Intrinsic ac anomalous Hall effect of nonsymmorphic chiral superconductors with an application to UPt<sub>3</sub>

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Abstract

We identify an intrinsic mechanism of the anomalous Hall effect for non-symmorphic chiral superconductors. This mechanism relies on both a nontrivial multi-band chiral superconducting order parameter, which is a mixture of pairings of even and odd angular momentum channels, and a complex normal state inter-sublattice hopping, both of which are consequences of the nonsymmorphic group symmetry of the underlying lattice. We apply this mechanism to the putative chiral superconducting phase of the heavy-fermion superconductor UPt3 and calculate the anomalous ac Hall conductivity in a simplified two-band model. From the ac Hall conductivity and optical data we estimate the polar Kerr rotation angle and compare it to the measured results for UPt3 [E. R. Schemm et al., Science 345,190(2014)].

*This work is supported in part by NSERC (CK and ZW), the Canada Research Chair program (CK), the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY11-25915 (AJB, CK, GZ), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's EPiQS Initiative through Grant GBMF4302 (AJB and CK), the ANR-DFG grant Fermi-NESt (GZ), and

Presenters

  • Zhiqiang Wang

    • Physics and Astronomy, McMaster Univ
    • McMaster University

Authors

  • Zhiqiang Wang

    • Physics and Astronomy, McMaster Univ
    • McMaster University
  • John Berlinsky

    • Physics and Astronomy, McMaster Univ
  • Gertrud Zwicknagl

    • Institut fur Mathematische Physik, Technische Universitat Braunschweig
    • Inst. f. Mathemat. Physik, Techn. Univ Braunschweig
  • Catherine Kallin

    • Physics and Astronomy, McMaster Univ
    • McMaster University