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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…

Using the highly inhomogeneous fields of a magnetic substrate, tunable junctions between superconducting and normal state regions were created inside a thin film superconductor. The investigation of these junctions, created in the same…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-29 J. Fritzsche , R. B. G. Kramer , V. V. Moshchalkov

Thermodynamic and transport properties of normal disordered conductors are strongly influenced by the proximity of a superconductor. A cooperation between mesoscopic coherence and Andreev scattering of particles from the superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Alexander Altland , B D Simons , D Taras-Semchuk

A new class of nano-structure devices is suggested, based on interference from the order parameter phase gradient of a single superconductor (S) in contact with a single normal metallic lead (N). By solving the Bogoliubov - de Gennes…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-15 P Cook , V C Hui , C J Lambert

We investigate heat and charge transport in NN'IS tunnel junctions in the diffusive limit. Here N and S are massive normal and superconducting electrodes (reservoirs), N' is a normal metal strip, and I is an insulator. The flow of electric…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 A. S. Vasenko , E. V. Bezuglyi , H. Courtois , F. W. J. Hekking

Modeling a normal/superconducting interface, we consider a semi-infinite wire whose edge is adjacent to a normal magnetic metal, assuming asymptotic convergence, away from the boundary, to the purely superconducting state. We obtain that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-20 Logan K. Hart , Yaniv Almog

We analyse the full counting statistics (FCS) of a superconducting junction in non-equilibrium in the limit of small interface transparency. In this limit we treat both supercurrent and multiple Andreev reflections on equal footing and show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 H. Soller

We study the transport properties of a NSN structure with an insulating barrier at each NS interface. Coherent quasiparticle scattering is assumed and self-consistency is implemented exactly to guarantee local charge conservation. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Sánchez-Cañizares , F. Sols

Differential conductance spectra are obtained from nanoscale junctions on the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$ along three major crystallographic orientations. Consistency and reproducibility of characteristic features among the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-04-29 W. K. Park , J. L. Sarrao , J. D. Thompson , L. H. Greene

We develop a theory of the conductance of superconductor/normal metal/superconductor junctions in the case where the superconducting order parameter has d-wave symmetry. At low temperature the conductance is proportional to the square root…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-19 D. A. Pesin , A. V. Andreev , B. Spivak

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

Nonlocal tunneling spectroscopy of multiterminal semiconductor-superconductor hybrid devices is a powerful tool to investigate the Andreev bound states below the parent superconducting gap. We examine how to exploit both microscopic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Andrea Maiani , Max Geier , Karsten Flensberg

We argue that the interpretation of the experiment [Nature Physics 21, 708-715 (2025)] is misleading in two respects. First, the bias voltages impact the non-local differential conductance randomly, rather than systematically, and the bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 E. S. Tikhonov , V. S. Khrapai

We present in this letter a theoretical analysis of the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of a hybrid normal-superconducting device consisting of a quantum dot and two electrodes that can be either normal or superconducting. We show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-23 Argo Nurbawono , Yuan Ping Feng , Erhai Zhao , Chun Zhang

This paper considers the conductance through a dirty junction between a normal conductor and a superconductor with an insulating barrier. It is shown that for large barrier resistances there is a relative enhancement of the conductance near…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Sungkit Yip

We theoretically analyze non-local electron transport in multi-terminal normal-metal-superconductor-normal-metal (NSN) devices in the presence of an external ac voltage bias. Our analysis reveals a number of interesting effects, such as,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-07-06 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

In a mesoscopic superconductor - normal metal - superconductor (SNS) heterostructure the quasiparticle distribution can be driven far from equilibrium by a voltage applied across the normal metal. This reduces the supercurrent between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank K. Wilhelm , Gerd Schön , Andrei D. Zaikin

Transport through a one-dimensional wire of interacting electrons connected to semi infinite leads is investigated using a bosonization approach. The dynamic nonlocal conductivity is rigorously expressed in terms of the transmission. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Inès Safi , H. J. Schulz

In this paper, we study the conductance and shot noise in transport through a multi-site system in a two terminal configuration. The dependence of the transport on the number of atoms in the atomic wire is investigated using a tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tae-Suk Kim , S. Hershfield

Tunneling conductance in diffusive normal metal / insulator / s-wave superconductor (DN/I/S) junctions is calculated for various situations by changing the magnitudes of the resistance and Thouless energy in DN and the transparency of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov , S. Kashiwaya