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Phonon thermal Hall effect in a metallic spin ice

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  • Taiki Uehara

    (Gakushuin University)

  • Takumi Ohtsuki

    (The University of Tokyo)

  • Masafumi Udagawa

    (Gakushuin University)

  • Satoru Nakatsuji

    (The University of Tokyo
    The University of Tokyo
    The Johns Hopkins University)

  • Yo Machida

    (Gakushuin University)

Abstract

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 κxx and transverse κxy thermal conductivity in Pr2Ir2O7, which is a metallic analog of spin ice. Despite the presence of mobile charge carriers, we find that both κxx and κxy are dominated by phonons. A T/H scaling of κxx unambiguously reveals that longitudinal heat current is substantially impeded by resonant scattering of phonons on paramagnetic spins. Upon cooling, the resonant scattering is strongly affected by a development of spin ice correlation and κxx deviates from the scaling in an anisotropic way with respect to field directions. Strikingly, a set of the κxx and κxy data clearly shows that κxy correlates with κxx in its response to magnetic field including a success of the T/H scaling and its failure at low temperature. This remarkable correlation provides solid evidence that an indispensable role is played by spin-phonon scattering not only for hindering the longitudinal heat conduction, but also for generating the transverse response.

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  • Taiki Uehara & Takumi Ohtsuki & Masafumi Udagawa & Satoru Nakatsuji & Yo Machida, 2022. "Phonon thermal Hall effect in a metallic spin ice," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-8, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-32375-0
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32375-0
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