Magnon spin Nernst effect in antiferromagnets
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2016-11-16 v3
Abstract
We predict that a temperature gradient can induce a magnon-mediated spin Hall response in an antiferromagnet with non-trivial magnon Berry curvature. We develop a linear response theory which gives a general condition for a Hall current to be well defined, even when the thermal Hall response is forbidden by symmetry. We apply our theory to a honeycomb lattice antiferromagnet and discuss a role of magnon edge states in a finite geometry.
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@article{arxiv.1606.03088,
title = {Magnon spin Nernst effect in antiferromagnets},
author = {Vladimir A. Zyuzin and Alexey A. Kovalev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.03088},
year = {2016}
}
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17 pages