Superconductivity in Weyl metals
G. Bednik, A. A. Zyuzin, A. A. Burkov
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.035153 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We report on a study of intrinsic superconductivity in a Weyl metal, i.e., a doped Weyl semimetal. Two distinct superconducting states are possible in this system in principle: a zero-momentum pairing BCS state, with point nodes in the gap function, and a finite-momentum FFLO-like state, with a full nodeless gap. We find that, in an inversion-symmetric Weyl metal, the odd-parity BCS state has a lower energy than the FFLO state, despite the nodes in the gap. The FFLO state, on the other hand, may have a lower energy in a noncentrosymmetric Weyl metal, in which Weyl nodes of opposite chirality have different energy. However, realizing the FFLO state is, in general, very difficult since the paired states are not related by any exact symmetry, which precludes a weak-coupling superconducting instability. We also discuss some of the physical properties of the nodal BCS state, in particular, Majorana and Fermi arc surface states.
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