Proximity effect of -wave superconductor on an inversion-broken Weyl semimetal
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
Description
Inducing superconductivity in systems with unconventional band structures is a promising approach for realizing unconventional superconductivity. Of particular interest are single-interface or Josephson junction architectures involving Weyl semimetals (WSM), which are predicted to host odd-parity, potentially topological, superconducting states. These expectations rely crucially on the tunneling of electronic states at the interface between the two systems. In this study, we revisit the question of induced superconductivity in an inversion-broken WSM via quantum tunneling, treating the interface as an effective potential barrier. We determine the conditions under which the gap function couples to the Weyl physics and its properties within the WSM. Our simulations show that the mismatch in the nature of the low-energy electronic states leads to a rapid decay of the superconductivity within the semimetal.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.094517;
- arXiv
- arXiv:2312.00187;
- Crossref Funder ID
- 10.13039/100000001;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review B
- Journal Volume
- 109
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Journal Page Range
- 10 pgs.
- ISSN
- 1550-235X
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Subject category
- S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BAND THEORY; DIFFUSION BARRIERS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; INTERFACES; JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; PARITY; POTENTIALS; PROXIMITY EFFECT; S WAVES; SEMIMETALS; SIMULATION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SUPERCONDUCTORS; TOPOLOGY; TUNNEL EFFECT
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; ELEMENTS; MATHEMATICS; PARTIAL WAVES; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SUPERCONDUCTING JUNCTIONS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- ©2024 American Physical Society
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- 2138259; 2138286; 2138307; 2137603; 2138296; ACI-1548562; ACI-1928147
- Notes
- Contact Email: robert.dawson001@ucr.edu; Contact Email: vivek.aji@ucr.edu; Record automatically processed
- Funding organization
- National Science Foundation