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Cross-Correlated Responses of Topological Superconductors and Superfluids

Superconductivity 2012-01-16 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We study nontrivial responses of topological superconductors and superfluids to the temperature gradient and rotation of the system. In two-dimensional gapped systems, the Str\v{e}da formula for the electric Hall conductivity is generalized to the thermal Hall conductivity. Applying this formula to the Majorana surface states of three-dimensional topological superconductors predicts cross-correlated responses between the orbital angular momentum and thermal polarization (entropy polarization). These results can be naturally related to the gravitoelectromagnetism description of three-dimensional topological superconductors and superfluids, analogous to the topological magnetoelectric effect in Z2{\mathbb{Z}}_2 topological insulators.

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@article{arxiv.1108.5054,
  title  = {Cross-Correlated Responses of Topological Superconductors and Superfluids},
  author = {Kentaro Nomura and Shinsei Ryu and Akira Furusaki and Naoto Nagaosa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5054},
  year   = {2012}
}

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7 pages, 1 figure