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We propose a theory for thermal Hall transport mediated by magnons to address the impact of their damping resulting from magnon-magnon interactions in insulating magnets. This phenomenon is anticipated to be particularly significant in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-10 Shinnosuke Koyama , Joji Nasu

In the recent years, the thermal Hall transport has risen as an important diagnosis of the physical properties of the elementary excitations in various quantum materials, especially among the Mott insulating systems where the electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Xiao-Tian Zhang , Yong Hao Gao , Gang Chen

The Hall effect usually occurs when the Lorentz force acts on a charge current in a conductor in the presence of perpendicular magnetic field. On the other hand, neutral quasi-particles such as phonons and spins can carry heat current and…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-08-12 Y. Onose , T. Ideue , H. Katsura , Y. Shiomi , N. Nagaosa , Y. Tokura

We show that magnetic insulators with a collinear and compensated order can exhibit a thermal Hall effect even at zero magnetic field if they have altermagnetic symmetries. We predict a finite thermal Hall conductivity vector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Rhea Hoyer , Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo , Kyo-Hoon Ahn , Libor Šmejkal , Alexander Mook

We present a quantum Hall effect of magnons in two-dimensional clean insulating magnets at finite temperature. Through the Aharonov-Casher effect, a magnon moving in an electric field acquires a geometric phase and forms Landau levels in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Kouki Nakata , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

In this paper we theoretically discuss thermal Hall effect of magnons in insulating N\'{e}el ordered antiferromagnets at zero external magnetic field. We show that for compensated N\'{e}el order the non-zero thermal Hall effect will occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Vladimir A. Zyuzin

Fourier's law dictates that heat flow is usually parallel to the applied temperature gradient. However, under a high magnetic field, heat flow carried by both electrons in conductors and phonons in insulators can be deflected, a phenomenon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Zhe Cui , Haoran Fan , Wenjiang Zhou , Xianghong Jin , Yuchen Gu , Da Ma , Cong Xiao , Hua Jiang , Xincheng Xie , Bai Song , Yuan Li , Xi Lin

The thermal Hall effect has emerged as a fundamental tool for probing exotic quasiparticles and topological order, particularly in magnetic insulators where electronic conduction is suppressed. Much like skyrmions, which are characterized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ferenc Márkus , Katalin Gambár

Thermal transport acts as a powerful tool for studying the excitations and physical properties of insulators, where a charge gap suppresses electronic conduction. Recently, the thermal Hall effect has been observed across various materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Taekoo Oh

We have investigated the thermal Hall effect of magnons for various ferromagnetic insulators. For pyrochlore ferromagnetic insulators Lu$_2$V$_2$O$_7$, Ho$_2$V$_2$O$_7$, and In$_2$Mn$_2$O$_7$, finite thermal Hall conductivities have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-16 T. Ideue , Y. Onose , H. Katsura , Y. Shiomi , S. Ishiwata , N. Nagaosa , Y. Tokura

In a ferromagnet, the spin excitations are the well-studied magnons. In frustrated quantum magnets, long-range magnetic order fails to develop despite a large exchange coupling between the spins. In contrast to the magnons in conventional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-19 Max Hirschberger , Jason W. Krizan , R. J. Cava , N. P. Ong

We propose a new mechanism for the thermal Hall effect in exchange spin-wave systems, which is induced by the magnon-phonon interaction. Using symmetry arguments, we first show that this effect is quite general, and exists whenever the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Xiaoou Zhang , Yinhan Zhang , Satoshi Okamoto , Di Xiao

We demonstrate theoretically that the thermal Hall effect of magnons in collinear antiferromagnetic insulators is an indicator of magnetic and topological phase transitions in the magnon spectrum. The transversal heat current of magnons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-23 Robin R. Neumann , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

A distinct thermal Hall signal is observed in a quantum spin liquid candidate Ba$_3$CuSb$_2$O$_9$. The transverse thermal conduction shows a power-law temperature dependence below 40 K where a spin gap opens. We suggest that, through the…

The thermal Hall effect in magnetic insulators has been considered a powerful method for examining the topological nature of charge-neutral quasiparticles such as magnons. Yet, unlike the kagome system, the triangular lattice has received…

Experimental and theoretical aspects of Hall-type transport of spins in magnetic insulators are reviewed, with emphasis on their spin chirality origin. A general formalism for linear response theory of thermal Hall transport in the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-22 Jung Hoon Han , Hyunyong Lee

The conjecture made recently by the group at Sherbrooke, that their observed anomalous thermal Hall effect in the pseudo-gap phase in the cuprates is due to phonons, is supported on the basis of an earlier result that the observed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Chandra M. Varma

By analyzing the spin-group symmetry of magnons, we establish two generalized Onsager's relations in the magnon thermal Hall effect, which reveals the rich and complicated structures of the magnon Berry curvature in the parameter space of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Jikun Zhou , Yang Gao , Qian Niu

We theoretically study the thermal Hall effect by magnons in skyrmion crystal phases of ferrimagnets in the vicinity of the angular momentum compensation point (CP). To this end, we start by deriving the equation of motion for magnons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-08 Se Kwon Kim , Kouki Nakata , Daniel Loss , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

In the pseudogap phase of the cuprate, a thermal Hall response of neutral objects has been recently detected experimentally, which continuously persists into the antiferromagnetic insulating phase. In this work, we study the transport…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-02 Zhi-Jian Song , Jia-Xin Zhang , Zheng-Yu Weng
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