The phonon Hall effect: theory and application

Details The phonon Hall effect: theory and application The phonon Hall effect: theory and application

2011-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/1101.5229v2

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 23, 305402 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

19 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/23/30/305402

We present a systematic theory of the phonon Hall effect in a ballistic crystal lattice system, and apply it on the kagome lattice which is ubiquitous in various real materials. By proposing a proper second quantization for the non-Hermite Hamiltonian in the polarization-vector space, we obtain a new heat current density operator with two separate contributions: the normal velocity responsible for the longitudinal phonon transport, and the anomalous velocity manifesting itself as the Hall effect of transverse phonon transport. As exemplified in kagome lattices, our theory predicts that the direction of Hall conductivity at low magnetic field can be reversed by tuning temperatures, which we hope can be verified by experiments in the future. Three phonon-Hall-conductivity singularities induced by phonon-band-topology change are discovered as well, which correspond to the degeneracies at three different symmetric center points, \Gamma, K, X, in the wave-vector space of the kagome lattice.

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