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We study the quantum transport behavior of a normal-superconductor-normal junction based on type-II Weyl semimetal, which is arranged in the tilting direction of the Weyl semimetal. We find that both the crossed Andreev reflection and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Xue-Si Li , Shu-Feng Zhang , Xue-Rui Sun , Wei-Jiang Gong

We study the Andreev reflections (ARs) at the interface of the type-II Weyl semimetal-superconductor junctions and find double ARs when the superconductor is put in the Weyl semimetal band tilting direction, which is similar to the double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

We study the low-energy single-electron transport across a junction of two magnetic Weyl semimetals, in which the anisotropy axes are tilted one respect to the other. Using a two-band model with a potential step, we compute the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Francesco Buccheri , Reinhold Egger , Alessandro De Martino

The electron-hole conversion at the normal-metal superconductor interface in inversion-symmetric Weyl semimetals is investigated with an effective two-band model. We find that the specular Andreev reflection of Weyl fermions has two unusual…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Wei Chen , Liang Jiang , R. Shen , L. Sheng , B. G. Wang , D. Y. Xing

We study the transport properties and superconducting proximity effect in NSN junctions formed by a time-reversal symmetry broken Weyl semimetal (WSM) in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor. We find that the differential conductance and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-02 Daniel Breunig , Song-Bo Zhang , Martin Stehno , Björn Trauzettel

We investigate magnetotransport across an interface between two Weyl semimetals (finite in both directions) whose Weyl nodes project onto two different surfaces which are twisted with respect to each other before being coupled. This gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nirnoy Basak , Sumathi Rao , Faruk Abdulla

Fermi arc surface states are the hallmark of Weyl semimetals, whose identification is usually challenged by their coexistence with gapless bulk states. Surface transport measurements by fabricating setups on the sample boundary provide a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Yue Zheng , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

We experimentally compare two types of interface structures with magnetic and non-magnetic Weyl semimetals. They are the junctions between a gold normal layer and magnetic Weyl semimetal Ti$_2$MnAl, and a ferromagnetic nickel layer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 V. D. Esin , D. N. Borisenko , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

We experimentally investigate charge transport through the interface between a niobium superconductor and a three-dimensional WTe$_2$ Weyl semimetal. In addition to classical Andreev reflection, we observe sharp non-periodic subgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 A. Kononov , O. O. Shvetsov , S. V. Egorov , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

We study transport through a Weyl semimetal quantum dot sandwiched between an $s$-wave superconductor and a normal lead. The conductance peaks at regular intervals and exhibits double periodicity with respect to two characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Kundu

We study the transport properties of junctions of normal and superconducting Weyl semi-metal with tilted dispersion, in the presence of magnetization induced by magnetic strips. The sub gap tunnelling conductance shows robust signatures in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 M. Maiti , J. Smotlacha

A Weyl semimetal with broken time-reversal symmetry has a minimum of two species of Weyl fermions, distinguished by their opposite chirality, in a pair of Weyl cones at opposite momenta $\pm K$ that are displaced in the direction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 N. Bovenzi , M. Breitkreiz , P. Baireuther , T. E. O'Brien , J. Tworzydlo , I. Adagideli , C. W. J. Beenakker

We study the electromagnetic properties of Weyl semimetals with strong interactions. Focusing on a single Weyl cone in the band structure, we induce strong interactions by coupling the Weyl fermion with a tunable coupling constant $g_f$ to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-11 V. P. J. Jacobs , Panagiotis Betzios , Umut Gursoy , H. T. C. Stoof

In this review we discuss a wide range of topological properties of electron quasiparticles in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Their nontrivial topology is quantified by a monopole-like Berry curvature in the vicinity of Weyl nodes, as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

We present systematic theoretical studies of both bulk and surface electromagnetic eigenmodes, or polaritons, in Weyl semimetals. We derive the tensors of bulk and surface conductivity taking into account all possible combinations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Qianfan Chen , A. Ryan Kutayiah , Ivan Oladyshkin , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

A heterostructure consisting of a magnetic Weyl semimetal and a conventional superconductor exhibits an equilibrium current parallel to the superconductor interface and perpendicular to the magnetization. Analyzing a minimal model, which as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Kevin A. Madsen , Piet W. Brouwer , Maxim Breitkreiz

We identify a signature of chirality in the electrical conduction along magnetic vortices in a Weyl superconductor: The conductance depends on whether the magnetic field is parallel or antiparallel to the vector in the Brillouin zone that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 G. Lemut , M. J. Pacholski , C. W. J. Beenakker

We propose a universal method to detect the specular Andreev reflection taking the simple two dimensional Weyl nodal-line semimetal-superconductor double-junction structure as an example. The quasiclassical quantization conditions are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-27 Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

We study transport properties of topological Weyl nodal-line semimetals(NLSs). Starting from a minimal lattice model with a single nodal loop, and by focusing on a normal-metal-NLS-normal-metal junction, we investigate the dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Yao Zhou , Feng Xiong , Weipeng Chen , Jin An

A Weyl semimetal wire with an axial magnetization has metallic surface states (Fermi arcs) winding along its perimeter, connecting bulk Weyl cones of opposite topological charge (Berry curvature). We investigate what happens to this "Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 P. Baireuther , J. Tworzydło , M. Breitkreiz , I. Adagideli , C. W. J. Beenakker
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