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Extending the notion of symmetry protected topological phases to insulating antiferromagnets (AFs) described in terms of opposite magnetic dipole moments associated with the magnetic N$\acute{{\rm{e}}} $el order, we establish a bosonic…

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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…

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In a collinear antiferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy, symmetry guarantees that the spin wave modes are doubly degenerate. The two modes carry opposite spin angular momentum and exhibit opposite chirality. Using a honeycomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Ran Cheng , Satoshi Okamoto , Di Xiao

We investigate the thermal Hall effect in a Kitaev-Heisenberg system, a model for Kitaev candidate $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, in the presence of the coupling between spin and phonon arising from chlorine atoms' vibration. We observe that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-27 Shaozhi Li , Satoshi Okamoto

The Hall effect, the anomalous Hall effect and the spin Hall effect are fundamental transport processes in solids arising from the Lorentz force and the spin-orbit coupling respectively. The quantum versions of the Hall effect and the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Rui Yu , Wei Zhang , H. J. Zhang , S. C. Zhang , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

We theoretically investigate a nonlinear spin Hall effect in $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric antiferromagnetic metals, which serve as an efficient spin current generator. We elucidate that an emergent spin-dependent Berry curvature dipole is a…

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We develop a symmetry-controlled theory of anisotropic thermomagnonic torques in insulating altermagnets. We identify a spin-splitter magnonic torque linked to thermally generated, sublattice-odd spin currents and an anisotropic entropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Edward Schwartz , Hamed Vakili , Alexey A. Kovalev

Detecting the orientation of the N\'eel vector is a major research topic in antiferromagnetic spintronics. Here we recognize the intrinsic nonlinear Hall effect, which is independent of the relaxation time, as a prominent contribution to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Chong Wang , Yang Gao , Di Xiao

We establish symmetry-based selection rules for the intrinsic nonlinear thermal Hall effect driven by the quantum metric in altermagnets. We show that a nonvanishing nonlinear thermal Hall conductivity $\kappa_{xyy}$ requires three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Gunn Kim

We investigate the intrinsic anomalous thermal Hall effect in d-wave altermagnets, where a transverse heat current is generated by a longitudinal temperature gradient in the absence of a magnetic field, with the leading response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Rishi G. Gopalakrishnan , Srimayi Korrapati , Sumanta Tewari

We study the nature of the debated thermal Hall effect in the candidate Kitaev material $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$. Without assuming the existence of a gapped spin liquid, we show that a realistic minimal spin model in the canted zigzag phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-27 Shuyi Li , Han Yan , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

The magnetic spin Hall effect is a time-reversal-odd phenomenon in which spin current is induced by the charge current. In the presence of a spin-orbit coupling and/or noncolinear magnetism, however, spin current is not uniquely defined.…

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Magnetic excitations in ferromagnetic systems with a noncollinear ground state magnetization experience a fictitious magnetic field due to the equilibrium magnetic texture. Here, we investigate how such fictitious fields lead to thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Kevin A. van Hoogdalem , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Daniel Loss

The efficient detection of the magnetism in 2D antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulators is crucial for the advancement of 2D AFM spintronics and remains a challenging problem. In this letter, we introduce the magnon nonlinear Hall current, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Jinyang Ni , Yuanjun Jin , Guoqing Chang

The Kitaev quantum spin liquid displays the fractionalization of quantum spins into Majorana fermions. The emergent Majorana edge current is predicted to manifest itself in the form of a finite thermal Hall effect, a feature commonly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-30 Y. Kasahara , K. Sugii , T. Ohnishi , M. Shimozawa , M. Yamashita , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , J. Nasu , Y. Motome , T. Shibauchi , Y. Matsuda

Quite recently, magnon Hall effect of spin excitations has been observed experimentally on the kagome and pyrochlore lattices. Thermal Hall conductivity $\kappa^{xy}$, changes sign as a function of magnetic field or temperature on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-26 S. A. Owerre

We present a quantum Hall effect of magnons in two-dimensional clean insulating magnets at finite temperature. Through the Aharonov-Casher effect, a magnon moving in an electric field acquires a geometric phase and forms Landau levels in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Kouki Nakata , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We show that a $d$-wave altermagnet can be transformed into a Chern insulator by irradiating it with elliptically polarized light from a high-frequency photon beam. We further explore the intrinsic anomalous thermoelectric and thermal Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Fang Qin , Xiao-Bin Qiang

Quasiparticle excitations in material solids often experience a fictitious gauge field, which can be a potential source of intriguing transport phenomena. Here, we show that low-energy excitations in insulating antiferromagnetic skyrmion…

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