ac Hall Effect and Photon Drag of Superconducting Condensates

S. V. Mironov; A. S. Mel’nikov; A. I. Buzdin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.096001

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ac Hall Effect and Photon Drag of Superconducting Condensates

S. V. Mironov, A. S. Mel’nikov, A. I. Buzdin

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.096001 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

We suggest a theoretical description of the photogalvanic phenomena arising in superconducting condensates in the field of electromagnetic wave. The ac Hall effect and photon drag are shown to originate from the second-order nonlinear response of superconducting carriers caused by the suppression of their concentration due to the combined influence of the electron-hole asymmetry and charge imbalance generated by the incident electromagnetic wave. Starting from the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory with the complex relaxation constant, we develop a phenomenological description of these phenomena and investigate the resulting behavior of the dc supercurrent and second harmonic induced by microwave radiation incident on a superconductor surface.