Theory of the high-frequency chiral optical response in a p_x+ip_y superconductor

dc.creatorYakovenko, Victor M.
dc.date2006-08-06
dc.date2007-02-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:48:19Z
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dc.descriptionThe optical Hall conductivity and the polar Kerr angle are calculated as functions of temperature for a two-dimensional chiral p_x+ip_y superconductor, where the time-reversal symmetry is spontaneously broken. The theoretical estimate for the polar Kerr angle agrees by the order of magnitude with the recent experimental measurement in Sr2RuO4 by Xia et al. cond-mat/0607539. The theory predicts that the Kerr angle is proportional to the square of the superconducting energy gap and is inversely proportional to the cube of frequency, which can be verified experimentally.
dc.description4 pages, no figures, RevTeX. V.2: one reference and discussion of horizontal lines of nodes added. V.3: a typo corrected, and one reference added. V.4: two references added and minor stylistic changes made, as in the published version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608148
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608148
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. Lett. 98, 087003 (2007)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.087003
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/124459
dc.subjectSuperconductivity
dc.subjectMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
dc.titleTheory of the high-frequency chiral optical response in a p_x+ip_y superconductor
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