WTe2 is a material with rich topological properties: it is a 2D topological insulator as a monolayer and a Weyl-semimetal and higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) in the bulk form. Inducing superconductivity in topological materials is a way to obtain topological superconductivity, which lays at the foundation for many proposals of fault tolerant quantum computing. Here, we demonstrate the emergence of superconductivity at the interface between WTe2 and the normal metal palladium. The superconductivity has a critical temperature of about 1.2 K. By studying the superconductivity in perpendicular magnetic field, we obtain the coherence length and the London penetration depth. These parameters correspond to a low Fermi velocity and a high density of states at the Fermi level. This hints to a possible origin of superconductivity due to the formation of flat bands. Furthermore, the critical in-plane magnetic field exceeds the Pauli limit, suggesting a non-trivial nature of the superconducting state.
@article{arxiv.2007.04752,
title = {Superconductivity in type-II Weyl-semimetal WTe2 induced by a normal metal contact},
author = {Artem Kononov and Martin Endres and Gulibusitan Abulizi and Kejian Qu and Jiaqiang Yan and David G. Mandrus and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Christian Schönenberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.04752},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
As accepted to Journal of Applied Physics, 7 pages, 4 figures