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Planar Thermal Hall Effects in Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidate Na2Co2TeO6

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-11-28 v1

Abstract

We investigate both the longitudinal thermal conductivity (κxx\kappa_{xx}) and the planar thermal Hall conductivity (κxy\kappa_{xy}) in the Kitaev spin liquid candidate of Co-based honeycomb antiferromagnet Na2_2Co2_2TeO6_6 in a magnetic field (BB) applied along the aa and aa^* axes. A finite κxy\kappa_{xy} is resolved for both field directions in the antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase below the N\'eel temperature of 27 K. The temperature dependence of κxy/T\kappa_{xy}/T shows the emergence of topological bosonic excitations. In addition, the field dependence of κxy\kappa_{xy} shows sign reversals at the critical fields in the AFM phase, suggesting the changes in the Chern number distribution of the topological magnons. Remarkably, a finite κxy\kappa_{xy} is observed in BaB \parallel a^* between the first-order transition field in the AFM phase and the saturation field, which is prohibited in a disordered state by the two-fold rotation symmetry around the aa^* axis of the honeycomb lattice, showing the presence of a magnetically ordered state that breaks the two-fold rotation symmetry. Our results demonstrate the presence of topological magnons in this compound in the whole field range below the saturation field.

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@article{arxiv.2210.13798,
  title  = {Planar Thermal Hall Effects in Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidate Na2Co2TeO6},
  author = {Hikaru Takeda and Jiancong Mai and Masatoshi Akazawa and Kyo Tamura and Jian Yan and Kalimuthu Moovendaran and Kalaivanan Raju and Raman Sankar and Kwang-Yong Choi and Minoru Yamashita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.13798},
  year   = {2022}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures, and Supplementary Materials. To appear in Phys. Rev. Research