Thermal Hall effect in undoped cuprates

ORAL

Abstract

Recent experiments on thermal Hall conductivity in undoped cuprates observed an unexpectedly large result. Several mechanisms of phonon Hall effect have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. Here by using the Kubo formula with the energy magnetization included we show that a magnetic field acting on phonons in undoped cuprates naturally gives a nonzero intrinsic thermal Hall effect. Temperature-dependent thermal Hall conductivity κH is estimated by using phonon dispersions and the Berry connections of both the phonon bands and the electrons, which will be discussed in a model of LCO. The magnetic-field dependence of κH will also be shown in the same model.

*This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515.

Presenters

  • Sijia Zhao

    • Stanford University

Authors

  • Sijia Zhao

    • Stanford University
  • Thomas P Devereaux

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    • Stanford University