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Analytic predictions for resonant transport in three generic structures are presented. For a structure comprising a normal (N) contact - normal dot (NDOT) - superconducting (S) contact, we predict that finite voltage, differential…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. R. Claughton , M. Leadbeater , C. J. Lambert , V. N. Prigodin

In this work, we theoretically study transverse magnetic focusing in a two-dimensional electron gas with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction when proximitized along its edge with a superconducting contact. The presence of superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

The formation of bound states at surfaces of materials with an energy gap in the bulk electron spectrum is a well known physical phenomenon. At superconductor surfaces, quasiparticles with energies inside the superconducting gap $\Delta$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Lofwander , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

In optical diffraction, the phase difference between sources in a grating or multi-slit mask is determined by the angle to the imaging screen, yielding the familiar multi-lobed diffraction image. Here, we realize a similar phenomenon in a…

Andreev reflection at the interface between a ferromagnet and a superconductor has become a foundation of a versatile new technique of measuring the spin polarization of magnetic materials. In this paper we will briefly outline a general…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 I. I. Mazin , A. A. Golubov , B. Nadgorny

We comment on a recent Letter by Waelti et al. (PRL 84, 5616 (2000)) on 'Spectroscopic evidence for unconventional superconductivity in UBe13'. We show - by using the basic Wexler formula - that it is unlikely to observe Andreev reflection…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Gloos

We use the Landauer-B\"uttiker scattering theory for electronic transport to calculate the current cross-correlations in a voltage-biased three-terminal junction with all superconducting leads. At low bias voltage, when charge transport is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Roman-Pascal Riwar , Driss M. Badiane , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Yuli V. Nazarov

We study theoretically the differential conductance at a junction between a time reversal symmetry broken spin orbit coupled system with a tunable band gap and a superconductor. We look for spin-dependent Andreev reflection (i.e, sub-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Joanna Hutchinson , Arijit Kundu

Ag/BSCCO and Fe/Ag/BSCCO planar tunnel junctions were constructed in order to study experimentally the effect of an exchange potential on the spin polarized current transported through Andreev bound states appearing at the interface with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Freamat , K. -W. Ng

We study Andreev reflection in a ballistic one-dimensional channel coupled in parallel to a superconductor via a tunnel barrier of finite length $L$. The dependence of the low-energy Andreev reflection probability $R_A$ on $L$ reveals the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giorgos Fagas , Grigory Tkachov , Andreas Pfund , Klaus Richter

The anomalous spatial shifts at interface scattering, first studied in geometric optics, recently found their counterparts in the electronic context. It was shown that both longitudinal and transverse shifts, analogous to the Goos-Hanchen…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Zhi-Ming Yu , Ying Liu , Shengyuan A. Yang

We compute analytically the full distribution of Andreev conductance $G_{\mathrm{NS}}$ of a metal-superconductor interface with a large number $N_c$ of transverse modes, using a random matrix approach. The probability distribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-07 Kedar Damle , Satya N. Majumdar , Vikram Tripathi , Pierpaolo Vivo

Electron correlation in a quantum many-body state appears as peculiar scattering behaviour at its boundary, symbolic of which is Andreev reflection at a metal-superconductor interface. Despite being fundamental in nature, dictated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Masayuki Hashisaka , Thibaut Jonckheere , Takafumi Akiho , Satoshi Sasaki , Jerome Rech , Thierry Martin , Koji Muraki

By combining the Dirac equation of relativistic quantum mechanics with the Bogoliubov-De Gennes equation of superconductivity we investigate the electron-hole conversion at a normal-metal--superconductor interface in graphene. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker

As charge carriers traverse a single superconductor ferromagnet interface they experience an additional spin-dependent phase angle which results in spin mixing and the formation of a bound state called the Andreev Bound State. This state is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-29 K. A. Yates , D. Prabhakaran , M. Egilmez , J. W. A. Robinson , L. F. Cohen

We present a general theory for the full counting statistics of multiple Andreev reflections in incoherent superconducting-normal-superconducting contacts. The theory, based on a stochastic path integral approach, is applied to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Pilgram , P. Samuelsson

It was pointed out by Tewari and Sau that chiral symmetry (H -> -H if e <-> h) of the Hamiltonian of electron-hole (e-h) excitations in an N-mode superconducting wire is associated with a topological quantum number Q\in\mathbb{Z} (symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 M. Diez , J. P. Dahlhaus , M. Wimmer , C. W. J. Beenakker

Andreev reflection, which corresponds to the tunneling of two electrons from a metallic lead to a superconductor lead as a Cooper pair (or vice versa), can be exploited to measure high frequency noise. A detector is proposed, which consists…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. K. T. Nguyen , T. Jonckheere , A. Crépieux , A. V. Nguyen , T. Martin

We analyze the rectification properties of voltage-biased Josephson junctions exhibiting the superconducting diode effect. Taking into account multiple Andreev reflection (MAR) processes in our scattering theory, we consider a short weak…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-18 A. Zazunov , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , B. Grémaud , T. Martin , R. Egger

Novel fermions with a pseudospin-1 structure can be realized as emergent quasiparticles in condensed matter systems. Here, we investigate its unusual properties during the Andreev reflection at a normal-metal/superconductor (NS) interface.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Xiaolong Feng , Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Zhongshui Ma , L. K. Ang , Yee Sin Ang , Shengyuan A. Yang