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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 31: Frustrated Magnets - Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling 1 (joint session TT/MA)
MA 31.7: Talk
Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 11:30–11:45, HSZ 304
Thermal Transport of the Kitaev spin-liquid candidate α-RuCl3 — Richard Hentrich1, •Matthias Gillig1, Xiaochen Hong1, Federico Caglieris1, Maria Roslova2, Anna Isaeva1, 2, Thomas Doert2, Uli Zeitler3, Matija Culo3, Maryam Shahrokhvand3, Bernd Büchner1, 4, and Christian Hess1, 4 — 1Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden, Germany — 2Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, TU Dresden, Germany — 3High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML-EFML), Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands — 4Center for Transport and Devices, TU Dresden, Germany
α-RuCl3 currently is the best known candidate material for realizing Kitaev physics.
Previous experiments on the longitudinal thermal conductivity revealed a strong coupling of he magnetic and phononic subsystems which results in a strongly magnetic field dependent thermal conductivity due to the field-induced opening of a gap [1]. Furthermore, a sizeable thermal Hall effect has been observed which triggered the search for signatures of fractionalized thermal transport due to topological edge modes near an in-plane field value of 8 T where long-range magnetic order is suppressed but the spin gap is still small [2]. Here we focus on low-temperature and high-field (up to 30 T) studies of the thermal transport which suggest the persistence of low-energy field-dependent modes up to the highest field studied at 30 T.
[1] R. Hentrich et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117240 (2018)
[2] Y. Kasahara et al., Nature 559, 227 (2018)