Consideration of thermal Hall effect in undoped cuprates
Abstract
A recent observation of the thermal Hall effect of magnetic origin in underdoped cuprates calls for critical reexamination of low-energy magnetic dynamics in an undoped antiferromagnetic compound on square lattice, where traditional, renormalized spin-wave theory was believed to work well. Using the Holstein-Primakoff boson formalism, we find that magnon-based theories can lead to finite Berry curvature in the magnon band once the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya spin interaction is taken into account explicitly, but fail to produce nonzero thermal Hall conductivity. Assuming accidental doping by impurities and magnon scattering off of such impurity sites fails to predict skew scattering at the level of the Born approximation. Local formation of skyrmion defects is also found incapable of generating the magnon thermal Hall effect. Turning to a spinon-based scenario, we write down a simple model by adding spin-dependent diagonal hopping to the well-known π-flux model of spinons. The resulting two-band model has a Chern number in the band structure, and generates thermal Hall conductivity whose magnetic field and temperature dependencies mimic closely the observed thermal Hall signals. In disclaimer, there is no firm microscopic basis of this model and we do not claim to have found an explanation of the data, but given the unexpectedmore »
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- Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Korea)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Samsung Science and Technology Foundation
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1609482
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- OSTI ID: 1546210; OSTI ID: 1777858
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-03ER46076
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 99; Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
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- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Materials Science; Physics
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Han, Jung Hoon, Park, Jin-Hong, and Lee, Patrick A. Consideration of thermal Hall effect in undoped cuprates. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.99.205157.
Han, Jung Hoon, Park, Jin-Hong, & Lee, Patrick A. Consideration of thermal Hall effect in undoped cuprates. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.99.205157
Han, Jung Hoon, Park, Jin-Hong, and Lee, Patrick A. Thu .
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title = {Consideration of thermal Hall effect in undoped cuprates},
author = {Han, Jung Hoon and Park, Jin-Hong and Lee, Patrick A.},
abstractNote = {A recent observation of the thermal Hall effect of magnetic origin in underdoped cuprates calls for critical reexamination of low-energy magnetic dynamics in an undoped antiferromagnetic compound on square lattice, where traditional, renormalized spin-wave theory was believed to work well. Using the Holstein-Primakoff boson formalism, we find that magnon-based theories can lead to finite Berry curvature in the magnon band once the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya spin interaction is taken into account explicitly, but fail to produce nonzero thermal Hall conductivity. Assuming accidental doping by impurities and magnon scattering off of such impurity sites fails to predict skew scattering at the level of the Born approximation. Local formation of skyrmion defects is also found incapable of generating the magnon thermal Hall effect. Turning to a spinon-based scenario, we write down a simple model by adding spin-dependent diagonal hopping to the well-known π-flux model of spinons. The resulting two-band model has a Chern number in the band structure, and generates thermal Hall conductivity whose magnetic field and temperature dependencies mimic closely the observed thermal Hall signals. In disclaimer, there is no firm microscopic basis of this model and we do not claim to have found an explanation of the data, but given the unexpected nature of the experimental observation, it is hoped this work could serve as a step towards reaching some level of understanding.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.99.205157},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 20,
volume = 99,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
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