Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

11-18-2016

Citation

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217203 (2016)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.217203

Comments

© 2016 American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

We predict that a temperature gradient can induce a magnon-mediated spin Hall response in an antiferromagnet with nontrivial magnon Berry curvature. We develop a linear response theory which gives a general condition for a Hall current to be well defined, even when the thermal Hall response is forbidden by symmetry. We apply our theory to a honeycomb lattice antiferromagnet and discuss a role of magnon edge states in a finite geometry.

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