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Phonon Hall thermal conductivity from Green-Kubo formula

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-07-19 v1

Abstract

We derive a formula for the thermal conductivity tensor of a ballistic phonon Hall model. It is found that, although the diagonal elements of the conductivity tensor diverge to infinite, the off-diagonal elements are finite,antisymmetric, and odd in magnetic field. The off-diagonal elements are non-zero only if the dynamic matrix of the phonon system breaks mirror reflection symmetry. The results are obtained without perturbative assumptions about the spin-phonon interactions.

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@article{arxiv.0902.1219,
  title  = {Phonon Hall thermal conductivity from Green-Kubo formula},
  author = {Jian-Sheng Wang and Lifa Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.1219},
  year   = {2009}
}

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