Published January 1, 2019 | Version v1
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Effect of charge renormalization on the electric and thermoelectric transport along the vortex lattice of a Weyl superconductor

  • 1. Leiden Univ, Inst Lorentz, POB 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
  • 2. Sabanci Univ, Fac Engn & Nat Sci, TR-34956 Istanbul, Turkey

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Building on the discovery that a Weyl superconductor in a magnetic field supports chiral Landau-level motion along the vortex lines, we investigate its transport properties out of equilibrium. We show that the vortex lattice carries an electric current I = 1/2(Q(eff)(2)/h)(Phi/Phi(0))V between two normal-metal contacts at voltage difference V, with Phi the magnetic flux through the system, Phi(0) the superconducting flux quantum, and Q(eff) < e the renormalized charge of the Weyl fermions in the superconducting Landau level. Because the charge renormalization is energy dependent, a nonzero thermoelectric coefficient appears even in the absence of energy-dependent scattering processes.

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