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Planar thermal Hall effect from phonons in a Kitaev candidate material

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  • Lu Chen

    (Université de Sherbrooke)

  • Étienne Lefrançois

    (Université de Sherbrooke)

  • Ashvini Vallipuram

    (Université de Sherbrooke)

  • Quentin Barthélemy

    (Université de Sherbrooke)

  • Amirreza Ataei

    (Université de Sherbrooke)

  • Weiliang Yao

    (School of Physics, Peking University)

  • Yuan Li

    (School of Physics, Peking University)

  • Louis Taillefer

    (Université de Sherbrooke
    Canadian Institute for Advanced Research)

Abstract

The thermal Hall effect has emerged as a potential probe of exotic excitations in spin liquids. In the Kitaev magnet $${{\alpha }}$$ α -RuCl3, the thermal Hall conductivity $${{{\kappa }}}_{{{xy}}}$$ κ x y has been attributed to Majorana fermions, chiral magnons, or phonons. Theoretically, the former two types of heat carriers can generate a “planar” $${{{\kappa }}}_{{{xy}}}$$ κ x y , whereby the magnetic field is parallel to the heat current, but it is unknown whether phonons also could. Here we show that a planar $${{{\kappa }}}_{{{xy}}}$$ κ x y is present in another Kitaev candidate material, Na2Co2TeO6. Based on the striking similarity between $${{{\kappa }}}_{{{xy}}}$$ κ x y and the phonon-dominated thermal conductivity $${{{\kappa }}}_{{{xx}}}$$ κ x x , we attribute the effect to phonons. We observe a large difference in $${{{\kappa }}}_{{{xy}}}$$ κ x y between different configurations of heat current and magnetic field, which reveals that the direction of heat current matters in determining the planar $${{{\kappa }}}_{{{xy}}}$$ κ x y . Our observation calls for a re-evaluation of the planar $${{{\kappa }}}_{{{xy}}}$$ κ x y observed in $$\,{{\alpha }}$$ α -RuCl3.

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  • Lu Chen & Étienne Lefrançois & Ashvini Vallipuram & Quentin Barthélemy & Amirreza Ataei & Weiliang Yao & Yuan Li & Louis Taillefer, 2024. "Planar thermal Hall effect from phonons in a Kitaev candidate material," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-7, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-47858-5
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47858-5
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