Anomalous Josephson Hall effect in doped topological insulators with the nematic superconductivity

Abstract

We study the physics of the Josephson effect in nematic superconductors with $E_u$ odd parity in the Ginzburg-Landau approach. Two-component vector superconducting order parameter makes this effect rather unusual. We get that the Meissner kernel has off-diagonal components. We derive current-phase relations for different configurations of the junction, crystallographic axes of the sample, and nematicity direction. We show that an anomalous Josephson Hall effect can be observed in such a system without any magnetization. That is, for definite orientations of the junction and crystal axes, a component of the Josephson current along the junction is induced by the order parameter phase difference across the contact. We also calculate the magnetic field dependence of the maximum current through the junction. We find that the period of the Fraunhofer oscillations of the maximum Josephson current depends on the geometry of the junction, direction of the magnetic field, and nematicity vector.

11 pages, 6 figures

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