Publications de Jacob Senkpiel

Extracting transport channel transmissions in scanning tunneling microscopy using superconducting excess current

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Jacob Senkpiel

Transport through quantum coherent conductors, such as atomic junctions, is described by conduction channels. Information about the number of channels and their transmissions can be extracted from various sources, such as multiple Andreev reflections, dyna ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Spin-dependent tunneling between individual superconducting bound states

Klaus Kern, Jacob Senkpiel, Haonan Huang

Magnetic impurities on superconductors induce discrete bound levels inside the superconducting gap, known as Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states. YSR levels are fully spin polarized such that the tunneling between YSR states depends on their relative spin orient ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Quantum phase transitions and the role of impurity-substrate hybridization in Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states

Klaus Kern, Jacob Senkpiel, Haonan Huang

Spin-dependent scattering from magnetic impurities inside a superconductor gives rise to Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states within the superconducting gap. They can be modeled by the largely equivalent Kondo or Anderson impurity models. The role of the magnetic ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

Single channel Josephson effect in a high transmission atomic contact

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Jacob Senkpiel

The Josephson effect in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is an excellent tool to probe the properties of a superconductor on a local scale. We use atomic manipulation in a low temperature STM to create mesoscopic single channel contacts and study the Jo ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Robustness of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov resonances in the presence of a complex superconducting order parameter

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Jacob Senkpiel

Robust quantum systems rely on having a protective environment with minimized relaxation channels. Super-conducting gaps play an important role in the design of such environments. The interaction of localized single spins with a conventional superconductor ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy with Superconducting Junctions : From Single Channel Transport to Local Pair Breaking Potentials

Jacob Senkpiel

This thesis contains two major topics, the restriction of tunneling to only a few channels in the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and the interaction of local magnetic impurities with superconductivity. At a temperature of 15mK, the quantum back-action ...

EPFL2018