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We discuss the implications that new magnetocaloric, thermal expansion and magnetostriction data in $\alpha$-RuCl$_{3}$ single crystals have on its temperature-field phase diagram and uncover the magnetic-field dependence of an apparent…

Effects of bond randomness and site dilution are systematically investigated for the Kitaev model describing a quantum spin liquid with fractional excitations of itinerant Majorana fermions and localized fluxes. We find that, in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-02 Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

The layered honeycomb magnet $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ has been suggested to exhibit a field-induced quantum spin liquid state, in which the reported large thermal Hall effect close to the half-quantized value still remains a subject of debate.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-12 J. A. N. Bruin , R. R. Claus , Y. Matsumoto , J. Nuss , S. Laha , B. V. Lotsch , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , H. Takagi

There has been great interest in identifying a Kitaev quantum spin liquid state in frustrated magnets with bond-dependent interactions. In particular, the experimental report of a half-quantized thermal Hall conductivity in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-11 Emily Z. Zhang , Reja H. Wilke , Yong Baek Kim

The thermal Hall effect, defined as a heat current response transversal to an applied temperature gradient, is a central experimental probe of exotic electrically insulating phases of matter. A key question is how the interplay between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-28 N. Li , R. R. Neumann , S. K. Guang , Q. Huang , J. Liu , K. Xia , X. Y. Yue , Y. Sun , Y. Y. Wang , Q. J. Li , Y. Jiang , J. Fang , Z. Jiang , X. Zhao , A. Mook , J. Henk , I. Mertig , H. D. Zhou , X. F. Sun

We present a way to extract the quasiparticle (qp) thermal conductivity Kappa_e and mean-free-path in YBa_2Cu_3O_x, using the thermal Hall effect and the magnetoconductance of Kappa_e. The results are very consistent with heat capacity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Krishana , N. P. Ong , Y. Zhang , Z. A. Xu , R. Gagnon , L. Taillefer

We extend the thermodynamic approach for the description of the thermal Hall effect in the vicinity of a superconducting phase transition, in the fluctuation dominated regime. We show that the Hall heat conductivity is proportional to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-25 A. V. Kavokin , Y. M. Galperin , A. A. Varlamov

Insulating quantum magnets lie at the forefront both of fundamental research into quantum matter and of technological exploitation in the increasingly applied field of spintronics. In this context, the magnetic thermal transport is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-22 Christopher A. Pocs , Ian A. Leahy , Hao Zheng , Gang Cao , Eun-Sang Choi , S. -H. Do , Kwang-Yong Choi , B. Normand , Minhyea Lee

We use time-domain terahertz spectroscopy to measure the low energy conductivity and magnons in RuCl$_3$ under external magnetic field. At zero field, an oscillation with a frequency of 0.62 THz is clearly observed in time-domain spectrum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 L. Y. Shi , Y. Q. Liu , T. Lin , M. Y. Zhang , S. J. Zhang , L. Wang , Y. G. Shi , T. Dong , N. L. Wang

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 has been observed in a wide variety of magnetic insulators, yet its origins remains controversial. While some studies attribute the effect to intrinsic mechanism, such as heat carriers with Berry curvature, others…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-12 Avi Shragai , Ezekiel Horsley , Subin Kim , Young-June Kim , B. J. Ramshaw

Recently, the observation of large thermal Hall conductivities in correlated insulators with no apparent broken symmetry have generated immense interest and debates on the underlying ground states. Here, considering frustrated magnets with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-09 Li Ern Chern , Finn Lasse Buessen , Yong Baek Kim

We study nontrivial responses of topological superconductors and superfluids to the temperature gradient and rotation of the system. In two-dimensional gapped systems, the Str\v{e}da formula for the electric Hall conductivity is generalized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-16 Kentaro Nomura , Shinsei Ryu , Akira Furusaki , Naoto Nagaosa

We consider magnetohydrodynamics with an external magnetic field. We find that in general one must allow for a non-zero incoherent Hall conductivity to correctly describe the DC longitudinal and Hall thermal conductivities beyond order zero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-08 Andrea Amoretti , Daniel K. Brattan , Nicodemo Magnoli , Marcello Scanavino

Although the superconductivity in UPt_3 is one of the most well studied, there are still lingering questions about the nodal directions in the B and C phase in the presence of a magnetic field. Limiting ourselves to the low temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-02 P. Thalmeier , K. Maki

The Hall conductivities of HgBa_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{6+\delta}and HgBa_{2}Ca_{2}Cu_{3}O_{8+\delta} thin films are investigated for a magnetic field parallel to the c axis. The mixed-state Hall conductivity for these compounds is well described by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Wan-Seon Kim , W. N. Kang , S. J. Oh , Mun-Seog Kim , Yujoung Bai , Sung-Ik Lee , Chang Ho Choi , H. -C. Ri

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

Two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit coupling in the proximity of a superconductor and a magnetic insulator have recently been considered as promising candidates to realize topological superconducting phases. Here we discuss…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Teemu Ojanen , Takuya Kitagawa

$\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ is a promising candidate material for the Kitaev spin liquid state where the half quantization of the thermal Hall effect, suggesting a topological character, has been observed. However, its relation to the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-24 Daichi Takikawa , Masahiko G. Yamada , Satoshi Fujimoto

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