Sound attenuation in the hyperhoneycomb Kitaev spin liquid

Feng, Kexin; Shiralieva, Aysel; Perkins, Natalia B.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.106.144424

Sound attenuation in the hyperhoneycomb Kitaev spin liquid

Journal Article · Thu Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Physical Review. B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.106.144424· OSTI ID:1893852

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Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); University of Minnesota
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (France)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)

In recent years, it has been shown that the phonon dynamics may serve as an indirect probe of fractionalization of spin degrees of freedom. Furthermore we propose that the sound attenuation measurements allows for the characterization and identification of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid on the hyperhoneycomb lattice, which is particularly interesting since the strong Kitaev interaction was observed in the the hyperhoneycomb magnet β–Li₂IrO₃. To this end we consider the low-temperature scattering between acoustic phonons and gapless Majorana fermions with nodal-line band structure. Here, we find that the sound attenuation has a characteristic angular dependence, which is explicitly shown for the high-symmetry planes at temperatures below the flux energy gap.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018056

OSTI ID:: 1893852

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Journal Name: Physical Review. B Journal Issue: 14 Vol. 106; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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