Weyl nodes in Andreev spectra of multiterminal Josephson junctions: Chern numbers, conductances, and supercurrents

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Xie, Hong-Yi [1 ]
Vavilov, Maxim G. [1 ]
Levchenko, Alex [1 ]
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[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, 1150 Univ Ave, Madison, WI 53706 USA
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MAJORANA FERMIONS;
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10.1103/PhysRevB.97.035443
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T [工业技术];
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We consider mesoscopic four-terminal 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 the 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 manifestswith an appearance of theWeyl nodeswhich 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 also be identified by supercurrents as Josephson current-phase relationships exhibit pronounced nonanalytic behavior and discontinuities near Weyl points that can be controllably accessed in experiments.
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