Charge Conservation in BDG Formalism and its Effect in Calculating Berry Phase of Transporting a Localized BDG Quasiparticle around a Vortex in Superfluids/Superconductors

ORAL

Abstract

We examine charge conservation in BdG formalism and discuss the consequence of violating the charge conservation in Berry phase calculation of transporting a localized BdG quasiparticle around a vortex in superfluids/superconductors. We calculate explicitly the Berry phase in a model system in which the vortex is replaced by a 1D annulus ring geometry with quantized superfluid center-of-mass winding number and a localized Zeeman field is imposed to trap a quasiparticle with definite spin orientation.

Authors

  • Yiruo Lin

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Tony Leggett

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign