Spin quantum Hall effect in unconventional superconductors
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چکیده
We study the properties of the ‘‘spin quantum Hall fluid’’—a spin phase with quantized spin Hall conductance that is potentially realizable in superconducting systems with unconventional pairing symmetry. A simple realization is provided by a dx22y21idxy superconductor which we argue has a dimensionless spin Hall conductance equal to 2. A theory of the edge states of the dx22y21idxy superconductor is developed. The properties of the transition to a phase with vanishing spin Hall conductance induced by disorder are considered. We construct a description of this transition in terms of a supersymmetric spin chain, and use it to numerically determine universal properties of the transition. We discuss various possible experimental probes of this quantum Hall physics. @S0163-1829~99!00426-9#
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