Aharonov-Bohm flux and of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capozza , D. Giuliano , P. Lucignano , A. Tagliacozzo

We study resonant transport through a superconducting double barrier structure. At each barrier, due to the proximity effect, an incident electron can either reflect as an electron or a hole (Andreev reflection). Similarly, transport across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

In quantum materials, electrons that have strong correlations tend to localize, leading to quantum spins as the building blocks for low-energy physics. When strongly correlated electrons coexist with more weakly-correlated conduction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-28 Haoyu Hu , Ang Cai , Lei Chen , Lili Deng , Jedediah H. Pixley , Kevin Ingersent , Qimiao Si

The Andreev reflection probability for a ferromagnet/isolator/superconductor (FIS) contact at the arbitrary spin-dependent amplitudes of the electron waves transmitted through and reflected from the potential barrier is found. It is shown…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 B. P. Vodopyanov

Recently, in topological insulators (TIs) the phenomenon of planar Hall effect (PHE) wherein a current driven in presence an in-plane magnetic field generates a transverse voltage has been experimentally witnessed. There have been a couple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Dhavala Suri , Abhiram Soori

Electron tunneling through small metallic islands with low capacitance is studied. The large charging energy in these systems is responsible for nonperturbative Coulomb blockade effects. We further consider the effect of electron…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Jürgen König , Herbert Schoeller , Gerd Schön , Rosario Fazio

We investigate electron transporting through a two-dimensional ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic tunnel junction on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator with taking into $\delta$ doping account. It is found that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-05 Jian-Hui Yuan , Yan Zhang , Daizheng Huang , Qinhu Zhong , Xin Zhang

The linear conductance of a molecular conductor oscillating between two metallic leads is investigated numerically both for Hubbard interacting and noninteracting electrons. The molecule-leads tunneling barriers depend on the molecule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. A. Al-Hassanieh , C. A. Büsser , G. B. Martins , E. Dagotto

We theoretically analyzed the Andreev reflection in ferromagnetic metal/nonmagnetic metal/superconductor double junctions with special attention to the electron interference effect in the nonmagnetic metal layer. We showed that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Hiroyuki Ohtori , Hiroshi Imamura

By an exact formulation of tunnelling into a multi-band superconductor in terms of Green's functions, we demonstrate that the multi-band feature of the iron-based superconductors can lead to novel interference between Andreev reflections…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Da Wang , Yuan Wan , Qiang-Hua Wang

We study tunneling between a localized defect state and a conduction band in the presence of strong electron-electron and electron-phonons interactions. We derive the tunneling rate as a function of the position of the defect energy level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Mozyrsky , I. Martin , A. Shnirman , M. B. Hastings

This is a review of electronic quantum interference in mesoscopic ring structures based on graphene, with a focus on the interplay between the Aharonov-Bohm effect and the peculiar electronic and transport properties of this material. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-06 Jörg Schelter , Patrik Recher , Björn Trauzettel