Topological Andreev bands in multiterminal Josephson junctions: Weyl modes, Chern numbers, conductances, and supercurrents
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Abstract
We consider mesoscopic multiterminal Josephson junctions and study emergent topological properties of the Andreev subgap bands. We use symmetry-constrained analysis for Wigner-Dyson classes of scattering matrices to derive band dispersions. When scattering matrix of the normal region connecting superconducting leads is energy-independent, the determinant formula for Andreev spectrum can be reduced to a palindromic equation that admits a complete analytical solution. Band topology manifests with an appearance of the Weyl nodes which serve as monopoles of finite Berry curvature. The corresponding fluxes are quantified by Chern numbers that translate into a quantized nonlocal conductance that we compute explicitly for the time-reversal-symmetric scattering matrix. The topological regime can be also identified by supercurrents as Josephson current-phase relationships exhibit pronounced non-analytic behavior and discontinuities near Weyl points that can be controllably accessed in experiments.
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Presenters
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Hongyi Xie
Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
Authors
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Hongyi Xie
Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
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Maxim Vavilov
Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Physics, University of Wisconsin Madison
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Alex Levchenko
Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Wisconsin - Madison