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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 report a study on the thermal conductivity (\kappa) of Tb_2Ti_2O_7 single crystals at low temperatures. It is found that in zero field this material has an extremely low phonon thermal conductivity in a broad temperature range. The mean…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-11 Q. J. Li , Z. Y. Zhao , C. Fan , F. B. Zhang , H. D. Zhou , X. Zhao , X. F. Sun

Majorana fermions as emergent excitations of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid ground state constitute a promising concept in fault tolerant quantum computation. Experimentally, the recently reported topological half-quantized thermal Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-27 Matthias Gillig , Xiaochen Hong , Christoph Wellm , Vladislav Kataev , Weiliang Yao , Yuan Li , Bernd Büchner , Christian Hess

Spin-phonon coupling underlies a number of diverse range of phenomena of recent interest, particularly in transition metal insulators with strong spin-orbit effects, where it may give rise to hybrid magnetoelastic excitations, and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-02 Ramesh Dhakal , Samuel Griffith , Kate Choi , Stephen M. Winter

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 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 report detailed measurements of the Onsager-like planar thermal Hall conductivity $\kappa_{xy}$ in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, a spin-liquid candidate of topical interest. With the thermal current ${\bf J}_{\rm Q}$ and magnetic field $\bf…

We study the effect of the electron-phonon interaction on the finite frequency dependent electronic thermal conductivity of two dimensional graphene. We calculate it for various acoustic phonons present in graphene and characterized by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-07 Pankaj Bhalla

We study heat transport in quasi-one-dimensional spin-chain systems by considering the model of one-dimensional bosonic spin excitations interacting with three-dimensional phonons and impurities in the limit of weak spin-lattice coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Chernyshev

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

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

Phonon polarization in a magnetic field is analyzed in 2D model. It is shown, that at presence of spin-phonon interaction phonon possess elliptic polarization which causes the appearance of heat flux component perpendicular both to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-04 L. A. Maksimov , T. V. Khabarova

The room temperature thermal diffusivity of high T$_c$ materials is dominated by phonons. This allows the scattering of phonons by electrons to be discerned. We argue that the measured strength of this scattering suggests a converse…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-27 Connie H. Mousatov , Sean A. Hartnoll

The theory of anomalous Hall effect for the heat transfer in a paramagnetic dielectric, discovered experimentally in [1], is developed. The appearance of the phonon heat flux normal to both the temperature gradient and the magnetic field is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu. Kagan , L. A. Maksimov

The observation of a misalignment between the applied heat flux and the measured temperature gradient in insulating solids induced by magnetic field has become a subject of experimental investigation, theoretical speculation, and unsettled…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Yu Ling , Benoît Fauqué , Kamran Behnia

The wave property of phonons is employed to explore the thermal transport across a finite periodic array of nano-scatterers such as circular and triangular holes. As thermal phonons are generated in all directions, we study their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Thu Trang Nghiem Thi , P. -Olivier Chapuis

We investigate thermal transport in square ice, a two-dimensional analogue of spin ice, exploring the role played by emergent magnetic monopoles in transporting energy. Using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations based on energy preserving…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-14 Ruairidh Sutcliffe , Jeffrey G. Rau

Layered van der Waals (vdW) magnets are prominent playgrounds for developing magnetoelectric, magneto-optic and spintronic devices. In spintronics, particularly in spincaloritronic applications, low thermal conductivity ($\kappa$) is highly…

Understanding the coupling between spin and phonons is critical for controlling the lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_l$) in magnetic materials, as we demonstrate here for CrX$_3$ (X = Br and I) monolayers. We show that these compounds…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-10 T. Pandey , F. M. Peeters , M. V. Milovsevic

To probe the peculiar excitations spinons and magnetic monopoles in the quantum spin ice candidate Pr2Zr2O7, we studied the low-temperature thermal Hall conductivity (\k{appa}xy) and thermal conductivity (\k{appa}xx) of Pr2Zr2O7 single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-28 Wenjun Chu , Xuefeng Sun