TY - JOUR
T1 - Topologically Protected Landau Level in the Vortex Lattice of a Weyl Superconductor
AU - Pacholski, M.J.
AU - Beenakker, C.W.J.
AU - Adagideli, I.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The question whether the mixed phase of a gapless superconductor can support a Landau level is a celebrated problem in the context of d-wave superconductivity, with a negative answer: the scattering of the subgap excitations (massless Dirac fermions) by the vortex lattice obscures the Landau level quantization. Here we show that the same question has a positive answer for a Weyl superconductor: the chirality of the Weyl fermions protects the zeroth Landau level by means of a topological index theorem. As a result, the heat conductance parallel to the magnetic field has the universal value G=12g0Φ/Φ0, with Φ as the magnetic flux through the system, Φ0 as the superconducting flux quantum, and g0 as the thermal conductance quantum.
AB - The question whether the mixed phase of a gapless superconductor can support a Landau level is a celebrated problem in the context of d-wave superconductivity, with a negative answer: the scattering of the subgap excitations (massless Dirac fermions) by the vortex lattice obscures the Landau level quantization. Here we show that the same question has a positive answer for a Weyl superconductor: the chirality of the Weyl fermions protects the zeroth Landau level by means of a topological index theorem. As a result, the heat conductance parallel to the magnetic field has the universal value G=12g0Φ/Φ0, with Φ as the magnetic flux through the system, Φ0 as the superconducting flux quantum, and g0 as the thermal conductance quantum.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.037701
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.037701
M3 - Article
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 121
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 3
M1 - 037701
ER -