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Sign reversal of the Hall response in a crystalline superconductor

Erez Berg, Sebastian D. Huber, Netanel H. Lindner

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.024507 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We consider the Hall conductivity due to the motion of a vortex in a lattice model of a clean superconductor, using a combination of general arguments, unrestricted Hartree-Fock calculations, and exact diagonalization. In the weak-coupling limit, kFξ≫1, the sign of the Hall response of the superconducting state is the same as that of the normal (nonsuperconducting) state. For intermediate and strong coupling (kFξ∼1), however, we find that the sign of the Hall response in the superconducting state can be opposite to that of the normal state. In addition, we find that the sign reversal of the Hall response is correlated with a discontinuous change in the density profile at the vortex core. Implications for experiments in the cuprate superconductors are discussed.

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