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.
Authors
- Bin Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0648-8775)
- Fuming Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4192-9361)
- Longjun Xiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4939-5640)
- Miaomiao Wei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9833-9464)
- Jian Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4519-5003)
Institutions
- Shenzhen University (CN)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-10-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/fql8-f3tl
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.26