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Motivated by recent experiments on the observation of room temperature skyrmions in a layered heterostructure and subsequent demonstration of topological Hall effect in the same system, we have studied a minimal model of itinerant electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-27 Nyayabanta Swain , Munir Shahzad , Pinaki Sengupta

Experimental and theoretical aspects of Hall-type transport of spins in magnetic insulators are reviewed, with emphasis on their spin chirality origin. A general formalism for linear response theory of thermal Hall transport in the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-22 Jung Hoon Han , Hyunyong Lee

The Kitaev quantum spin liquid epitomizes an entangled topological state, for which two flavors of fractionalized low-energy excitations are predicted: the itinerant Majorana fermion and the Z2 gauge flux. Detection of these excitations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-17 H. Li , T. T. Zhang , A. Said , G. Fabbris , D. G. Mazzone , J. Q. Yan , D. Mandrus , G. B. Halasz , S. Okamoto , S. Murakami , M. P. M. Dean , H. N. Lee , H. Miao

Magnetoelastic interaction couples spin and lattice degrees of freedom and plays a key role in thermal transport properties of magnetic insulators. In the Kitaev quantum spin liquid, the low energy excitations are charge neutral Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-06 Haoxiang Li , A. Said , J. Q. Yan , D. M. Mandrus , H. N. Lee , S. Okamoto , Gábor B. Halász , H. Miao

We show that the magneto-electric coupling in 3D (strong) topological insulators is related to a second derivative of the bulk magnetization. The formula we derive is the non-linear response analog of the Streda formula for Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-31 Doron L. Bergman , Gil Refael

From a systematic study of thermal and charge transport in various single crystals of compensated topological insulators we identify the evolution of a large low-temperature thermal Hall effect as a characteristic common feature. In order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-14 Rohit Sharma , Mahasweta Bagchi , Yongjian Wang , Yoichi Ando , Thomas Lorenz

We present a theory of magnonic thermal Hall transport driven by many-body skew scattering. In field-polarized chiral magnets, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction induces three-magnon interactions that violate time-reversal symmetry and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-22 Dimos Chatzichrysafis , Alexander Mook

The bond-dependent Kitaev interaction $K$ is familiar in the effective spin model of transition metal compounds with octahedral ligands. In this work, we find a peculiar non-coplanar magnetic order can be formed with the help of $K$ and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-04 Linli Bai , Ken Chen

Two-dimensional (2D) Heisenberg honeycomb ferromagnets are expected to have interesting topological magnon effects as their magnon dispersion can have Dirac points. The Dirac points are gapped with finite second nearest neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-22 Ysun Choi , Heejun Yang , Jaena Park , Je-Geun Park

The pure Kitaev honeycomb model harbors a quantum spin liquid in zero magnetic fields, while applying finite magnetic fields induces a topological spin liquid with non-Abelian anyonic excitations. This latter phase has been much sought…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-31 Dirk Wulferding , Youngsu Choi , Seung-Hwan Do , Chan Hyeon Lee , Peter Lemmens , Clement Faugeras , Yann Gallais , Kwang-Yong Choi

Motivated by the recent surge of field-driven phenomena discussed for Kitaev materials, in particular the experimental observation of a finite thermal Hall effect and theoretical proposals for the emergence of additional spin liquid phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-28 Yong Hao Gao , Ciarán Hickey , Tao Xiang , Simon Trebst , Gang Chen

We propose a new mechanism for the thermal Hall effect in exchange spin-wave systems, which is induced by the magnon-phonon interaction. Using symmetry arguments, we first show that this effect is quite general, and exists whenever the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Xiaoou Zhang , Yinhan Zhang , Satoshi Okamoto , Di Xiao

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

Heat conduction in ionized plasmas in the presence of magnetic fields is today a fashionable problem. The kinetic theory of plasmas, in the context of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, predicts a Hall-effect-like heat flow due to the presence…

We derive a formula for the thermal conductivity tensor of a ballistic phonon Hall model. It is found that, although the diagonal elements of the conductivity tensor diverge to infinite, the off-diagonal elements are finite,antisymmetric,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-19 Jian-Sheng Wang , Lifa Zhang

Spin liquids may host emergent quasiparticles, collective excitations of the spin degrees of freedom with characteristic features of Majorana fermions, which experimentally are detectable by broad excitation continua due to spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-18 S. Reschke , V. Tsurkan , S. -H. Do , K. -Y. Choi , P. Lunkenheimer , Zhe Wang , A. Loidl

The heat transport of the spin-gapped material (CH_3)_2CHNH_3CuCl_3 (IPA-CuCl_3), a candidate quantum magnet with Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), is studied at ultra-low temperatures and in high magnetic fields. Due to the presence of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-21 Z. Y. Zhao , B. Tong , X. Zhao , L. M. Chen , J. Shi , F. B. Zhang , J. D. Song , S. J. Li , J. C. Wu , H. S. Xu , X. G. Liu , X. F. Sun

We present a theory of the thermal Hall effect in insulating quantum magnets, where the heat current is totally carried by charge-neutral objects such as magnons and spinons. Two distinct types of thermal Hall responses are identified. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-29 Hosho Katsura , Naoto Nagaosa , Patrick A Lee

It has been suggested that a temperature gradient will induce a Leduc-Righi, or thermal Hall, current in the Majorana quasiparticles localized on the surface of class DIII topological insulators, and that the magnitude of this current can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 Michael Stone

We study transport phenomena cross-correlated among the heat and electric currents of magnons and Dirac electrons on the surface of ferromagnetic topological insulators. For a perpendicular magnetization, we calculate magnon- (electron-)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Yusuke Imai , Hiroshi Kohno