Phase-dependent heat transport in Josephson junctions with p-wave superconductors and superfluids
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2019-07-09 v2 Superconductivity
Abstract
We investigate phase-coherent thermal transport in Josephson junctions made from unconventional superconductors or superfluids. The thermal conductance is evaluated for one- and two-dimensional junctions within the Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism. We analyze three different scenarios of junctions between two triplet superconductors with (i) helical pairing, (ii) unitary chiral and (iii) nonunitary chiral pairing. We find that the phase-dependent thermal conductance allows us to distinguish the different pairings and provides insight into the formation of topologically nontrivial Andreev bound states in the junction.
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@article{arxiv.1904.07677,
title = {Phase-dependent heat transport in Josephson junctions with p-wave superconductors and superfluids},
author = {Alexander G. Bauer and Björn Sothmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.07677},
year = {2019}
}
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10 pages, 5 figures