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Spin Thermal Hall Conductivity of a Kagome Antiferromagnet
Hayato Doki1, Masatoshi Akazawa1, Hyun-Yong Lee1
1The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-8581, Japan.
Abstract:
A clear thermal Hall signal (κ_{xy}) was observed in the spin-liquid phase of the S=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet Ca kapellasite [CaCu_{3}(OH)_{6}Cl_{2}·0.6H_{2}O]. We found that κ_{xy} is well reproduced, both qualitatively and quantitatively, using the Schwinger-boson mean-field theory with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction of D/J∼0.1. In particular, κ_{xy} values of Ca kapellasite and those of another kagome antiferromagnet, volborthite, converge to one single curve in simulations modeled using Schwinger bosons, indicating a common temperature dependence of κ_{xy} for the spins of a kagome antiferromagnet.
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