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Anomalous photon thermal Hall effect

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2020-07-01 v3 Materials Science Applied Physics Optics

Abstract

We predict an anomalous thermal Hall effect (ATHE) mediated by photons in networks of Weyl semi-metals. Contrary to the photon thermal Hall effect in magneto-optical systems which requires the application of an external magnetic field the ATHE in a Weyl semi-metals network is an intrinsic property of these systems. Since the Weyl semi-metals can exhibit a strong nonreciprocal response in the infrared over a broad spectral range the magnitude of thermal Hall flux in these systems can be relatively large compared to the primary flux. This ATHE paves the way for a directional control of heat flux by localy tuning the magnitude of temperature field without changing the direction of temperature gradient.

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@article{arxiv.2004.06336,
  title  = {Anomalous photon thermal Hall effect},
  author = {A. Ott and S. -A. Biehs and P. Ben-Abdallah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06336},
  year   = {2020}
}
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