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The recent report of a half-quantized thermal Hall effect in the Kitaev material $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ has sparked a strong debate on whether it is generated by Majorana fermion edge currents or whether other more conventional mechanisms…

At low temperatures, the thermal conductivity of spin excitations in a magnetic insulator can exceed that of phonons. However, because they are charge neutral, the spin waves are not expected to display a thermal Hall effect in a magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-09 Max Hirschberger , Robin Chisnell , Young S. Lee , N. P. Ong

The underlying mechanism of the thermal Hall effect (THE) generated by phonons in a variety of insulators is yet to be identified. Here, we report on a sizeable thermal Hall conductivity in NiPS$_3$, a van der Waals stack of honeycomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-02 Qingkai Meng , Xiaokang Li , Jie Liu , Lingxiao Zhao , Chao Dong , Zengwei Zhu , Liang Li , Kamran Behnia

SrTiO$_3$, a quantum paralectric, displays a detectable phonon thermal Hall effect (THE). Here we show that the amplitude of THE is extremely sensitive to stoichiometry. It drastically decreases upon substitution of a tiny fraction of Sr…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-12 Shan Jiang , Xiaokang Li , Benoît Fauqué , Kamran Behnia

It has been known for decades that a magnetic field can deflect phonons as they flow in response to a thermal gradient, producing a thermal Hall effect. Several recent experiments have revealed ratios of the phonon Hall conductivity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 B. Flebus , A. H. MacDonald

We investigate the thermal Hall conductivity in the Kitaev model with additional interactions under a magnetic field, employing a finite-temperature tensor network method benchmarked by a thermal pure quantum state technique. We find that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Tsuyoshi Okubo , Joji Nasu , Takahiro Misawa , Yukitoshi Motome

We investigated the longitudinal thermal conductivity $\kappa_{xx}$ and thermal hall conductivity $\kappa_{xy}$ in La$_2$CuO$_4$ at temperatures $T$ between 2 and 20 K in magnetic fields $H$ up to 10 T. Within the temperature and field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-30 Jiayi Hu , Haozhi Xu , Juntao Yao , Genda Gu , Qiang Li , N. P. Ong

We have investigated the thermal-transport properties of the kagome antiferromagnet Cd-kapellasite (Cd-K). We find that a field suppression effect on the longitudinal thermal conductivity k_xx sets in below ~25 K, suggesting a large spin…

The Kitaev quantum spin liquid displays the fractionalization of quantum spins into Majorana fermions. The emergent Majorana edge current is predicted to manifest itself in the form of a finite thermal Hall effect, a feature commonly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-30 Y. Kasahara , K. Sugii , T. Ohnishi , M. Shimozawa , M. Yamashita , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , J. Nasu , Y. Motome , T. Shibauchi , Y. Matsuda

We investigate the phonon thermal conductivity $\kappa_{\mathrm{ph}}$ of doped $\rm La_2CuO_4$ based on out-of-plane thermal conductivity measurements. When room temperature is approached the temperature dependence of $\kappa_{\mathrm{ph}}$…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 C. Hess , B. Büchner

We present theoretically the thermal Hall effect of magnons in a ferromagnetic lattice with a Kekul\'e-O coupling (KOC) modulation and a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Through a strain-based mechanism for inducing the KOC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 Christian Moulsdale , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Yang Xian

We investigate thermal Hall conductivity $\kappa_{xy}$ of a $J$-$K$ Kitaev-Heisenberg model with a Zeeman field in the $(111)$ direction in the light of the recent debate surrounding the possible re-emergence of Ising topological order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-27 Aman Kumar , Vikram Tripathi

The origin of the phonon thermal Hall effect in insulators is a matter of ongoing debate. The large amplitude of the signal in an elemental non-magnetic solid, such as black phosphorus (BP), calls for a minimal mechanism not invoking the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-09 Xiaokang Li , Xiaodong Guo , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

The nature of the pseudogap phase of cuprates remains a major puzzle. One of its new signatures is a large negative thermal Hall conductivity $\kappa_{\rm xy}$, which appears for dopings $p$ below the pseudogap critical doping $p^*$, but…

Kitaev physics has recently attracted attention in condensed matter for its anticipated novel quantum spin liquid state. The thermal transport measurement is crucial for probing the novel features of charge-neutral quasiparticles. In this…

Thermal conductance measurements, sensitive to charge and chargeless energy flow, are evolving as an essential measurement technique in Condensed Matter Physics. For two-dimensional topological insulators, the measurements of the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Ron Aharon Melcer , Sofia Konyzheva , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky

We consider the effect of coupling between phonons and a chiral Majorana edge in a gapped chiral spin liquid with Ising anyons (e.g., Kitaev's non-Abelian spin liquid on the honeycomb lattice). This is especially important in the regime in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-10 Mengxing Ye , Gábor B. Halász , Lucile Savary , Leon Balents

Recently, Jiayi Hu and co-workers reported that they did not resolve any thermal Hall signal in La$_2$CuO$_4$ by `high resolution' measurements, setting an upper bound of $|\kappa_{xy}| <2\times 10^{-3}~$Wm$^{-1}$K$^{-1}$ at 20 K. Two…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-18 Shan Jiang , Qiaochao Xiang , Benoît Fauqué , Xiaokang Li , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

Proposed effective Hamiltonians from the literature for the material $\alpha$-RuCl${}_3$ are used to compute the magnon thermal Hall conductivity, $\kappa_{xy}$, using linear spin wave theory for the magnetically ordered state. No model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-30 Tessa Cookmeyer , Joel E. Moore

The honeycomb Kitaev model in a magnetic field is a source of a topological quantum spin liquid with Majorana fermions and gauge flux excitations as fractional quasiparticles. We present experimental results for the thermal Hall effect of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-06 Richard Hentrich , Maria Roslova , Anna Isaeva , Thomas Doert , Wolfram Brenig , Bernd Büchner , Christian Hess