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It has been known for more than a decade that phonons can produce an off-diagonal thermal conductivity in presence of magnetic field. Recent studies of thermal Hall conductivity, $\kappa_{xy}$, in a variety of contexts, however, have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-11 Xiaokang Li , Benoît Fauqué , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

A thermal Hall effect is observed in an increasing number of insulators often attributed to phonons, but the underlying mechanism is in most cases unknown. A coupling of phonons to spins has been invoked and scattering of phonons by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-19 Amirreza Ataei , Gael Grissonnanche , Marie-Eve Boulanger , Lu Chen , Etienne Lefrancois , Veronique Brouet , Louis Taillefer

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

We calculate the classic Hall conductivity and mobility of the undoped and doped (or in the gate voltage) graphene as a function of temperature, magnetic field, and carrier concentration. Carrier collisions with defects and acoustic phonons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. A. Falkovsky

One of the most distinctive features of graphene is its huge inter-Landau-level splitting in experimentally attainable magnetic fields which results in the room-temperature quantum Hall effect. In this paper we calculate the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 A. M. Alexeev , R. R. Hartmann , M. E. Portnoi

Kitaev materials are a promising platform for the realization of quantum spin liquid states. The thermal Hall effect has emerged as a potential probe of exotic excitations within such states. In the Kitaev candidate material…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-15 Lu Chen , Étienne Lefrançois , Ashvini Vallipuram , Quentin Barthélemy , Amirreza Ataei , Wailing Yao , Yuan Li , Louis Taillefer

Motivated by recent experiments on the phonon contribution to the thermal Hall effect in the cuprates, we present an analysis of chiral phonon transport. We assume the chiral behavior arises from a non-zero phonon Hall vicosity, which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 Haoyu Guo , Subir Sachdev

The amplitude of the Hall response of electrons can be understood without invoking interactions. Most theories of the phonon thermal Hall effect have likewise opted for a non-interacting picture. Here, we challenge this approach. Our study…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 Xiaodong Guo , Xiaokang Li , Alaska Subedi , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

The phonon Hall effect conventionally describes the generation of a transverse heat current in an applied magnetic field. In this work, we extend the effect to hybrid light-matter excitations and demonstrate theoretically that phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-22 Omer Yaniv , Dominik M. Juraschek

In the context of recent experimental observations of an unexpectedly large thermal Hall conductivity, $\kappa_H$, in insulating $\mathrm{La_2CuO_4}$ (LCO) and $\mathrm{SrTiO_3}$ (STO), we theoretically explore conditions under which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-24 Jing-Yuan Chen , Steven A. Kivelson , Xiao-Qi Sun

Phonon polarization in a magnetic field is analyzed in isotropic model. It is shown, that at presence of spin-phonon interaction phonon possess circular polari-zation which causes the appearance of heat flux component perpendicular both to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 L. A. Maksimov , T. V. Khabarova

We present a systematic theory of the phonon Hall effect in a ballistic crystal lattice system, and apply it on the kagome lattice which is ubiquitous in various real materials. By proposing a proper second quantization for the non-Hermite…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-15 Lifa Zhang , Jie Ren , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

Structural defects in one-dimensional heat conductors couple longitudinal (stretching) and transverse (bending) vibrations. This coupling results in the scattering of longitudinal phonons to transverse phonons and backwards. We show that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Alexander L. Burin

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

The role of electron-phonon scattering in finite-temperature anomalous Hall effect is still poorly understood. In this work, we present a Boltzmann theory for the side-jump contribution from electron-phonon scattering, which is derived from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Cong Xiao , Ying Liu , Ming Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang , Qian Niu

In a growing number of materials, phonons have been found to generate a thermal Hall effect, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Inspired by previous studies that revealed the importance of Tb$^{3+}$ ions in generating the thermal…

We discuss the phonon-assisted scattering of electrons by defects, i.e., the so-called Koshino-Taylor effect, in graphene. The two-dimensional character of graphene implies that the strength of the Koshino-Taylor effect can be considerably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Cano

Polar phonons can induce electric fields in an adjacent layer, whether non-polar or polar, producing remote phonon scattering of electrons. Treatment of remote phonon scattering has been based on the dielectric continuum model which takes…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-15 A. Dyson , B. K. Ridley

The phonon induced anomalous Hall or thermal Hall effects have been observed in various systems in recent experiments. However, the theoretical studies on this subject are very scarce and incomplete. In this work, we present a systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Jia-Xing Zhang , Wei Chen

Since the first experimental observation of the phonon Hall effect (PHE) in 2005, its physical origin and theoretical explanation have been extensively investigated. While spin-orbit interactions are believed to play important roles under…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-28 Kangtai Sun , Zhibin Gao , Jian-Sheng Wang