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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 theoretically study magnetic and topological properties of antiferromagnetic kagome spin systems in the presence of both in- and out-of-plane Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. In materials such as the iron jarosites, the in-plane…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Pontus Laurell , Gregory A. Fiete

In light of recent experimental data indicating a substantial thermal Hall effect in square lattice antiferromagnetic Mott insulators, we investigate whether a simple Mott insulator can sustain a finite thermal Hall effect. We verify that…

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Altermagnets, recently proposed as a third category of collinear magnets, combine the features of zero net magnetization in antiferromagnets and the spin splitting in ferromagnets. While abundant spectroscopic evidence for altermagnetism…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-24 Wenbo Wan , Xu Zhang , Yixuan Luo , Yanfeng Guo , Shiyan Li

Using a two-dimensional square lattice Heisenberg model with a Rashba-type Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, we demonstrate that chiral spin fluctuations can give rise to a thermal Hall effect in the absence of any static spin texture or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Caitlin Carnahan , Yinhan Zhang , Di Xiao

In an easy-plane antiferromagnet with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), magnons are subject to an effective spin-momentum locking. An in-plane temperature gradient can generate interfacial accumulation of magnons with a specified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

In the pseudogap phase of the cuprate, a thermal Hall response of neutral objects has been recently detected experimentally, which continuously persists into the antiferromagnetic insulating phase. In this work, we study the transport…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-02 Zhi-Jian Song , Jia-Xin Zhang , Zheng-Yu Weng

Topological magnon bands and magnon Hall effect in insulating collinear ferromagnets are induced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) even at zero magnetic field. In the geometrically frustrated star lattice, a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-17 S. A. Owerre

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 propose a theory for thermal Hall transport mediated by magnons to address the impact of their damping resulting from magnon-magnon interactions in insulating magnets. This phenomenon is anticipated to be particularly significant in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-10 Shinnosuke Koyama , Joji Nasu

At low temperatures, the thermal conductivity of spin excitations in a magnetic insulator can exceed that of phonons. However, because they are charge neutral, the spin waves are not expected to display a thermal Hall effect in a magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-09 Max Hirschberger , Robin Chisnell , Young S. Lee , N. P. Ong

We study magnon-polaron hybrid states, mediated by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and magnetoelastic interactions, in a two-dimensional ferromagnetic insulator. The magnetic system consists of both in-plane and flexural acoustic and optical phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Jostein N. Kløgetvedt , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

We derive the anomalous Hall contributions arising from dipolar interactions to diffusive spin transport in magnetic insulators. Magnons, the carriers of angular momentum in these systems, are shown to have a non-zero Berry curvature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Pieter M. Gunnink , Rembert A. Duine , Andreas Rückriegel

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

In frustrated magnets the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction arising from spin-orbit coupling can induce a magnetic long-range order. Here, we report a theoretical prediction of thermal Hall effect in frustrated kagom\'e magnets such as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-23 S. A. Owerre

Topology applied to condensed matter is an important area of research and technology, and topological magnetic excitations have recently become an active field of study. This paper presents a general discussion of magnon Hall transport in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-24 P. G. de Oliveira , A. S. T. Pires

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

In this Letter we present a comprehensive study of topological magnon bands and thermal Hall effect in non-collinear antiferromagnetic systems on the honeycomb lattice with an intrinsic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 S. A. Owerre

By analyzing the spin-group symmetry of magnons, we establish two generalized Onsager's relations in the magnon thermal Hall effect, which reveals the rich and complicated structures of the magnon Berry curvature in the parameter space of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Jikun Zhou , Yang Gao , Qian Niu

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