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Generic chiral superconductors with three-dimensional electronic structure have nodal gaps and are not strictly topological. Nevertheless, they exhibit a spontaneous thermal Hall effect (THE), i.e. a transverse temperature gradient in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-22 Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Yoshiki Imai , Manfred Sigrist

The finite size effects of the thermal conductivity $\kappa$ have been studied in the phonon space. It is found that only a few phonon modes are selected to take part in the thermal transport when the size $L$ of the system is decreased.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-22 Li Wan

The thermal conductivity of boron arsenide (BAs) is believed to be influenced by phonon scattering selection rules due to its special phonon dispersion. Compression of BAs leads to significant changes in phonon dispersion, which allows for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-20 Songrui Hou , Bo Sun , Fei Tian , Qingan Cai , Shanming Wang , Wanyue Peng , Xi Chen , Zhifeng Ren , Chen Li , Richard Wilson

The travel of heat in insulators is commonly pictured as a flow of phonons scattered along their individual trajectory. In rare circumstances, momentum-conserving collision events dominate, and thermal transport becomes hydrodynamic. One of…

The topological Hall effect (THE) is one of the key signatures of topologically non-trivial magnetic spin textures, wherein electrons feel an additional transverse voltage to the applied current. The magnitude of THE is often small compared…

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

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

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 nature of the pseudogap phase of cuprates remains a major puzzle. Although there are indications that this phase breaks various symmetries, there is no consensus on its fundamental nature. Although Fermi-surface, transport and…

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 numerically study the electrical and thermoelectric transport properties in phosphorene in the presence of both a magnetic field and disorder. The quantized Hall conductivity is similar to that of a conventional two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 R. Ma , S. W. Liu , M. X. Deng , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing , D. N. Sheng

We introduce the intrinsic nonlinear planar thermal Hall effect (NPTHE)-- a dissipationless thermal response proportional to $(\nabla T)^2B$, which arises when the temperature gradient $\nabla T$ and magnetic field $\mathbf{B}$ lie within…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Chanchal K. Barman

Due to its corrugated hexagonal lattice structure, Black phosphorus (BP) has unique anisotropic physical properties, which provides an additional freedom for designing devices. Many body interactions, including interactions with phonon, is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Shengjie Meng , Hongyan Shi , Hu Jiang , Xiudong Sun , Bo Gao

The strong interlayer coupling in black phosphorus (BP), arising from wavefunction overlap between layers, is critical for understanding its electronic and optical properties. Here, we utilize terahertz (THz) spectroscopy to study phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-08 Haiyun Huang , Cheng Chen , Yuxin Zhai , Xiu Zhang , Junzhi Zhu , Junyong Wang , Kai Zhang , Qihua Xiong , Haiyun Liu

We study the nature of the debated thermal Hall effect in the candidate Kitaev material $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$. Without assuming the existence of a gapped spin liquid, we show that a realistic minimal spin model in the canted zigzag phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-27 Shuyi Li , Han Yan , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

We present computations of the thermal Hall coefficient of phonons scattering off a defect with multiple energy levels. Using a microscopic formulation based on the Kubo formula, we find that the leading contribution perturbative in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-15 Haoyu Guo , Darshan G. Joshi , Subir Sachdev

In this paper, we study the intrinsic contribution of nonlinear magnon thermal Hall Effect. We derive the intrinsic second order thermal Hall conductivity of magnon by the thermal scalar potential (TSP) method and the thermal vector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Jun-Cen Li , Zhen-Gang Zhu

Topological Hall effect (THE), a quantum phenomenon arising from emergent magnetic field generated by topological spin texture, is a key method for detecting non-coplanar spin structures like skyrmions in magnetic materials. Here, we…

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

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