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Origin of the anomalous Hall effect in two-band chiral superconductors

M. D. E. Denys, P. M. R. Brydon

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.094503 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We consider the origin of the anomalous Hall effect in a general model of a clean two-band chiral superconductor. Within the Kubo formalism we derive an analytic expression for the high-frequency ac Hall conductivity valid close to the critical temperature. This expression involves two distinct gauge-invariant time-reversal-odd bilinear (TROB) functions involving the pairing potential and its Hermitian conjugate. We argue that the existence of at least one of these TROBs generically implies a nonzero ac Hall conductivity. The TROBs allow us to clarify the roles of intra- and interband pairing, and provide a straightforward criterion for a superconducting state to exhibit the anomalous Hall effect. We briefly exemplify our results with model calculations of two different chiral p-wave pairing states in strontium ruthenate and a chiral d-wave pairing state on the honeycomb lattice.

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