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Transversal transport of magnons in a modified Lieb lattice

Materials Science 2023-02-14 v2

Abstract

We studied a two-band magnon insulating model whose geometry is that of a modified Lieb lattice in which one of the sites was removed. Anisotropic ferromagnetic exchange interactions exist between the three nearest neighbors, and the anisotropy opens a gap in the magnon energy band structure. A non-vanishing Berry curvature is induced by a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). The topology of the bands is trivial (in the sense of a null Chern number), but the finite Berry curvature induces Hall-like transport effects whose coefficients were calculated. Their dependence on temperature was studied and shows a resemblance with other magnon insulating systems found in the literature. The dependence on exchange couplings, DMI parameter, and external magnetic field was also investigated.

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@article{arxiv.2210.07757,
  title  = {Transversal transport of magnons in a modified Lieb lattice},
  author = {P. G. de Oliveira and A. S. T. Pires},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07757},
  year   = {2023}
}