Published February 27, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

ac Hall Effect and Photon Drag of Superconducting Condensates

  • 1. Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, GSP-105, Russia
  • 2. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region 141701, Russia
  • 3. University Bordeaux, LOMA UMR-CNRS 5798, F-33405 Talence Cedex, France
  • 4. World-Class Research Center "Digital Biodesign and Personalized Healthcare," Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow 19991, Russia

Description

We suggest a theoretical description of the photogalvanic phenomena arising in superconducting condensates in the field of electromagnetic wave. The ac Hall effect and photon drag are shown to originate from the second-order nonlinear response of superconducting carriers caused by the suppression of their concentration due to the combined influence of the electron-hole asymmetry and charge imbalance generated by the incident electromagnetic wave. Starting from the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory with the complex relaxation constant, we develop a phenomenological description of these phenomena and investigate the resulting behavior of the dc supercurrent and second harmonic induced by microwave radiation incident on a superconductor surface.

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.096001;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100006769; 10.13039/501100012190; 10.13039/501100012708; 10.13039/501100001665; 10.13039/501100000780;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
132
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
6 pgs.
ISSN
0031-9007