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Giant oscillations of the conductance of a superconductor - ferromagnet - superconductor Andreev interferometer are predicted. The effect is due to the resonant transmission of normal electrons through Andreev levels when the voltage $V$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Kadigrobov , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson , Z. Ivanov , T. Claeson

We investigate Aharonov-Bohm-type oscillations of the thermopower of a quantum dot embedded in a ring for the case when the interaction between electrons can be neglected. The thermopower is shown to be strongly flux dependent, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ya. M. Blanter , C. Bruder , Rosario Fazio , Herbert Schoeller

We investigate the properties of complex mesoscopic superconducting-normal hybrid devices, Andreev-Interferometers in the case, where the current is proped through a superconducting tunneling contact whereas the proximity effect is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. K. Wilhelm , A. A. Golubov

The temperature dependence of the thermoelectric power, S(T), and the electrical resistivity of the magnetically ordered CeRu_2Ge_2 (T_N=8.55 K and T_C=7.40 K) were measured for pressures p < 16 GPa in the temperature range 1.2 K < T < 300…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Wilhelm , D. Jaccard

An Aharonov-Bohm interferometer (ABI) carrying a quantum dot on one of its arms is analyzed. It is found that the Kondo temperature of the device depends strongly on the magnetic flux penetrating the ring. As a result, mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pascal Simon , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

Thermoelectric effects are studied in an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer with an embedded quantum dot in the Kondo regime. The AB flux-dependent transmission probability has an asymmetrical shape arising from the Fano interference between…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tae-Suk Kim , S. Hershfield

We study electron decoherence by measuring the temperature dependence of Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations in quasi-1D rings, etched in a high-mobility GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructure. The oscillation amplitude is influenced both by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. E. Hansen , A. Kristensen , S. Pedersen , C. B. Sorensen , P. E. Lindelof

We studied iron-based superconductors of various families with critical temperatures covering almost all range $T_C = 9 - 53$ K. In natural arrays of contacts formed in these materials we observed intrinsic multiple Andreev reflections…

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

We report the realization and investigation of a ballistic Andreev interferometer based on an InAs two dimensional electron gas coupled to a superconducting Nb loop. We observe strong magnetic modulations in the voltage drop across the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-06-25 M. Amado , A. Fornieri , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto

We develop a detailed theory describing a non-trivial interplay between non-equilibrium effects and long-range quantum coherence in superconducting hybrid nanostructures exposed to a temperature gradient. We establish a direct relation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-05 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We discuss the phase dependent nonlocal thermoelectric effect in a topological Josephson junction in contact with a normal-metal probe. We show that, due to the helical nature of topological edge states, nonlocal thermoelectricity is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Gianmichele Blasi , Fabio Taddei , Liliana Arrachea , Matteo Carrega , Alessandro Braggio

We develop a quasiclassical theory of Andreev interferometers with three superconducting electrodes. Provided tunneling interface resistance between one superconducting electrode and the normal metal strongly exceeds two others, significant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin , L. S Kuzmin

In an unconventional superconductor, the interplay of scattering off impurities and Andreev processes may lead to different scattering times for electronlike and holelike quasiparticles. Such electron-hole asymmetry appears when the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-15 Kevin Marc Seja , Louhane Jacob , Tomas Löfwander

Andreev interferometry - the sensitivity of the tunneling current to spatial variations in the local superconducting order at an interface - is proposed as a probe of the spatial structure of the phase correlations in the pseudogap state of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel E. Sheehy , Paul M. Goldbart , Joerg Schmalian , Ali Yazdani

Employing quasiclassical theory of superconductivity combined with Keldysh technique we investigate large thermoelectric effect in multiterminal ballistic normal-superconducting (NS) hybrid structures. We argue that this effect is caused by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-01 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We consider a mesoscopic four-terminal superconductor/normal metal (S/N) structure in the presence of a temperature gradient along the N wire. A thermoemf arises in this system even in the absence of the thermoelectric quasiparticle current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. F. Volkov , V. V. Pavlovskii

The effect of scattering of conduction electrons by dynamical spin fluctuations on the thermopower in metals near a thermal phase transition into an antiferromagnetic phase is considered. We are interested in a transition at room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Peter Wölfle , Timothy Ziman

We investigate nonequilibrium noise in a diffusive Andreev interferometer, in which currents emerging from two Normal metal/Superconductor (N-S) interfaces can interfere. We observe a modulation of the shot noise when the phase difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Reulet , A. A. Kozhevnikov , D. E. Prober , W. Belzig , Yu. V. Nazarov

We present a detailed theoretical description of quantum coherent electron transport in voltage-biased cross-like Andreev interferometers. Making use of the charge conjugation symmetry encoded in the quasiclassical formalism, we elucidate a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-21 Pavel E. Dolgirev , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei E. Tarkhov , Andrei D. Zaikin