Ballistic magnon heat conduction and possible Poiseuille flow in the helimagnetic insulator Cu2OSeO3

Prasai, N.; Trump, B. A.; Marcus, G. G.; Akopyan, A.; Huang, S. X.; McQueen, T. M.; Cohn, J. L.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.95.224407

Title: Ballistic magnon heat conduction and possible Poiseuille flow in the helimagnetic insulator Cu₂OSeO₃

Journal Article · Mon Jun 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.95.224407· OSTI ID:1657463

Prasai, N. ^[1]; Trump, B. A. ^[2]; Marcus, G. G. ^[2]; Akopyan, A. ^[1]; Huang, S. X. ^[1]; McQueen, T. M. ^[2]; Cohn, J. L. ^[1]

Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (United States)
Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)

Herein we report on the observation of magnon thermal conductivity $κ_{m} ~ 70$ W/mK near 5 K in the helimagnetic insulator ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$ , exceeding that measured in any other ferromagnet by almost two orders of magnitude. Ballistic, boundary-limited transport for both magnons and phonons is established below 1 K, and Poiseuille flow of magnons is proposed to explain a magnon mean-free path substantially exceeding the specimen width for the least defective specimens in the range $2 K < T < 10$ K. These observations establish ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$ as a model system for studying long-wavelength magnon dynamics.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (United States); Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0008607; FG02-08ER46544

OSTI ID:: 1657463

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1361444

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 22; ISSN 2469-9950

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