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Spin-Nernst Effect in Time-Reversal-Invariant Topological Superconductors
Taiki Matsushita1, Jiei Ando1, Yusuke Masaki2
1Department of Materials Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan.
Abstract:
We investigate the spin-Nernst effect in time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors, and show that it provides smoking-gun evidence for helical Cooper pairs. The spin-Nernst effect stems from asymmetric, in spin space, scattering of quasiparticles at nonmagnetic impurities, and generates a transverse spin current by the temperature gradient. Both the sign and the magnitude of the effect sensitively depend on the scattering phase shift at impurity sites. Therefore the spin-Nernst effect is uniquely suitable for identifying time-reversal-invariant topological superconducting orders.
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