Phonon thermal transport shaped by strong spin-phonon scattering in a Kitaev material Na2Co2TeO6

X Hong, M Gillig, W Yao, L Janssen, V Kocsis… - npj Quantum …, 2024 - nature.com
The report of a half-quantized thermal Hall effect and oscillatory structures in the
magnetothermal conductivity in the Kitaev material α-RuCl3 have sparked a strong debate …

Thermal Hall effects due to topological spin fluctuations in YMnO3

HL Kim, T Saito, H Yang, H Ishizuka, MJ Coak… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The thermal Hall effect in magnetic insulators has been considered a powerful method for
examining the topological nature of charge-neutral quasiparticles such as magnons. Yet …

Spin-Phonon Coupling in Transition Metal Insulators: General Computational Approach and Application to MnPSe

R Dhakal, S Griffith, K Choi, SM Winter - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00659, 2024 - arxiv.org
Spin-phonon coupling underlies a number of diverse range of phenomena of recent interest,
particularly in transition metal insulators with strong spin-orbit effects, where it may give rise …

Phonon thermal Hall effect in nonmagnetic

R Sharma, M Valldor, T Lorenz - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
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 …

Discovery of universal phonon thermal Hall effect in crystals

X Jin, X Zhang, W Wan, H Wang, Y Jiao, S Li - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
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 …

Using magnetic dynamics to measure the spin gap in a candidate Kitaev material

X Jiang, Q Qiu, C Peng, H Jang, W Chen, X Jin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Materials potentially hosting Kitaev spin-liquid states are considered crucial for realizing
topological quantum computing. However, the intricate nature of spin interactions within …

Thermal Hall effect driven by phonon-magnon hybridization in a honeycomb antiferromagnet

Q Meng, X Li, L Zhao, C Dong, Z Zhu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The underlying mechanism of the thermal Hall effect (THE) generated by phonons in a
variety of insulators is yet to be identified. Here, we report on a sizeable thermal Hall …

Spin-Phonon Coupling in Transition Metal Insulators II: Spin-Orbital Moments, Chiral Phonons and Application to -RuCl

R Dhakal, DAS Kaib, S Biswas, R Valenti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We apply a recently developed first-principles based approach for treating generic spin-
phonon couplings in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling to study $\alpha $-RuCl $ _3 …