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Condensed Matter > Strongly Correlated Electrons

Title: Topological magnons in a non-coplanar magnetic order on the triangular lattice

Abstract: The bond-dependent Kitaev interaction $K$ is familiar in the effective spin model of transition metal compounds with octahedral ligands. In this work, we find a peculiar non-coplanar magnetic order can be formed with the help of $K$ and next-nearest neighbor Heisenberg coupling $J_2$ on the triangular lattice. It can be seen as a miniature version of skyrmion crystal, since it has nine spins and an integer topological number in a magnetic unit cell. The magnon excitations in such an order are studied by the linear spin-wave theory. Of note is that the change in the relative size of $J_2$ and $K$ produces topological magnon phase transitions although the topological number remains unchanged. We also calculated the experimentally observable thermal Hall conductivity, and found that the signs of thermal Hall conductivity will change with topological phase transitions or temperature changes in certain regions.
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
Cite as: arXiv:2401.12505 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2401.12505v3 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

Submission history

From: Ken Chen [view email]
[v1] Tue, 23 Jan 2024 05:56:22 GMT (2590kb,D)
[v2] Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:21:24 GMT (2590kb,D)
[v3] Sat, 27 Apr 2024 06:29:49 GMT (2485kb,D)

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