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Noncollinear Antiferromagnetic Haldane Magnon Insulator

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-06-14 v9

Abstract

In this Letter we present a comprehensive study of topological magnon bands and thermal Hall effect in non-collinear antiferromagnetic systems on the honeycomb lattice with an intrinsic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We theoretically show that the system possesses topological magnon bands with Chern number protected edge modes accompanied by a nonzero thermal magnon Hall effect. These features result from non-collinearity of the magnetic moments due to an applied out-of-plane magnetic field. Our results provide an experimental clue towards the realization of topological magnon transports in honeycomb antiferromagnetic compounds such as XPS3_3 (X=Mn,Fe) and α\alpha-Cu2_2V2_2O7_7.

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@article{arxiv.1608.00545,
  title  = {Noncollinear Antiferromagnetic Haldane Magnon Insulator},
  author = {S. A. Owerre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00545},
  year   = {2017}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures; published version