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Smearing of electron density of states in quasi-one-dimensional superconducting channels due to quantum phase fluctuations
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 2018. Vol. 459. P. 356-358.
Quasi-one-dimensional superconducting channels host sound-like plasma modes propagating along the
which are associated with fluctuations of the phase of the superconducting order parameter (Mooiji and
1985) [5]. Interaction between these electromagnetic excitations and charge carriers affects the electron density
of states (DOS). I-V characteristics of tunnel S1-I-S2 junctions, where superconducting S2 electrode
nanowire in the regime of quantum fluctuations have been studied. The observed broadening of the I-V dependencies
at the gap edge is interpreted as the renormalization of DOS. The results are in reasonable agreement
with the model, taking into consideration plasma modes in quasi-one-dimensional superconductors.
M. : Faculty of Physics, MSU, 2017
The Low Temperature Physics Conference is an international event held every three years, under the auspices of the IUPAP through its Commission C5 on Low Temperature Physics. The aim of these conferences is to exchange information and views among the members of the international scientific community in the general field of Low Temperature Physics. It ...
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Temu E., Lahteenmaki P., Golubev D. et al., Journal of Low Temperature Physics 2017 Vol. 189 P. 204-216
We have employed noise thermometry for investigations of thermal relaxation
between the electrons and the substrate in nanowires patterned from 40-nm-thick
titanium film on top of silicon wafers covered by a native oxide. By controlling the
electronic temperature Te by Joule heating at the base temperature of a dilution refrigerator,
we probe the electron–phonon coupling and the thermal boundary ...
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Arutyunov K., Lehtinen J. S., Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 2020 Vol. 11 P. 417-420
Chain of superconductor-insulator-superconductor junctions based on Al-AlOx-Al... lift-off fabricated nanostructures was measured at ultra-low temperatures. At zero magnetic field the low current bias dynamic resistance can reach values ~1011 W. The system has been proved to provide a decent quality current biasing circuit enabling observation of Coulomb blockade and Bloch oscillations in ultra-narrow Ti nanowires ...
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Shein K., Zarudneva A., Emel’yanova V. et al., Physics of the Solid State 2020 Vol. 62 No. 9 P. 1539-1542
The transport properties of two types of quasi-one-dimensional superconducting microstructures were investigated at ultra-low temperatures: the narrow channels close-packed in the shape of meander, and the chains of tunneling contacts "superconductor-insulator-superconductor." Both types of the microstructures demonstrated high value of high-frequency impedance and-or the dynamic resistance. The study opens up potential for using of such ...
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Arutyunov K., M. : Lebedev Institute, 2017
Superconducting properties of metallic nanowires can be entirely different from those of bulk superconductors because of the dominating role played by thermal and quantum fluctuations of the order parameter. For superconducting channels with diameters below ∼ 50 nm fluctuations of the phase of the complex order parameter - the phase slippage - lead to non-zero ...
Added: October 1, 2017
Averin D. V., Wang G., A.S. Vasenko, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2020 Vol. 102 No. 14 P. 144516-1-144516-6
We extend the basic theory of Andreev reflection (AR) in a normal metal/superconductor junction to the situation with an arbitrary time-dependent bias voltage V(t) across the junction. The central element of the theory is the fact that the Fourier transform of the AR amplitude has a casual structure. As an example, the theory is used to describe ...
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Shapiro D., Mirlin A., Shnirman A., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2021 Vol. 104 No. 3 Article 035434
We consider an interferometer based on artificially induced topological superconductivity and chiral one-dimensional (1D) Majorana fermions. The (nontopological) superconducting island inducing the superconducting correlations in the topological substrate is assumed to be floating. This allows probing the physics of interfering Majorana modes via microwave response, i.e., the frequency-dependent impedance between the island and the earth. ...
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Galaktionov A. V., Golubev D. S., Zaikin Andrei D., European Physical Journal: Special Topics 2019 Vol. 227 No. 15/16 P. 2001-2012
We analyze a trade-o between thermal activation (TA) and quantum tunneling in the problem of supercurrent decay in superconducting junctions with highly transparent barriers. In such systems -- unlike in conventional tunnel junctions -- the supercurrent decay is essentially influenced by low energy Andreev levels forming an intrinsic quantum dissipative environment for the Josephson particle. ...
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Semenov A. G., Zaikin A., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2019 Vol. 99 No. 9 P. 094516-1-094516-9
We work out a microscopic theory describing complete statistics of voltage fluctuations generated by quantum phase slips (QPS) in superconducting nanowires. We evaluate the cumulant generating function and demonstrate that shot noise of the voltage as well as the thir d and all higher voltage cumulants differ from zero only due to the presence of ...
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Curran P., Kim J., Satchell N. et al., Applied Physics Letters 2015 Vol. 107 P. 262602-262602
We demonstrate that the magnetic state of a superconducting spin valve, that is normally controlled with an external magnetic field, can also be manipulated by varying the temperature which increases the functionality and flexibility of such structures as switching elements. In this case, switching is driven by changes in the magnetostatic energy due to spontaneous ...
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Stroganov P. L., Ya. V. Fominov, / Cornell University. Series cond-mat "arxiv.org". 2017. No. arXiv:1708.05089.
We consider ballistic SQUIDs with spin filtering inside half-metallic ferromagnetic arms. A singlet Cooper pair cannot pass through an arm in this case, so the Josephson current is entirely due to the Cooper pair splitting, with two electrons going to different interferometer arms. In order to elucidate the mechanisms of Josephson transport due to split ...
