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Tunneling conductance spectroscopy in normal metal-superconductor junctions is an important tool for probing Andreev bound states in mesoscopic superconducting devices, such as Majorana nanowires. In an ideal superconducting device, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 André Melo , Chun-Xiao Liu , Piotr Rożek , Tómas Örn Rosdahl , Michael Wimmer

We study the effect of the Coulomb interaction on the local density of states (LDOS) and its Fourier component in disordered cuprates. It is shown that the Coulomb interaction suppresses strongly the maximum value of the LDOS induced by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Degang Zhang

We analyze the effect of electron-electron interactions on Andreev current and shot noise in diffusive hybrid structures composed of a normal metal attached to a superconductor via a weakly transmitting interface. We demonstrate that at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin

Nonmagnetic disorder is shown to quench the screening of magnetic moments in metals, the Kondo effect. The probability that a magnetic moment remains free down to zero temperature is found to increase with disorder strength. Experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Kettemann , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

We describe the superconducting proximity effect taking place in a contact between a noncentrosymmetric superconductor and a diffusive normal/ferromagnetic metal within the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. By solving numerically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-26 Gaetano Annunziata , Dirk Manske , Jacob Linder

We derive an effective action for contacts between superconducting terminals with arbitrary transmission distribution of conducting channels. In the case of normal-superconducting (NS) contacts we evaluate interaction correction to Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin

We have measured the tunneling density of states (DOS) in a superconductor carrying a supercurrent or exposed to an external magnetic field. The pair correlations are weakened by the supercurrent, leading to a modification of the DOS and to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Anthore , H. Pothier , D. Esteve

Single-electron tunneling through a zero-dimensional state in an asymmetric double-barrier resonant-tunneling structure is studied. The broadening of steps in the $I$--$V$ characteristics is found to strongly depend on the polarity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 J. Könemann , B. Kubala , J. König , R. J. Haug

A theory of the proximity effect in normal metal - multiband superconductor hybrid structures is formulated within the quasiclassical Green's function formalism. It is shown that the existence of multiple superconducting bands manifests…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Brinkman , A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

The performance of many superconducting devices is degraded in presence of non-equilibrium quasiparticles in the superconducting part. One promising approach towards their evacuation is the use of normal-metal quasiparticle traps, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 R. P. Schmit , F. K. Wilhelm

The Coulomb drag effect arises due to electron-electron interactions, when two metallic conductors are placed in close vicinity to each other. It manifests itself as a charge current or voltage drop induced in one of the conductors, if the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Artem Borin , Ines Safi , Eugene Sukhorukov

We study the tunneling transport through a nanojunction in the far-from-equilibrium regime at relatively low temperatures. We show that the current-voltage characteristics is significantly modified as compared to the usual quasi-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-25 A. Glatz , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , I. S. Beloborodov

We consider a system of two-dimensional electrons strongly localized by disorder. Interactions create a gap in the average tunneling density of states $\nu(E)$ at energies, E, close to the Fermi level. We derive a system of self-consistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ya. M. Blanter , M. E. Raikh

The influence of disorder, both structural (non-diagonal) and on-site (diagonal), is studied through the inhomogeneous Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) theory in narrow-band disordered superconductors with a view towards understanding…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-04 R. McIntosh , N. Mohanta , A. Taraphder , S. Bhattacharyya

We theoretically investigate the consequences of proximity-induced conventional superconductivity in metals that break time-reversal and inversion symmetries through their energy dispersion. We discover behaviors impossible in an isolated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-21 Pavan Hosur , Daniel Palacios

Recently there have been several proposals of materials predicted to be nodal-ring semimetals, where zero energy excitations are characterized by a nodal ring in the momentum space. This class of materials falls between the Dirac-like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-03 Yejin Huh , Eun-Gook Moon , Yong Baek Kim

We present a general theory of the superconductive proximity effect in disordered normal--superconducting (N-S) structures, based on the recently developed Keldysh action approach. In the case of the absence of interaction in the normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Skvortsov , A. I. Larkin , M. V. Feigel'man

We study the effects a strong Coulomb disorder on the transverse magnetoresistance in Weyl semimetals at low temperatures. Using the diagrammatic technique and the Keldysh model to sum up the leading terms in the diagrammatic expansion, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Ya. I. Rodionov , K. I. Kugel , B. A. Aronzon

In two-dimensional Dirac semimetals, Cooper pairing instability occurs only when the attractive interaction strength $|u|$ is larger than some critical value $|u_{c}|$ because the density of states vanishes at Dirac points. Disorders…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-17 Jing Wang , Peng-Lu Zhao , Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu

Motivated by evidence of local electron-electron attraction in experiments on disordered insulating films, we propose a new two-component Coulomb glass model that combines strong disorder and long-range Coulomb repulsion with the additional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-30 Joe Mitchell , Anirban Gangopadhyay , Victor Galitski , Markus Mueller