Large effective magnetic fields from chiral phonons in rare-earth halides

J Luo, T Lin, J Zhang, X Chen, ER Blackert, R Xu… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is pivotal for materials' optical, magnetic, topological, and
transport properties. Chiral phonons, characterized by atoms rotating unidirectionally around …

Phonon chirality from impurity scattering in the antiferromagnetic phase of Sr2IrO4

A Ataei, G Grissonnanche, ME Boulanger, L Chen… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
A thermal Hall effect occurs in an increasing number of insulators and is often attributed to
phonons, but the underlying mechanism is not known in most cases. Two main scenarios …

Resonant thermal Hall effect of phonons coupled to dynamical defects

H Guo, DG Joshi, S Sachdev - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
We present computations of the thermal Hall coefficient of phonons scattering off a defect
with multiple energy levels. Using a microscopic formulation based on the Kubo formula, we …

Phonon thermal Hall effect in a metallic spin ice

T Uehara, T Ohtsuki, M Udagawa, S Nakatsuji… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
It has become common knowledge that phonons can generate thermal Hall effect in a wide
variety of materials, although the underlying mechanism is still controversial. We study …

Phonon thermal hall conductivity from scattering with collective fluctuations

L Mangeolle, L Balents, L Savary - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Because electrons and ions form a coupled system, it is a priori clear that the dynamics of
the lattice should reflect symmetry breaking within the electronic degrees of freedom …

Phonon drag thermal Hall effect in metallic strontium titanate

S Jiang, X Li, B Fauqué… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
SrTiO3, a quantum paralectric, displays a detectable phonon thermal Hall effect (THE). Here,
we show that the amplitude of the THE is extremely sensitive to stoichiometry. It drastically …

Role of magnetic ions in the thermal Hall effect of the paramagnetic insulator

A Vallipuram, L Chen, E Campillo, M Mezidi… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In a growing number of materials, phonons have been found to generate a thermal Hall
effect, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Inspired by previous studies that …

Spin-Phonon Coupling in Transition Metal Insulators II: Spin-Orbital Moments, Chiral Phonons and Application to -RuCl

R Dhakal, DAS Kaib, S Biswas, R Valenti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We apply a recently developed first-principles based approach for treating generic spin-
phonon couplings in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling to study $\alpha $-RuCl $ _3 …

Phonon Hall viscosity of ionic crystals

B Flebus, AH MacDonald - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
When time-reversal symmetry is broken, the low-energy description of acoustic lattice
dynamics allows for a dissipationless component of the viscosity tensor, the phonon Hall …

Phonon thermal Hall effect in a non-Kramers paramagnet

H Guo - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
With an increasing number of experiments observing phonon thermal Hall effect in magnets,
it is theoretically desired to have a minimal model for the phonon thermal Hall effect. In this …