Thermal Hall conductivity in the spin-triplet superconductor with broken time-reversal symmetry

Abstract

Motivated by the spin-triplet superconductor Sr2RuO4, the thermal Hall conductivity is investigated for several pairing symmetries with broken time-reversal symmetry. In the chiral p-wave phase with a fully opened quasiparticle excitation gap, the temperature dependence of the thermal Hall conductivity has a temperature linear term associated with the topological property directly, and an exponential term, which shows a drastic change around the Lifshitz transition. Examining f-wave states as alternative candidates with $\mathbf{d}={\Delta }_0\hat{z}(k_x^2-k_y^2)(k_x\pm i{k}_y)$ and $\mathbf{d}={\Delta }_0\hat{z}{k}_x{k}_y(k_x\pm i{k}_y)$ with gapless quasiparticle excitations, we study the temperature dependence of the thermal Hall conductivity, where for the former state the thermal Hall conductivity has a quadratic dependence on temperature, originating from the linear dispersions, in addition to linear and exponential behavior. The obtained result may enable us to distinguish between the chiral p-wave and f-wave states in Sr2RuO4.

8 pages, 8 figures

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