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Quantization of the thermal Hall conductivity at small Hall angles

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 نشر من قبل Mengxing Ye
 تاريخ النشر 2018
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We consider the effect of coupling between phonons and a chiral Majorana edge in a gapped chiral spin liquid with Ising anyons (e.g., Kitaevs non-Abelian spin liquid on the honeycomb lattice). This is especially important in the regime in which the longitudinal bulk heat conductivity $kappa_{xx}$ due to phonons is much larger than the expected quantized thermal Hall conductance $kappa_{xy}^{rm q}=frac{pi T}{12} frac{k_B^2}{hbar}$ of the ideal isolated edge mode, so that the thermal Hall angle, i.e., the angle between the thermal current and the temperature gradient, is small. By modeling the interaction between a Majorana edge and bulk phonons, we show that the exchange of energy between the two subsystems leads to a transverse component of the bulk current and thereby an {em effective} Hall conductivity. Remarkably, the latter is equal to the quantized value when the edge and bulk can thermalize, which occurs for a Hall bar of length $L gg ell$, where $ell$ is a thermalization length. We obtain $ell sim T^{-5}$ for a model of the Majorana-phonon coupling. We also find that the quality of the quantization depends on the means of measuring the temperature and, surprisingly, a more robust quantization is obtained when the lattice, not the spin, temperature is measured. We present general hydrodynamic equations for the system, detailed results for the temperature and current profiles, and an estimate for the coupling strength and its temperature dependence based on a microscopic model Hamiltonian. Our results may explain recent experiments observing a quantized thermal Hall conductivity in the regime of small Hall angle, $kappa_{xy}/kappa_{xx} sim 10^{-3}$, in $alpha$-RuCl$_3$.



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