Influence of a chiral chemical potential on Weyl hybrid junctions

@article{Breunig2019InfluenceOA,
  title={Influence of a chiral chemical potential on Weyl hybrid junctions},
  author={Daniel Breunig and Song-Bo Zhang and Martin P Stehno and Bjorn Trauzettel},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2019}
}
We study the transport properties and superconducting proximity effect in NSN junctions formed by a time-reversal symmetry broken Weyl semimetal (WSM) in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor. We find that the differential conductance and induced pairing amplitudes strongly depend on the angle between the junction direction in real space and the axis separating the Weyl nodes in momentum space. We identify the influence of a chiral chemical potential, i.e., the electron population imbalance… 
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