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M J Pacholski1, C W J Beenakker1, I Adagideli2
1Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
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=1/2g_{0}Φ/Φ_{0}, with Φ as the magnetic flux through the system, Φ_{0} as the superconducting flux quantum, and g_{0} as the thermal conductance quantum.
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