Effect of charge renormalization on electric and thermo-electric transport along the vortex lattice of a Weyl superconductor

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Abstract

Building on the discovery that a Weyl superconductor in a magnetic field supports chiral Landau level motion along the vortex lines, we investigate its transport properties out of equilibrium. We show that the vortex lattice carries an electric current I=1/2(Q2eff/h)(Φ/Φ0)V between two normal metal contacts at voltage difference V, with Φ the magnetic flux through the system, Φ0 the superconducting flux quantum, and Qeff<e the renormalized charge of the Weyl fermions in the superconducting Landau level. Because the charge renormalization is energy dependent, a nonzero thermo-electric coefficient appears even in the absence of energy-dependent scattering processes.

*This project has received funding from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO/OCW), from the TUBITAK grant No. 114F163, and from the Eu-
ropean Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation pro- gramme.

Presenters

  • Gal Lemut

    • Leiden University

Authors

  • Gal Lemut

    • Leiden University
  • Michal Pacholski

    • Leiden University
    • Physics, Leiden University
  • Inanc Adagideli

    • Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University
    • Sabanci University
  • Carlo W J Beenakker

    • Leiden University
    • Physics, Leiden University