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Da Wang1,2, Evan J Telford1, Avishai Benyamini1,2
1Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States.
Abstract:
Hybrid superconductor/graphene (SC/g) junctions are excellent candidates for investigating correlations between Cooper pairs and quantum Hall (QH) edge modes. Experimental studies are challenging as Andreev reflections are extremely sensitive to junction disorder, and high magnetic fields are required to form QH edge states. We fabricated low-resistance SC/g interfaces, composed of graphene edge contacted with NbN with a barrier strength of Z ≈ 0.4, that remain superconducting under magnetic fields larger than 18 T. We establish the role of graphene's Dirac band structure on zero-field Andreev reflections and demonstrate dynamic tunability of the Andreev reflection spectrum by moving the boundary between specular and retro Andreev reflections with parallel magnetic fields. Through the application of perpendicular magnetic fields, we observe an oscillatory suppression of the 2-probe conductance in the ν = 4 Landau level attributed to the reduced efficiency of Andreev processes at the NbN/g interface, consistent with theoretical predictions.
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