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平面平行声子霍尔效应与局域对称性破缺

Planar parallel phonon Hall effect and local symmetry breaking

Quentin Barthélemy, Étienne Lefrançois, Lu Chen, Ashvini Vallipuram, Katharina M. Zoch, Cornelius Krellner, Pascal Puphal, Louis Taillefer

AI总结:

本文在Y-kapellasite顺磁区观测到纯声子起源的平面平行热霍尔效应,并将其归因于氢原子在33 K以上随机分布所导致的局域对称性破缺,为绝缘体中声子霍尔效应提供了具体例证。

摘要:

Y-kapellasite [Y3Cu9(OH)19Cl8] 是一种受挫反铁磁绝缘体,直到约 2 K 的极低 Néel 温度仍保持顺磁性。我们在该材料的顺磁区进行研究,此时声子是唯一可能的热载流子,报告观测到一个明确来自声子的平面平行热霍尔效应。这相对于 Kitaev 量子自旋液体候选材料 α-RuCl3 和 Na2Co2TeO6 具有优势,因为原则上后者可能涉及其他热载流子 [1-4]。事实上,Y-kapellasite 在约 33 K 以下经历一个结构相变,该相变被归因于氢原子的位置冻结。在此相变温度以上,整体晶体对称性禁止平面平行信号的存在——这与 Na2Co2TeO6 和铜氧化物中的情况相同 [3-5]。这表明局域对称性破缺是声子霍尔效应的根源。在此背景下,Y-kapellasite 相对于 Na2Co2TeO6(具有高浓度的 Na 无序和堆垛层错)和铜氧化物(具有来自掺杂剂和氧空位的高浓度无序)的优势在于其干净的结构,其中可用于局域对称性破缺的唯一自由度是在 33 K 以上随机分布在六个等价位置上的氢原子。这为局域对称性破缺导致广泛绝缘体中声子霍尔效应的一般思想提供了一个具体而明确的案例。

英文摘要:

Y-kapellasite [Y3Cu9(OH)19Cl8] is a frustrated antiferromagnetic insulator which remains paramagnetic down to a remarkably low Néel temperature of about 2 K. Having studied this material in the paramagnetic regime, in which phonons are the only possible heat carriers, we report the observation of a planar parallel thermal Hall effect coming unambiguously from phonons. This is an advantage over the Kitaev quantum spin liquid candidates α-RuCl3 and Na2Co2TeO6 where in principle other heat carriers can be involved [1-4]. As it happens, Y-kapellasite undergoes a structural transition attributed to the positional freezing of a hydrogen atom below about 33 K. Above this transition, the global crystal symmetry forbids the existence of a planar parallel signal - the same situation as in Na2Co2TeO6 and cuprates [3-5]. This points to the notion of a local symmetry breaking at the root of the phonon Hall effect. In this context, the advantage of Y-kapellasite over Na2Co2TeO6 (with high levels of Na disorder and stacking faults) and cuprates (with high levels of disorder coming from dopants and oxygen vacancies) is its clean structure, where the only degree of freedom available for local symmetry breaking is this hydrogen atom randomly distributed over six equivalent positions above 33 K. This provides a specific and concrete case for the general idea of local symmetry breaking leading to the phonon Hall effect in a wide range of insulators.

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