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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…

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The thermal Hall conductivity $\kappa_{xy}$ and Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy}$ in CeCoIn$_5$ are used to determine the Lorenz number ${\cal L}_H$ at low temperature $T$. This enables the separation of the observed thermal conductivity into…

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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…

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We compute magnon Hall conductivities in a minimal model of a two-dimensional altermagnet. To do so, we derive an analytic expression for the relevant quantum geometric tensor describing two-band bosonic Bogoliubov Hamiltonians, providing…

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Measurements of the transverse (k_{xy}) and longitudinal (k_{xx}) thermal conductivity in high magnetic fields are used to separate the quasiparticle thermal conductivity (k_{xx}^{el}) of the CuO_2-planes from the phononic thermal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Zeini , A. Freimuth , B. Büchner , R. Gross , A. P. Kampf , M. Kläser , G. Müller-Vogt

The thermal Hall effect, which arises when heat flows transverse to an applied thermal gradient, has become an important observable in the study of quantum materials. Recent experiments found a large thermal Hall conductivity $\kappa_{xy}$…

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We propose a general recipe for chiral topological superconductor (TSC) in two dimensions with multiple $N$ chiral Majorana fermion modes from a quantied anomalous Hall insulator in proximity to an s-wave superconductor with nontrivial band…

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We investigate the thermoelectric current and heat conductance in a chiral Josephson contact on a surface of a 3D topological insulator, covered with superconducting and magnetic insulator films. The contact consists of two junctions of…

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We have studied the Hall effect in superconducting tantalum nitride films. We find a large contribution to the Hall conductivity near the superconducting transition, which we can track to temperatures well above $T_c$ and magnetic fields…

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Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-14 Chunqiang Xu , Heda Zhang , Caitlin Carnahan , Pengpeng Zhang , Di Xiao , Xianglin Ke

Chiral conformal field theories are characterized by a ground-state current at finite temperature, that could be observed, e.g. in the edge excitations of the quantum Hall effect. We show that the corresponding thermal conductance is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Andrea Cappelli , Marina Huerta , Guillermo R. Zemba

We apply a recently developed first-principles based approach for treating generic spin-phonon couplings in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling to study $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$. Of particular focus is the potential for this material to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-12 Ramesh Dhakal , David A. S. Kaib , Kate Choi , Sananda Biswas , Roser Valenti , Stephen M. Winter

Presented is the theory of thermal Hall conductivity $\kappa_{xy}$ in the vortex state of high temperature cuprate superconductors in the clean limit. We show that $\lim_{T \to 0} \kappa_{xy}/T$ is a {\em staircase} function of 1/B with an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Oskar Vafek , Zlatko Tesanovic

The spin-orbit coupled Mott insulator $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ has emerged as a prime candidate for realizing the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (KQSL), characterized by Majorana quasiparticles, whose edge states exhibit a distinctive half-integer…

It is now known that in addition to electrons, other quasi-particles such as phonons and magnons can also generate a thermal Hall signal. Graphite is a semimetal with extremely mobile charge carriers of both signs and a large lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Qiaochao Xiang , Xiaokang Li , Xiaodong Guo , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

Intrinsic two-dimensional magnets serve as a good platform to explore collective, charge-neutral and low-energy excitations. Distinguishing the crucial role of them in experimental aspect remains a challenge for decades. Here, we study the…

We study on transport and magnetic properties of hydrated and lithium-intercalated $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, Li$_x$RuCl$_3 \cdot y$H$_2$O, for investigating the effect on mobile-carrier doping into candidate materials for a realization of a Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-26 Yoshinori Imai , Katsuya Konno , Yoshinao Hasegawa , Takuya Aoyama , Kenya Ohgushi

The thermal conductivity of the (2+1)-dimensional NJL model in the presence of a constant magnetic field is calculated in the mean-field approximation and its different asymptotic regimes are analyzed. Taking into account the dynamical…

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