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We theoretically study the electronic transport through a ferromagnet-Ising superconductor junction. A tight-binding Hamiltonian describing the Ising superconductor is presented. Then by combing the non-equilibrium Green's function method,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-18 Peng Lv , Yan-Feng Zhou , Ning-Xuan Yang , Qing-Feng Sun

Andreev reflection (AR) in ferromagnet/superconductor junctions is an indispensable spectroscopic tool for measuring spin polarization. We study theoretically how the presence of a thin semiconducting interface in such junctions, inducing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-11 Andreas Costa , Alex Matos-Abiague , Jaroslav Fabian

The recent development of superconducting spintronics has revealed the spin-triplet superconducting proximity effect from a spin-singlet superconductor into a spin-polarized normal metal. In addition recently superconducting junctions using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Sadashige Matsuo , Kento Ueda , Shoji Baba , Hiroshi Kamata , Mizuki Tateno , Javad Shabani , Christopher J. Palmstrøm , Seigo Tarucha

We consider Andreev reflection in ferromagnet-superconductor junctions and extend the treatment by de Jong and Beenakker to incorporate the effect of a repulsive potential at the interface. We show the existence of a spin accumulation at a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Mélin , O. Bourgeois

Here we review the literature concerning measurement of the Andreev reflection between a superconductor (S) and ferromagnet (F), with particular attention to the case where the ferromagnet is a transition metal oxide. We discuss the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-03 Karen A Yates , Lesley F Cohen

We report on high-resolution differential conductance experiments on nanoscale superconductor/ferromagnet tunnel junctions with ultra-thin oxide tunnel barriers. We observe subgap conductance features which are symmetric with respect to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 F. Hübler , M. J. Wolf , T. Scherer , D. Wang , D. Beckmann , H. v. Löhneysen

We investigate conductances and current correlations in a system consisting of a normal multichannel conductor connected to one superconducting and two ferromagnetic electrodes. For antiparallel orientation of the ferromagnet polarizations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez , Peter Samuelsson , Markus Buttiker

We investigate Andreev reflection at the interface between a superconductor and a two--dimensional electron system (2DES) in an external magnetic field such that cyclotron motion is important in the latter. A finite Zeeman splitting in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Giazotto , M. Governale , U. Zuelicke , F. Beltram

Multiple Andreev reflections in voltage-biased Josephson junctions give rise to the subharmonic gap structure in the conductance, which is widely used to characterize transport properties and estimate the induced gap in the junctions. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 D. Kuiri , J. H. Correa , A. Biborski , M. P. Nowak

We study subgap transport in a ferromagnet-superconductor junction at low temperature due to Andreev reflection. The mismatch of spin polarized current in the ferromagnet and spinless current in the superconductor results in an additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Andreev reflection is a smart tool to investigate the spin polarisation P of the current through point contacts between a superconductor and a ferromagnet. We compare different models to extract P from experimental data and investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Bouvron , M. Stokmaier , M. Marz , G. Goll

We show theoretically that specular Andreev reflection occurs stably at altermagnet--superconductor interfaces, which is a phenomenon that has previously been predicted only in a limited range of materials, such as Dirac/Weyl materials with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Satoshi Ikegaya

As charge carriers traverse a single superconductor ferromagnet interface they experience an additional spin-dependent phase angle which results in spin mixing and the formation of a bound state called the Andreev Bound State. This state is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-29 K. A. Yates , D. Prabhakaran , M. Egilmez , J. W. A. Robinson , L. F. Cohen

We study the Josephson effect in a clean Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor junction for arbitrarily large spin polarizations. The Andreev reflection at a clean Ferromagnet-Superconductor interface is incomplete, and Andreev channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Cayssol , G. Montambaux

We study theoretically the differential conductance at a junction between a time reversal symmetry broken spin orbit coupled system with a tunable band gap and a superconductor. We look for spin-dependent Andreev reflection (i.e, sub-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Joanna Hutchinson , Arijit Kundu

We experimentally study electron transport across a single planar junction between the indium electrode and MnTe altermagnet candidate. We confirm standard Ohmic behavior with strictly linear current-voltage curves above the indium critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 D. Yu. Kazmin , V. D. Esin , Yu. S. Barash , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

We show that Andreev reflection in a junction between ferromagnetic (F) and superconducting (S) graphene regions is fundamentally different from the common FS junctions. For a weakly doped F graphene with an exchange field $h$ larger than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Malek Zareyan , Hakimeh Mohammadpour , Ali G. Moghaddam

The transport properties of a ferromagnet-superconductor (FS) junction are studied in a scattering formulation. Andreev reflection at the FS interface is strongly affected by the exchange interaction in the ferromagnet. The conductance G_FS…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-07 M. J. M. de Jong , C. W. J. Beenakker

Tunneling Magnetoresistance between two ferrromagnets is an issue of fundamental importance in spintronics. In this work, we show that tunneling magnetoresistance can also emerge in junctions composed of ferromagnets and time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

We theoretically demonstrate unusual features of superconducting proximity effect in gapped graphene which presents a pseudospin symmetry-broken ferromagnet with a net pseudomagnetization. We find that the presence of a band gap makes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan