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The electronic structure of the giant vortex states in a mesoscopic superconducting disk is studied in a dirty limit using the Usadel approach. The local density of states profiles are shown to be strongly affected by the effect of…

We calculate the AC linear response of a superconductor in a nonequilibrium electronic state. The nonequilibrium state is produced by injecting quasiparticles into the superconductor from normal leads through asymmetric tunnel contacts. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-18 G. Catelani , L. I. Glazman , K. E. Nagaev

We study coherent transport and bound-state formation of Bogoliubov quasiparticles in a high-mobility In$_{0.75}%$Ga$_{0.25}$As two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) coupled to a superconducting Nb electrode by means of a quantum point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 Hiroshi Irie , Clemens Todt , Norio Kumada , Yuichi Harada , Hiroki Sugiyama , Tatsushi Akazaki , Koji Muraki

The purpose of the paper is to suggest a new method which allows one to study multiple coherent reflection/transmissions by partially transparent interfaces (e.g. in multi-layer mesoscopic structures or grain boundaries in high-Tc's) in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Shelankov , M. Ozana

We investigate the interplay between the quantum Hall (QH) effect and superconductivity in InAs surface quantum well (SQW)/NbTiN heterostructures using a quantum point contact (QPC). We use QPC to control the proximity of the edge states to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Mehdi Hatefipour , Joseph J. Cuozzo , Ido Levy , William M. Strickland , Dylan Langone , Enrico Rossi , Javad Shabani

The consequences of localized, classical magnetic moments in superconductors are explored and their effect on the spectral properties of the intragap bound states is studied. Above a critical moment, a localized quasiparticle excitation in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 M. I. Salkola , A. V. Balatsky , J. R. Schrieffer

We discuss a number of basic physical mechanisms relevant to the formation of the proximity effect in superconductor/normal metal (SN) systems. Specifically, we review why the proximity effect sharply discriminates between systems with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Taras-Semchuk , Alexander Altland

At a normal-metal/superconductor interface, an incident electron from the normal-metal (N) side can be normally reflected as an electron or Andreev reflected as a hole. We show that pronounced lateral shifts along the interface between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Hua Jiang , Shengyuan A. Yang

Quasiparticle properties in the superconducting state are masked by the superfluid and are not directly accessible to infrared spectroscopy. We show how one can use a Kramers--Kronig transformation to separate the quasiparticle from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-23 S. V. Dordevic , D. van der Marel , C. C. Homes

We study impurity scattering in the normal and d-wave superconducting states of line nodal semimetals and show that, due to additional scattering phase space available for impurities on the surface, the quasiparticle interference pattern…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-03 Chandan Setty , Philip W. Phillips , Awadhesh Narayan

We present a theory of the current-voltage characteristics in diffusive superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor junctions. By solving the time-dependent Usadel equations we are able to describe the phase-coherent transport for arbitrary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. C. Cuevas , J. Hammer , J. Kopu , J. K. Viljas , M. Eschrig

We study the spatio-temporal evolution of wave packets in one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattices which localize linear waves. Nonlinearity (related to two-body interactions) has destructive effect on localization, as recently observed for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-02-26 Marco Larcher , Tetyana V. Laptyeva , Joshua D. Bodyfelt , Franco Dalfovo , Michele Modugno , Sergej Flach

We analyze non-local effects in electron transport across three-terminal normal-superconducting-normal (NSN) structures. Subgap electrons entering S-electrode from one N-metal may form Cooper pairs with their counterparts penetrating from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-06-13 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

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

The location of electrons governs phenomena ranging from chemical bonding and electric polarization to the topological classification of band insulators and the emergence of correlated states in quantum matter. While a prescription exists…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Haylen Gerhard , Yifan Wang , Alexander Cerjan , Wladimir A. Benalcazar

Electrons in two dimensions and strong magnetic fields effectively lose their kinetic energy and display exotic behavior dominated by Coulomb forces. When the ratio of electrons to magnetic flux quanta in the system is near 5/2, the unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Vivek Venkatachalam , Amir Yacoby , Loren Pfeiffer , Ken West

Weakly interacting quasiparticles play a central role in the low-energy description of many phases of quantum matter. At higher energies, however, quasiparticles cease to be well-defined in generic many-body systems due to a proliferation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-12 Anushya Chandran , Thomas Iadecola , Vedika Khemani , Roderich Moessner

From an experimental point of view, quasielectrons and quasiholes play very similar roles in the fractional quantum Hall effect. Nevertheless, the theoretical description of quasielectrons is known to be much harder than the one of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-20 Anne E. B. Nielsen , Ivan Glasser , Ivan D. Rodriguez

We present a theoretical analysis of the proximity effect at a graphene-superconductor interface. We use a tight-binding model for the electronic states in this system which allows to describe the interface at the microscopic level. Two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Burset , A. L. Yeyati , A. Martín-Rodero

We construct a class of systems for which quantum dynamics can be expanded around a mean field approximation with essentially classical content. The modulus of the quantum overlap of mean field states naturally introduces a classical…