Topological thermal Hall effect due to Weyl magnons

被引:9
作者
Owerre, S. A. [1 ]
机构
[1] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, 31 Caroline St N, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
关键词
Weyl magnons; topological thermal Hall effect; Berry curvature; noncoplanar spin texture; scalar spin chirality; WEAK FERROMAGNETISM; ROOM-TEMPERATURE; SPIN CHIRALITY; ANTIFERROMAGNET; CONDUCTIVITY; EXCITATIONS; CONDUCTANCE; LATTICE; STATE;
D O I
10.1139/cjp-2018-0059
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present the first theoretical evidence of zero magnetic field topological (anomalous) thermal Hall effect due to Weyl magnons in stacked noncoplanar frustrated kagome antiferromagnets. The Weyl magnons in this system result from macroscopically broken time-reversal symmetry by the scalar spin chirality of noncoplanar chiral spin textures. Most importantly, they come from the lowest excitation, therefore they can be easily observed experimentally at low temperatures due to the population effect. Similar to electronic Weyl nodes close to the Fermi energy, Weyl magnon nodes at the lowest excitation are the most important. Indeed, we show that the topological (anomalous) thermal Hall effect in this system arises from nonvanishing Berry curvature due to Weyl magnon nodes at the lowest excitation, and it depends on their distribution (distance) in momentum space. The present result paves the way to directly probe low excitation Weyl magnons and macroscopically broken time-reversal symmetry in three-dimensional frustrated magnets with the anomalous thermal Hall effect.
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页码:1216 / 1223
页数:8
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