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arxiv: 1208.2699 · v2 · submitted 2012-08-13 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con · cond-mat.str-el

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Anomalous Hall conductivity of clean Sr2RuO4 at finite temperatures

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keywords hallconductivitysuperconductinganomalousmultibandchiralhoppingmodel
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Building on previous work, we calculate the temperature- and frequency-dependent {\it anomalous} Hall conductivity for the putative multiband chiral superconductor $\Sr$ using a simple microscopic two-orbital model without impurities. A Hall effect arises in this system without the application of an external magnetic field due to the time-reversal-symmetry breaking chiral superconducting state. The anomalous Hall conductivity is nonzero only when there is more than one superconducting order parameter, involving inter- as well as intra-band Cooper pairing. We find that such a multiband superconducting state gives rise to a distinctive resonance in the frequency-dependence of the Hall conductivity at a frequency close to the inter-orbital hopping energy scale that describes hopping between Ru $d_{xz}$ and $d_{yz}$ orbitals. The detection of this feature, robust to temperature and impurity effects in the superconducting phase, would thus constitute compelling evidence in favour of a multiband origin of superconductivity in $\Sr$, with strong superconductivity on the $\alpha$ and $\beta$ bands. The temperature dependence of the Hall conductivity and Kerr rotation angle are studied within this model at the one-loop approximation.

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