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Title: Andreev bound states in superconductor-barrier-superconductor junctions of Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl semimetals
(Submitted on 26 Dec 2023 (v1), last revised 7 Mar 2024 (this version, v3))
Abstract: We consider a superconductor-barrier-superconductor configuration built with Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl semimetal, which features four bands crossing at a single nodal point. Assuming a homogeneous s-wave pairing in each superconducting region, and the barrier region created by applying a voltage of magnitude $V_0 $ across a piece of normal state semimetal, we apply the BdG formalism to compute the discrete energy spectrum $\varepsilon $ of the subgap Andreev bound states in the short-barrier regime. In contrast with the two-band semimetals studied earlier, we find upto four pairs of localized states (rather than one pair for two-band semimetals) in the thin-barrier limit, and each value of $\varepsilon $ has a complicated dependence on the phase difference $\varphi_{12} $ via cosine and sine functions, which cannot be determined analytically. These are artifacts of multi-band nodes hosting quasiparticles of pseudospin values greater than $1/2$. Using the bound state energies, we compute the Josephson current across the junction configuration.
Submission history
From: Ipsita Mandal [view email][v1] Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:53:07 GMT (3066kb,D)
[v2] Tue, 5 Mar 2024 10:01:36 GMT (3681kb,D)
[v3] Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:52:52 GMT (3681kb,D)
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