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The properties of semiconductors, insulators, and photonic crystals are defined by their electronic or photonic bands, and the gaps between them. When the material is disordered, Lifshitz tails appear: these are localized states that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-18 Jonas F. Karcher , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Mikael C. Rechtsman

We have investigated theoretically the conductance of a Normal-Superconductor point-contact in the tunnel limit and analyzed the quantum interference effects originating from the scattering of quasiparticles by point-like defects.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ye. S. Avotina , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , J. M. van Ruitenbeek

The energy of an Andreev bound state in a clean normal metal in contact with two superconductors disperses with the difference $\Delta \phi$ in the superconducting phase between the superconductors in much the same way as the energies of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-25 Venkat Chandrasekhar

We study the density of states (DOS) inside superconducting Josephson SIsFS junctions with complex interlayer consisting of a thin superconducting spacer 's' between insulator I and a ferromagnetic metal F. The consideration is focused on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-11 S. V. Bakurskiy , A. A. Neilo , N. V. Klenov , I. I. Soloviev , A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

We have made an experimental study of the tunneling density of states (DOS) in strong ferromagnetic thin films (CoFe) in proximity with a thick superconducting film (Nb) as a function of $d_F$, the ferromagnetic thickness. Remarkably, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Serge Reymond , Paul SanGiorgio , M. R. Beasley , Jinho Kim , Tesu Kim , Kookrin Char

The Thouless conjecture states that the average conductance of a disordered metallic sample in the diffusive regime can be related to the sensitivity of the sample's spectrum to a change in the boundary conditions. Here we present results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Braun , E. Hofstetter , G. Montambaux , A. MacKinnon

We suggest a straightforward and unambiguous test to identify possible opposite signs of superconducting order parameter in different bands proposed for iron-based superconductors (s+- state). We consider proximity effect in a weakly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-10-25 A. E. Koshelev , V. Stanev

We develop a theory of a pseudogap state appearing near the superconductor-insulator transition in strongly disordered metals with attractive interaction. We show that such an interaction combined with the fractal nature of the single…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael V. Feigel'man , Lev B. Ioffe , Emil A. Yuzbashyan

We have found that the local density of states fluctuations (LDOSF) in a disordered metal, detected using an impurity in the barrier as a spectrometer, undergo enhanced (with respect to SdH and dHvA effects) oscillations in strong magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. Holder , A. K. Savchenko , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , B. Jouault , G. Faini , F. Laruelle , E. Bedel

The quasiparticle local density of states (LDOS) is studied in clean NS and SNS junctions with increasing transverse size, from quasi-one-dimensional to three-dimensional. It is shown that finite transverse dimensions are related to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Blaauboer , R. T. W. Koperdraad , A. Lodder , D. Lenstra

We have measured the evolution of the tunneling density of states (DOS) in superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) bilayers with increasing F-layer thickness, where F in our experiment is the strong ferromagnet Ni. As a function of increasing Ni…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 Kurt M. Boden , W. P. Pratt , Norman O. Birge

We study the proximity coherence in a mesoscopic normal-metal film (N) in contact with a superconductor (S). Accounting for a repulsive interaction between the electrons in the normal metal, we find an enhanced local density of states close…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. L. Fauchere , W. Belzig , G. Blatter

We study the basic features of the local density of states (LDOS) observed in STM experiments on high-T$_c$ d-wave superconductors in the context of a minimal model of a d-wave superconductor which has {\it weakly} modulated off-diagonal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 Dimitrios Galanakis , Stefanos Papanikolaou

Transmission of the scalar field through the random medium, represented by the system of randomly distributed dielectric cylinders is calculated numerically. System is mapped to the problem of electronic transport in disordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 P. Markos , C. M. Soukoulis

It is shown that the local density of states (LDOS), measured in an Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) experiment, at a single tip position contains oscillations as a function of Energy, due to quasiparticle interference, which is related…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Sumiran Pujari , C. L. Henley

This paper constructs the mapping relation from density of states (DOS) to UV-vis spectra by using an ab initio perspective. Taking BiOIO3 semiconductor photocatalyst as an example, the experimental verification was also carried out. The…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-26 Yang Ling , Zhengxin Chen , Jiang Wu

We consider the problem of electron transport along a one-dimensional disordered multiple-scattering conductor, and study the electron density for all the electronic levels. A model is proposed for the reduced density matrix of the system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-14 Gerardo Rivas , Miztli Yepez , Pier A. Mello

The multifractal superconducting state originates from the interplay of Anderson localization and interaction effects. In this article we overview the recent theory of the superconductivity enhancement by multifractality and extend it to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 I. S. Burmistrov , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We present a general theory of the proximity effect in junctions between diffusive normal metals (DN) and unconventional superconductors in the framework of the quasiclassical Green's function formalism. Various possible symmetry classes in…

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

On the basis of the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity, we obtain a formula for the local density of states (LDOS) around a vortex core of superconductors with anisotropic pair-potential and Fermi surface in arbitrary directions of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuki Nagai , Yosuke Ueno , Yusuke Kato , Nobuhiko Hayashi