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The origin of phonon thermal Hall Effect (THE) observed in a variety of insulators is yet to be identified. Here, we report on the observation of a thermal Hall conductivity in a non-magnetic elemental insulator, with an amplitude exceeding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-16 Xiaokang Li , Yo Machida , Alaska Subedi , Zengwei Zhu , Liang Li , 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…

Phonons are known to generate a thermal Hall effect in certain insulators, including oxides with rare-earth impurities, quantum paraelectrics, multiferroic materials and cuprate Mott insulators. In each case, a special feature of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-01 Lu Chen , Marie-Eve Boulanger , Zhi-Cheng Wang , Fazel Tafti , Louis Taillefer

We present the experimental observation of a drastically enhanced thermal Hall effect in the topological insulator material TlBi$_{0.15}$Sb$_{0.85}$Te$_2$. Although heat transport is dominated by phonons, moderate magnetic fields generate a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Rohit Sharma , Yongjian Wang , Yoichi Ando , Achim Rosch , Thomas Lorenz

We demonstrate theoretically that the thermal Hall effect of magnons in collinear antiferromagnetic insulators is an indicator of magnetic and topological phase transitions in the magnon spectrum. The transversal heat current of magnons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-23 Robin R. Neumann , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

Recent studies have demonstrated that the thermal Hall effect can originate from magnons (magnon Hall effect), phonons (phonon Hall effect), or their combination (magnon-polaron Hall effect). The magnon-polaron Hall effect, first observed…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-19 Mohamed Nawwar , Robin R. Neumann , Jiamin Wen , Alexander Mook , Ingrid Mertig , Joseph P. Heremans

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

The origin of the phonon thermal Hall effect in insulators is a matter of ongoing debate. The large amplitude of the signal in an elemental non-magnetic solid, such as black phosphorus (BP), calls for a minimal mechanism not invoking the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-09 Xiaokang Li , Xiaodong Guo , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

In a growing list of insulators, experiments find that magnetic field induces a misalignment between the heat flux and the thermal gradient vectors. This phenomenon, known as the phonon thermal Hall effect, implies energy flow without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Kamran Behnia

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

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnets have been a fertile playground for the discovery and exploration of physical phenomena and new physics. In this Letter, we report the observation of an anomalous thermal Hall effect (THE)…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-13 Heda Zhang , Chunqiang Xu , Caitlin Carnahan , Milos Sretenovic , Nishchay Suri , Di Xiao , Xianglin Ke

It has been known for decades that a magnetic field can deflect phonons as they flow in response to a thermal gradient, producing a thermal Hall effect. Several recent experiments have revealed ratios of the phonon Hall conductivity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 B. Flebus , A. H. MacDonald

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 $\kappa_{xy}$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-06 Liuke Lyu , William Witczak-Krempa

Thermal transport is a pivotal probe for studying low-energy, charge-neutral quasi-particles in insulating magnets. In this Letter, we report an observation of large magneto-thermal conductivity and thermal Hall effect (THE) in a van der…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-07 Chunqiang Xu , Caitlin Carnahan , Heda Zhang , Milos Sretenovic , Pengpeng Zhang , Di Xiao , Xianglin Ke

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

The phonon thermal Hall effect (THE) is a ubiquitous yet poorly understood phenomenon in insulators. Its microscopic origin remains debated, partly due to significant sample-dependent variations that hint at uncontrolled experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-13 Qiaochao Xiang , Xiaokang Li , Xiaodong Guo , Kamran Behnia , Zengwei Zhu

It has become common knowledge that phonons can generate thermal Hall effect in a wide variety of materials, although the underlying mechanism is still controversial. We study longitudinal $\kappa_{xx}$ and transverse $\kappa_{xy}$ thermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-09 Taiki Uehara , Takumi Ohtsuki , Masafumi Udagawa , Satoru Nakatsuji , Yo Machida

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 Hall effect (THE) in insulator is a remarkable phenomenon that arises from the motion of chargeless quasi-particles under a magnetic field. While magnons or exotic spin excitations were considered as the origin of THE in some…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-03 Xiaobo Jin , Xu Zhang , Wenbo Wan , Hanru Wang , Yihan Jiao , Shiyan Li

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
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