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Quantized thermal and spin transports of dirty planar topological superconductors

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2024-05-03 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity

Abstract

Nontrivial bulk topological invariants of quantum materials can leave their signatures on charge, thermal and spin transports. In two dimensions, their imprints can be experimentally measured from well-developed multiterminal Hall bar arrangements. Here, we numerically compute the low temperature (TT) thermal (κxy\kappa_{xy}) and zero temperature spin (σxysp\sigma^{sp}_{xy}) Hall conductivities, and longitudinal thermal conductance (GxxthG^{th}_{xx}) of various prominent two-dimensional fully gapped topological superconductors, belonging to distinct Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes, namely p+ipp+ip (class D), d+idd+id (class C) and p±ipp \pm ip (class DIII) paired states, in mesoscopic six-terminal Hall bar setups from the scattering matrix formalism using Kwant. In both clean and weak disorder limits, the time-reversal symmetry breaking p+ipp+ip and d+idd+id pairings show half-quantized and quantized κxy\kappa_{xy} [in units of κ0=π2kB2T/(3h)\kappa_0=\pi^2 k^2_B T/(3h)], respectively, while the latter one in addition accommodates a quantized σxysp\sigma^{sp}_{xy} [in units of σ0sp=/(8π)\sigma^{sp}_0=\hbar/(8 \pi)]. By contrast, the time-reversal invariant p±ipp \pm ip pairing only displays a quantized GxxthG^{th}_{xx} at low TT up to a moderate strength of disorder. In the strong disorder regime, all these topological responses (κxy\kappa_{xy}, σxysp\sigma^{sp}_{xy}, and GxxthG^{th}_{xx}) vanish. Possible material platforms hosting such paired states and manifesting these robust topological thermal and spin responses are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2308.16908,
  title  = {Quantized thermal and spin transports of dirty planar topological superconductors},
  author = {Sanjib Kumar Das and Bitan Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.16908},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Published version in PRB: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 Table