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Berry curvature effects on quasiparticle dynamics in superconductors

Superconductivity 2021-05-12 v5 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We construct a theory for the semiclassical dynamics of superconducting quasiparticles by following their wave-packet motion and reveal rich contents of Berry curvature effects in the phase-space spanned by position and momentum. These Berry curvatures are traced back to the characteristics of superconductivity, including the nontrivial momentum-space geometry of superconducting pairing, the real-space supercurrent, and the charge dipole of quasiparticles. The Berry-curvature effects strongly influence the spectroscopic and transport properties of superconductors, such as the local density of states and the thermal Hall conductivity. As a model illustration, we apply the theory to study the twisted bilayer graphene with a dx2+y2+idxyd_{x^{2}+y^{2}}+id_{xy} superconducting gap function, and demonstrate Berry-curvature induced effects.

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@article{arxiv.2008.11374,
  title  = {Berry curvature effects on quasiparticle dynamics in superconductors},
  author = {Zhi Wang and Liang Dong and Cong Xiao and Qian Niu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.11374},
  year   = {2021}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure