Transport of Dirac magnons driven by gauge fields
Abstract
We present a unified quantum field theory for Dirac magnons coupled to emergent gauge fields. At zero temperature, any space- and time-dependent gauge perturbation drives magnons out of equilibrium, generating spin currents and magnon accumulation without conventional thermal or chemical potential gradients. For a honeycomb ferromagnet, we derive closed-form expressions for the induced density and current. In the DC limit, the transverse spin conductivity quantizes to , a magnonic analog of the quantum Hall effect, where is the topological magnon mass and a dimensionless coupling constant. In the AC regime, the conductivity exhibits a sharp resonance when the drive frequency matches the topological gap , signaling interband transitions. Our work establishes gauge fields as a versatile tool for controlling magnon transport and reveals topologically protected quantized responses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.13362,
title = {Transport of Dirac magnons driven by gauge fields},
author = {Luis Fernández and Ka Shen and Leandro O. Nascimento and Van Sérgio Alves and Roberto E. Troncoso and Nicolas Vidal-Silva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.13362},
year = {2026}
}
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7 pages, 3 figures