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arxiv: 1911.04388 · v2 · pith:FOCBNRQCnew · submitted 2019-11-11 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con · cond-mat.mes-hall

Finite bulk Josephson currents and chirality blockade removal from inter-orbital pairing in magnetic Weyl semimetals

classification ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.mes-hall
keywords pairingblockadechiralitywavebulkconventionalfiniteinter-orbital
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Magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have been presumed to be immune to proximity-induced spin-singlet superconducting pairing due to a chirality blockade of the regular Andreev reflection. In this work we study all possible superconducting pairing induced in a WSM sandwiched between two conventional superconductors in a Josephson junction setup. We confirm that, while conventional intra-orbital $s$-wave pairing is present on the surface of the WSM, it cannot propagate into the bulk due to the chirality blockade. However, inter-orbital $s$-wave pairing, with both even-frequency spin-singlet and odd-frequency mixed-spin triplet symmetry, propagates into the bulk of the WSM, as do several $p$-wave symmetries. To demonstrate the importance of these finite inter-orbital and $p$-wave pair amplitudes in an experimental setup, we calculate the Josephson current and find a finite and even increasing current when the chirality blockade effect for the conventional intra-orbital pairing is enhanced.

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