Asymmetric Andreev reflection induced electrical and thermal Hall-like effects in metal/anisotropic superconductor junctions

Jie Ren; Jian-Xin Zhu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.064512

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Asymmetric Andreev reflection induced electrical and thermal Hall-like effects in metal/anisotropic superconductor junctions

Jie Ren, Jian-Xin Zhu

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.064512 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

By investigating the nonequilibrium transport across a metal/superconductor junction in both nonrelativistic and relativistic cases, we reveal that the asymmetric Andreev reflection with anisotropic superconductors is able to induce electric and thermal Hall-like effects in the absence of a magnetic field. That is, a longitudinal electric voltage or temperature bias can inducetransverse electric or thermal currents merely through the asymmetric Andreev reflection, respectively. In particular, a transverse thermoelectric effect, i.e., the Ettingshausen-like effect, is identified, although the conjugate Nernst effect is absent. The direction change of these electric and thermal Hall-like currents is also discussed. The Hall-like effects uncovered here do not require the conventional time-reversal symmetry breaking but, rather, originate from the mirror symmetry breaking with respect to the interface normal due to the anisotropic paring symmetry of the superconductor.