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Denisov A., Bubis A., Piatrusha S. et al., Nanomaterials 2022 Vol. 12 No. 9 Article 1461
Mesoscopic superconductivity deals with various quasiparticle excitation modes, only one of them—the charge-mode—being directly accessible for conductance measurements due to the imbalance in populations of quasi-electron and quasihole excitation branches. Other modes carrying heat or even spin, valley etc. currents populate the branches equally and are charge-neutral, which makes them much harder to control. This ...
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Dolgirev P. E., Kalenkov M. S., Tarkhov A. et al., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2019 Vol. 100 No. 054511 P. 1-11
We present a detailed theoretical description of quantum coherent electron transport in voltage-biased
crosslike Andreev interferometers.Making use of the charge conjugation symmetry encoded in the quasiclassical
formalism, we elucidate a crucial role played by geometric and electron-hole asymmetries in these structures.
We argue that a nonvanishing Aharonov-Bohm-like contribution to the current IS flowing in the superconducting
contour may develop ...
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Bubis A. V., E. V. Shpagina, Nasibulin A. G. et al., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2021 Vol. 104 No. 12 Article 125409
We investigate diffusive nanowire-based structures with two normal terminals on the sides and a central
superconducting island in the middle, which is either grounded or floating. Using a semiclassical calculation
we demonstrate that both device layouts permit a quantitative measurement of the energy dependent subgap
thermal conductance Gth from the spectral density of the current noise. In the ...
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Averin D. V., Wang G., Vasenko A.S., / Cornell University. Series cond-mat "arxiv.org". 2020. No. 2007.07483.
We extend the basic theory of Andreev reflection (AR) in a normal metal/superconductor junction to the situation with an arbitrary time-dependent bias voltage V(t) across the junction. The central element of the theory is the fact that the Fourier transform of the AR amplitude has a casual structure. As an example, the theory is used to describe ...
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Arutyunov K., Уфа : Уфа: НИЦ «Аэтерна», 2020, 2020
Quantum fluctuations of the order parameter in quasi-1D-superconductors ...
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П.А.Иоселевич, Чукланов Д. А., Письма в Журнал экспериментальной и теоретической физики 2021 Т. 113 № 10 С. 661-668
Рассматривается длинный диффузный контакт Джозефсона, слабой связью в котором является тонкий бислой нормальный металл (N)–ферромагнетик (F), так что N и F образуют параллельные связи между сверхпроводниками S. Показано, что сверхпроводимость в такой слабой связи описывается эффективным одномерным уравнением Узаделя, содержащим ослабленное обменное поле, а также распаривающий член. Механизм распаривания основан на неотъемлемой неоднородности бислоя и ...
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Андрияхина Е. С., Burmistrov I., Журнал экспериментальной и теоретической физики 2022 Т. 162 № 4 С. 522-540
The interplay of Anderson localization and electron-electron interactions is known to lead to enhancement of superconductivity due to multifractality of electron wave functions. We develop the theory of multifractally-enhanced superconducting states in two-dimensional systems in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Using the Finkel'stein nonlinear sigma model, we derive the modified Usadel and gap equations that ...
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Ioselevich P., Chuklanov D. A., JETP Letters 2021 Vol. 113 P. 631-637
We consider a long diffusive Josephson junction where the weak link is a thin (normal metal (N)–ferromagnet (F)) bilayer (N and F form parallel links between superconductors (Ss)). We show that superconductivity in the weak link can be described by an effective one-dimensional Usadel equation containing a “diluted” exchange field as well as a weak ...
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Radkevich A., Semenov A. G., Zaikin A., European Physical Journal: Special Topics 2019 Vol. 227 No. 15-16 P. 2289-2295
We investigate the influence of quantum phase fluctuations on electron density of states (DOS) in ultrathin superconducting films and nanowires. Using an effective action approach we derive a non-perturbative correction to DOS in such systems. The main effect of phase fluctuations in quasi-two-dimensional films is the appearance of electron states at subgap energies while in ...
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K. Yu. Arutyunov, Lehtinen J. S., Radkevich A. A. et al., Physics of the Solid State 2017 Vol. 59 No. 11 P. 2110-2113
The current–voltage characteristics of superconductor–insulator–semiconductor (S1–I–S2)
tunnel junctions, where superconducting electrode S2 is a thin nanowire, are studied experimentally. The
observed blurring of the gap singularities is interpreted as a manifestation of the order parameter quantum
fluctuations. We propose a model taking into account the broadening of the density of states due to the interaction
of electrons with the ...
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Arutyunov K., Lehtinen J. S., Радкевич А. А. et al., Физика твердого тела 2017 Т. 59 № 11 С. 2092-2094
The current–voltage characteristics of superconductor–insulator–semiconductor (S1–I–S2)
tunnel junctions, where superconducting electrode S2 is a thin nanowire, are studied experimentally. The
observed blurring of the gap singularities is interpreted as a manifestation of the order parameter quantum
fluctuations. We propose a model taking into account the broadening of the density of states due to the interaction
of electrons with the ...
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Радкевич А., Semenov A. G., Zaikin A., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2019 Vol. 100 No. 014520 P. 014520-1-014520-7
The quantum behavior of superconducting nanowires may essentially depend on the employed experimental setup. Here we investigate a setup that enables passing equilibrium supercurrent across an arbitrary segment of the wire without restricting fluctuations of its superconducting phase. The low temperature physics of the system is determined by a combined effect of collective soundlike plasma ...
Added: September 12, 2019