Magnonic quantum Hall effect and Wiedemann-Franz law
Abstract
We present a quantum Hall effect of magnons in two-dimensional clean insulating magnets at finite temperature. Through the Aharonov-Casher effect, a magnon moving in an electric field acquires a geometric phase and forms Landau levels in an electric field gradient of sawtooth form. At low temperatures, the lowest energy band being almost flat carries a Chern number associated with a Berry curvature. Appropriately defining the thermal conductance for bosons, we find that the magnon Hall conductances get quantized and show a universal thermomagnetic behavior, i.e., are independent of materials, and obey a Wiedemann-Franz law for magnon transport. We consider magnons with quadratic and linear (Dirac-like) dispersions. Finally, we show that our predictions are within experimental reach for ferromagnets and skyrmion lattices with current device and measurement techniques.
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@article{arxiv.1611.09752,
title = {Magnonic quantum Hall effect and Wiedemann-Franz law},
author = {Kouki Nakata and Jelena Klinovaja and Daniel Loss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.09752},
year = {2017}
}
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7+5 pages, 5+1 figures, 1 table; updated into accepted version in Phys. Rev. B