RuCl3 is currently the primary material candidate for realizing the Kitaev Honeycomb model and its exotic Majorana fermion excitations. We have measured the longitudinal and Hall thermal conductivity of RuCl3 down to He3 temperatures (0.3 K). The longitudinal thermal conductivity displays periodic oscillations that may be indicative of Landau quantization. We also observe a thermal Hall conductivity similar to that observed by Kasahara et al. [1] and will provide updates on our attempts to verify the quantization.
[1] Kasahara et al. Nature 559, 227-231 (2018).
*This research was supported by the Department of Energy (DE-SC0017863), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s EPiQS initiative through grants GBMF4539, and by the US National Science Foundation (grant DMR 1420541).
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Presenters
Peter Czajka
Princeton University
Authors
Peter Czajka
Princeton University
Tong Gao
Department of Physics, Princeton University
Princeton University
Max Hirschberger
RIKEN
Paula Lampen-kelley
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Arnab Banerjee
Purdue University
Jiaqiang Yan
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Lab
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Lab
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Materials Science and Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Materials Science and Technology Division
David George Mandrus
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Labratory
Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee
University of Tennessee
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
Oakridge National Laboratory
Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Department of Physics, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Materials Science and Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Materials Science and Technology Division
Department of Materials Science, The University of Tennessee
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Stephen E Nagler
Oak Ridge National Lab
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oakridge National Laboratory
Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
