Unconventional Hall Effect in Gapless Superconductors: Transverse Supercurrent Converted from Normal Current

A normal metal proximitized by a superconductor can exhibit a gapless superconducting state characterized by segmented Fermi surfaces, as confirmed experimentally. In this state, quasiparticle states remain gapless along one direction, while a superconducting gap opens in the perpendicular direction. We show that this anisotropic phase enables an unconventional Hall effect in gapless superconductors, termed the superconducting Hall effect (ScHE), in which a longitudinal quasiparticle current is converted into a dissipationless transverse supercurrent without a phase transition. Using both the thermodynamic approach for bulk systems and quantum transport theory for a four-probe setup, we demonstrate the existence of this effect and reveal its intrinsic origin as the quasiparticle Berry curvature. The predicted ScHE can be experimentally verified via angular-dependent Hall measurements performed on gapless superconductors, such as Bi_{2}Te_{3} proximitized by superconducting NbSe_{2} as well as altermagnetic materials coupled to superconductors.

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Physical Review Letters
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2025-10-15
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https://doi.org/10.1103/fql8-f3tl
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Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
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Unconventional Hall Effect in Gapless Superconductors: Transverse Supercurrent Converted from Normal Current

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Unconventional Hall Effect in Gapless Superconductors: Transverse Supercurrent Converted from Normal Current

Bin Wang, Fuming Xu, Longjun Xiang, Miaomiao Wei, Jian Wang
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Abstract

A normal metal proximitized by a superconductor can exhibit a gapless superconducting state characterized by segmented Fermi surfaces, as confirmed experimentally. In this state, quasiparticle states remain gapless along one direction, while a superconducting gap opens in the perpendicular direction. We show that this anisotropic phase enables an unconventional Hall effect in gapless superconductors, termed the superconducting Hall effect (ScHE), in which a longitudinal quasiparticle current is converted into a dissipationless transverse supercurrent without a phase transition. Using both the thermodynamic approach for bulk systems and quantum transport theory for a four-probe setup, we demonstrate the existence of this effect and reveal its intrinsic origin as the quasiparticle Berry curvature. The predicted ScHE can be experimentally verified via angular-dependent Hall measurements performed on gapless superconductors, such as Bi_{2}Te_{3} proximitized by superconducting NbSe_{2} as well as altermagnetic materials coupled to superconductors.

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