Monday, November 26, 2012

1211.5419 (Hiroaki. Sumiyoshi et al.)

Quantum Thermal Hall Effect in a Time-Reversal-Symmetry-Broken
Topological Superconductor in Two Dimensions : Approach From Bulk
Calculations
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Hiroaki. Sumiyoshi, Satoshi. Fujimoto
We discuss thermal transport of two-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs) with broken time reversal symmetry, which are described by Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) Hamiltonians. From the calculations of bulk quantities only, without refereeing to Majorana edge states, we show that the thermal Hall conductivity of two-dimensional TSCs in the low-temperature limit is quantized in multiples of $1/2\frac{\pi T}{6}$, which is exactly one half of the value of quantization in the case of the integer quantum Hall effect, and that this exact half-quantization is caused by the structure of the Nambu spinor and the particle-hole symmetry, which BdG Hamiltonians generally have. In the case of spinless chiral p-wave superconductors, this result is in perfect agreement with the argument based on the Ising conformal field theory with the central charge $c=1/2$, which is an effective low-energy theory of the Majorana edge states.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5419

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