Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 2
Monday–Friday, March 4–8, 2019; Boston, Massachusetts
Session R09: Superconductivity: Proximity Effect and Josephson Junctions II
8:00 AM–11:00 AM,
Thursday, March 7, 2019
BCEC
Room: 151A
Sponsoring
Unit:
DCMP
Chair: Richard Klemm, University of Central Florida
Abstract: R09.00014 : Wavefunction of Andreev bound states with topological Weyl singularity in multi-terminal Josephson junction*
10:36 AM–10:48 AM
Presenter:
Tomohiro Yokoyama
(Graduate school of Engineering Science, Osaka University)
Authors:
Tomohiro Yokoyama
(Graduate school of Engineering Science, Osaka University)
Shiro Kawabata
(Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology)
N superconductors can define N-1 independent superconducting phase differences.
The spectrum of Andreev bound states (ABSs) in the junction is $2\pi$ periodic in
all the phase differences $\{ \varphi \}$ and can be regarded as the ``band structure'' in the $\{ \varphi \}$-space
In a previous studies, we have exhibited that the band structure can have
topologically protected singular points (Weyl points) at zero energy in the spectrum.
\footnote{T.\ Yokoyama and Yu.\ V.\ Nazarov, Phys.\ Rev.\ B {\bf 92}, 155437 (2015).}
In this study, we investigate the wavefunction of ABSs with and without the Weyl point.
For two-terminal junction, the ABS wavefunction is delocalized to connect the two terminals
and does not show any structure except an oscillation associated to the coherence length in the normal region.
For multi-terminal case, the wavefunction can be localized between only several terminals.
This localization is relevant to the presence and absence of Josephson current between the terminals.
At the Weyl points, the spectrum has singularity. We discuss the influence of this singularity on
the current and the ABS wavefunction.
*This work has been partially supported by the Hattori Hokokai Foundation
and the JSPS KAKENHI 18K13484.
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