Published March 25, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Proximity effect of s-wave superconductor on an inversion-broken Weyl semimetal

  • 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.

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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

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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