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We show that the two dimensional spatial inversion-symmetry (SIS) broken square lattice antiferromagnet with easy-plane spin anisotropy exhibits a thermal Hall effect and the edge modes characterized by the Z 2 topological invariant. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-22 Masataka Kawano , Chisa Hotta

The Phonon Hall Viscosity is the leading term evincing time-reversal symmetry breaking in the low energy description of lattice phonons. It may generate phonon Berry curvature, and can be observed experimentally through the acoustic Faraday…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-09 Mengxing Ye , Lucile Savary , Leon Balents

The anomalous Hall effect in a multiband tight-binding model is numerically studied taking into account both elastic scattering by disorder and inelastic scattering by the electron-phonon interaction. The Hall conductivity is obtained as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-19 Atsuo Shitade , Naoto Nagaosa

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

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

We study the quantum anomalous thermal Hall effect in a topological superconductor which possesses an integer bulk topological number, and supports Majorana excitations on the surface. To realize the quantum thermal Hall effect, a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Yosuke Shimizu , Ai Yamakage , Kentaro Nomura

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

The Kane-Mele model is known to show a quantized spin Hall conductivity at zero temperature. Including Hubbard interactions at each site leads to a quantum phase transition to an XY antiferromagnet at sufficiently high interaction strength.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-22 D. Lessnich , C. Gauvin-Ndiaye , Roser Valentí , A. -M. S. Tremblay

Negative longitudinal magnetoresistance, in the presence of an external magnetic field parallel to the direction of an applied current, has recently been experimentally verified in Weyl semimetals and topological insulators in the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 S. Nandy , A. Taraphder , Sumanta Tewari

Magnetically-doped topological insulators are intensely studied in the search for exotic phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect. The interplay of electronic and impurity degrees of freedom leads to the Kondo effect, an increase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-03 Jie Wang , Dimitrie Culcer

The Hall coefficient exhibits anomalous behavior in lightly doped Mott insulators. For strongly interacting electrons its computation has been challenged by analytical and numerical obstacles. We calculate the leading contributions in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-21 Ilia Khait , Sauri Bhattacharyya , Abhisek Samanta , Assa Auerbach

We point out and explicitly demonstrate a close connection that exists between featureless Mott insulators and fractional quantum Hall liquids. Using magnetic Wannier states as the single-particle basis in the lowest Landau level (LLL), we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov

We have studied the impact of non-local electronic correlations at all length scales on the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition in the unfrustrated two-dimensional Hubbard model. Combining dynamical vertex approximation, lattice quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-05 T. Schäfer , F. Geles , D. Rost , G. Rohringer , E. Arrigoni , K. Held , N. Blümer , M. Aichhorn , A. Toschi

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

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

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.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Atsuo Shitade

The effect of thermal fluctuation on the spin-chirality-induced anomalous Hall effect in itinerant magnets is theoretically studied. Considering a triangular-lattice model as an example, we find that a multiple-spin scattering induced by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Yasuyuki Kato , Hiroaki Ishizuka

Heat transport mediated by Majorana edge modes in a magnetic insulator leads to a half-integer thermal quantum Hall conductance, which has recently been reported for the two-dimensional honeycomb material $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$. While the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-02 T. Yokoi , S. Ma , Y. Kasahara , S. Kasahara , T. Shibauchi , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , J. Nasu , Y. Motome , C. Hickey , S. Trebst , Y. Matsuda

We discuss quantum Hall effects in a gapped insulator on a periodic two-dimensional lattice. We derive a universal relation among the the quantized Hall conductivity, and charge and flux densities per physical unit cell. This follows from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-04 Yuan-Ming Lu , Ying Ran , Masaki Oshikawa

We show that a finite Hall effect in zero applied magnetic field occurs for partially filled bands in certain time-reversal violating states with zero net flux per unit-cell. These states are the Magneto-chiral states with parameters in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 Yan He , P. A. Lee , C. M. Varma