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Publications and source records attributed to A. Bednorz.
The current flowing from a superconductor to a two-terminal setup describing a nanostructure connected to normal-metal leads is studied. We provide an example of scattering matrix giving ideal splitting off electrons from a Cooper pair by means of Cauchy-Bunyakovsky-Schwarz inequality. The proposal of the junction and its possible variants are discussed in a context of possible experiments.
In the reduced one-dimensional description of the adsorption on the wedge-shaped substrate the mid-point interface height serves as the order parameter. We point at the ambiguity which appears in the transfer-matrix approach to this problem. We also propose how to avoid this problem by introducing the appropriate order parameter.
We propose a method to describe the short-distance behavior of an interface fluctuating in the presence of the wedge-shaped substrate near the critical filling transition. Two different length scales determined by the average height of the interface at the wedge center can be identified. On one length scale the one-dimensional approximation of Parry et al. \cite{Parry} which allows to find the interfacial critical exponents is extracted from the full description. On the other scale the short-distance fluctuations are analyzed by the mean-field theory.