Andreev–Saint-James reflections: A probe of cuprate superconductors

G Deutscher - Reviews of modern physics, 2005‏ - APS
Electrical transport through a normal-metal/superconductor contact at biases smaller than
the energy gap can occur via the reflection of an electron as a hole of opposite wave vector …

Thermal conductivity across the phase diagram of cuprates: Low-energy quasiparticles and do** dependence of the superconducting gap

M Sutherland, DG Hawthorn, RW Hill, F Ronning… - Physical Review B, 2003‏ - APS
Heat transport in the cuprate superconductors YBa 2 Cu 3 O y and La 2− x Sr x CuO 4 was
measured at low temperatures as a function of do**. A residual linear term κ 0/T is …

Angle-resolved phase-sensitive determination of the in-plane gap symmetry in YBa2Cu3O7−δ

JR Kirtley, CC Tsuei, Ariando, CJM Verwijs… - Nature physics, 2006‏ - nature.com
Understanding the nature of the ground state and its low-lying excitations in the copper
oxide superconductors is a prerequisite for determining the origin of high-temperature …

Theory of enhanced proximity effect by midgap Andreev resonant state in diffusive normal-metal/triplet superconductor junctions

Y Tanaka, S Kashiwaya, T Yokoyama - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2005‏ - APS
Enhanced proximity effect by the midgap Andreev resonant state (MARS) in a diffusive
normal-metal/insulator/triplet superconductor (DN/TS) junction is studied based on the …

Theory of charge transport in diffusive normal metal/unconventional singlet superconductor contacts

Y Tanaka, YV Nazarov, AA Golubov, S Kashiwaya - Physical Review B, 2004‏ - APS
We analyze the transport properties of contacts between unconventional superconductor
and normal diffusive metal in the framework of the extended circuit theory. We obtain a …

Phenomenological theory of zero-energy Andreev resonant states

Y Asano, Y Tanaka, S Kashiwaya - Physical Review B, 2004‏ - APS
A conceptual consideration is given to a zero-energy state (ZES) at the surface of
unconventional superconductors. The reflection coefficients in normal-metal/superconductor …

/2-Josephson junction as a topological superconductor

Z Yang, S Qin, Q Zhang, C Fang, J Hu - Physical Review B, 2018‏ - APS
Superconducting states with broken time-reversal symmetry are rarely found in nature. Here
we predict that it is inevitable that the time-reversal symmetry is broken spontaneously in a …

What can Andreev bound states tell us about superconductors?

O Millo, G Koren - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Zero-energy Andreev bound states, which manifest themselves in the tunnelling spectra as
zero-bias conductance peaks (ZBCPs), are abundant at interfaces between …

Resonant proximity effect in normal metal/diffusive ferromagnet/superconductor junctions

T Yokoyama, Y Tanaka, AA Golubov - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2006‏ - APS
Resonant proximity effect in the normal metal/insulator/diffusive ferromagnet/insulator/s-
wave and d-wave superconductor (N/I/DF/I/S) junctions is studied for various regimes by …

Superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry: Spontaneous magnetization and quantum Hall effects

B Horovitz, A Golub - Physical Review B, 2003‏ - APS
Broken time-reversal symmetry (BTRS) in d+ id′ as well as in d+ is superconductors is
studied and is shown to yield current carrying surface states. We evaluate the temperature …