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In this paper we theoretically discuss thermal Hall effect of magnons in insulating N\'{e}el ordered antiferromagnets at zero external magnetic field. We show that for compensated N\'{e}el order the non-zero thermal Hall effect will occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Vladimir A. Zyuzin

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

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

We report an investigation of the phonon thermal Hall effect in single crystal samples of Y$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$, Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$, and DyYTi$_2$O$_7$. We measured the field-linear thermal Hall effect in all three samples. The temperature…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-11 Rohit Sharma , Martin Valldor , Thomas Lorenz

Thermoelectric phenomena in magnetic materials present tantalizing possibilities for manipulating spin-information using heat in future 'spin caloritronic' devices. Key to unraveling their underlying physics is to understand spin-lattice…

A recent observation of thermal Hall effect of magnetic origin in underdoped cuprates calls for critical re-examination of low-energy magnetic dynamics in undoped antiferromagnetic compound on square lattice, where traditional, renormalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-03 Jung Hoon Han , Jin-Hong Park , Patrick A. Lee

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

CrI3 is a prototypical van der Waals ferromagnet with a magnetic honeycomb lattice. Previous inelastic neutron scattering studies have suggested topological nature of its magnetic excitations with a magnon gap at the Dirac points, which are…

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

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

Recently, uncovering the sources of thermal Hall effect in insulators has become an important issue. In the case of ferromagnetic insulators, it is well known that Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction can induce magnon thermal Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Sungjoon Park , Bohm-Jung Yang

We theoretically study the effects of strong magnetoelastic coupling on the transport properties of magnetic insulators. We develop a Boltzmann transport theory for the mixed magnon-phonon modes (magnon polarons) and determine transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Benedetta Flebus , Ka Shen , Takashi Kikkawa , Ken-ichi Uchida , Zhiyong Qiu , Eiji Saitoh , Rembert A. Duine , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We theoretically study the intrinsic thermal Hall and spin Nernst effect in collinear ferrimagnets on a honeycomb lattice with broken inversion symmetry. The broken inversion symmetry allows in-plane Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Sungjoon Park , Naoto Nagaosa , Bohm-Jung Yang

Magnon polarons are novel elementary excitations possessing hybrid magnonic and phononic signatures, and are responsible for many exotic spintronic and magnonic phenomena. Despite long-term sustained experimental efforts in chasing for…

Recent experimental observations of unexpectedly large thermal Hall conductivities, $\kappa_H$, in insulating materials, including the parent compounds of the high temperature superconducting cuprates, likely reflect an extrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Xiao-Qi Sun , Jing-Yuan Chen , Steven A. Kivelson

When a magnon passes through two-dimensional magnetic textures, it will experience a fictitious magnetic field originating from the $3\times 3$ skew-symmetric gauge fields. To date, only one of the three independent components of the gauge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Zhejunyu Jin , Xianglong Yao , Zhenyu Wang , H. Y. Yuan , Zhaozhuo Zeng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

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

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

Phonon polarization in a magnetic field is analyzed in 2D model. It is shown, that at presence of spin-phonon interaction phonon possess elliptic polarization which causes the appearance of heat flux component perpendicular both to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-04 L. A. Maksimov , T. V. Khabarova

Obtaining strong magnetoelectric couplings in bulk materials and heterostructures is an ongoing challenge. We demonstrate that manganite heterostructures of the form ${\rm (Insulator)/(LaMnO_3)_n/(CaMnO_3)_n/(Insulator)}$ show strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-22 Sanjukta Paul , Ravindra Pankaj , Sudhakar Yarlagadda , Pinaki Majumdar , Peter B. Littlewood

Obtaining strong magnetoelectric couplings in bulk materials and heterostructures is an ongoing challenge. We demonstrate that manganite heterostructures of the form ${\rm (Insulator)/(LaMnO_3)_n/(CaMnO_3)_n/(Insulator)}$ show strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Sanjukta Paul , Ravindra Pankaj , Sudhakar Yarlagadda , Pinaki Majumdar , Peter B. Littlewood