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Sign reversal of the Hall effect in d-wave superconductors
Vladimir Kalnitsky , Netanel Lindner
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The sign of the Hall conductivity σxy in metals is often used to measure the sign of the charge carriers. In type II superconductors, simple models of vortex dynamics predict that σxy should have the same sign as the one obtained from the normal state charge carriers. However, Hall measurements in YBCO and other cuprate superconductors showed that σxy changes sign as a function of temperature, contradicting these models. Recently it was shown that a sign reversal of σxy occurs “naturally” in a generic model for s-wave superconductors, due to a topological transition in the vortex core. We show that a similar effect occurs in a model for d-wave superconductors, and find a rich phase diagram of σxy as a function of interaction strength and doping.