Magnetic field filtering of the hinge supercurrent in unconventional metal NiTe$_2$-based Josephson junctions

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العنوان: Magnetic field filtering of the hinge supercurrent in unconventional metal NiTe$_2$-based Josephson junctions
المؤلفون: Le, Tian, Zhang, Ruihan, Li, Changcun, Jiang, Ruiyang, Sheng, Haohao, Tu, Linfeng, Cao, Xuewei, Lyu, Zhaozheng, Shen, Jie, Liu, Guangtong, Liu, Fucai, Wang, Zhijun, Lu, Li, Qu, Fanming
المصدر: Nature Communications 15, 2785 (2024)
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
الوصف: Topological materials with boundary (surface/edge/hinge) states have attracted tremendous research interest. Besides, unconventional (obstructed atomic) materials have recently drawn lots of attention owing to their obstructed boundary states. Experimentally, Josephson junctions (JJs) constructed on materials with boundary states produce the peculiar boundary supercurrent, which was utilized as a powerful diagnostic approach. Here, we report the observations of conspicuous hinge supercurrent in NiTe$_2$-based JJs. Particularly, applying an in-plane magnetic field along the Josephson current could rapidly suppress the bulk supercurrent and retain the nearly pure hinge supercurrent, namely the magnetic field filtering of supercurrent. Further systematic comparative analysis and theoretical calculations demonstrate the existence of unconventional nature and obstructed hinge states in NiTe$_2$. Our results revealed the unique hinge states in unconventional metal NiTe$_2$, and demonstrated in-plane magnetic field as an efficient method to filter out the futile bulk contributions and thereby to highlight the hinge states hidden in topological/unconventional materials.
Comment: 20+6 pages,6+5 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47103-z
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05041
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2303.05041
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
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DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-47103-z