Magnon Chirality Hall Effect in Antiferromagnet
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Abstract
In a collinear antiferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy, symmetry dictates that the spin wave modes must be doubly degenerate with opposite chirality. We show that in the presence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, there exist a magnon chirality Hall effect, where magnons with opposite chirality flow to opposite transverse edges when an in-plane temperature gradient is applied. Possible material candidates to realize this effect is also discussed.
*This work is supported by DOE BES (No. DE-SC0012509) and AFOSR (No. FA9550-12-1-0479)
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