Searching for quantum oscillations in the thermal transport properties

ORAL

Abstract

The observations of the Righi-Leduc (thermal Hall) effect without the Lorentz force leads to the debate on the origins of fermions versus bosons. The recent report of quantum oscillations in Kitaev spin liquid points to a possible resolution. Quantum oscillations due to the Landau quantization of electrons in a magnetic field would most likely capture only the fermionic thermal transport effect. Thus, searching for the oscillatory thermal Hall effect provides a crucial potential path to separate the fermionic and bosonic contributions. We report the observation of quantum oscillations in the longitudinal and transverse magnetothermal effect of a correlated Kagome superconductor. The temperature variance of the oscillatory components indicates that the Fermi Liquid theory can describe the pattern of these oscillations. The results present the oscillatory thermal Hall effect as a powerful probe to the correlated quantum materials.

*National Science Foundation under Award No. DMR- 1707620 and No. DMR-2004288 (transport measurements)Department of Energy under Award No. DE-SC0020184 (magnetization measurements)

Presenters

  • Dechen Zhang

    • University of Michigan

Authors

  • Dechen Zhang

    • University of Michigan
  • Kuan-Wen Chen

    • University of Michigan
  • Guoxin Zheng

    • University of Michigan
  • Ziji Xiang

    • University of Science and Technology of China
    • University of Michigan
  • Fanghang Yu

    • University of Science and Technology of China
  • Jianjun Ying

    • University of Science and Technology of China
  • Xianhui Chen

    • Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
    • University of Science and Technology of China
  • Lu Li

    • University of Michigan