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arXiv 2006.09392cond-mat.mes-hall
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热霍尔电导量子化的温度增强

Temperature enhancement of thermal Hall conductance quantization

I. C. Fulga, Yuval Oreg, Alexander D. Mirlin, Ady Stern, David F. Mross

摘要:

对非阿贝尔准粒子的探索激发了数十年的实验和理论努力,其中直接探测器的稀缺构成了一个关键挑战。在它们最清晰的特征中,有一个霍尔热导率,其数值为自然单位$ π^2 k_B^2 T /3 h$的半整数($T$是温度,$h$是普朗克常量,$k_B$是玻耳兹曼常量)。最近在量子霍尔系统和磁绝缘体中确实观察到了这样的值。我们表明,由于淬火无序而形成的非拓扑“热金属”相可能通过很好地逼近商标量化热霍尔响应而伪装成非阿贝尔相。值得注意的是,这里的量子化随着温度的提高而提高,与完全带隙的系统相反。我们提供了这种效果的数值证据,并讨论其可能的影响,上述实验。

英文摘要:

The quest for non-Abelian quasiparticles has inspired decades of experimental and theoretical efforts, where the scarcity of direct probes poses a key challenge. Among their clearest signatures is a thermal Hall conductance with quantized half-integer value in natural units $ π^2 k_B^2 T /3 h$ ($T$ is temperature, $h$ the Planck constant, $k_B$ the Boltzmann constant). Such a value was indeed recently observed in a quantum-Hall system and a magnetic insulator. We show that a non-topological "thermal metal" phase that forms due to quenched disorder may disguise as a non-Abelian phase by well approximating the trademark quantized thermal Hall response. Remarkably, the quantization here improves with temperature, in contrast to fully gapped systems. We provide numerical evidence for this effect and discuss its possible implications for the aforementioned experiments.

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