Magnetic texture-induced thermal Hall effects

作者：van Hoogdalem Kevin A^*; Tserkovnyak Yaroslav; Loss Daniel

来源：Physical Review B, 2013, 87(2): 024402.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevB.87.024402

Magnetic excitations in ferromagnetic systems with a noncollinear ground-state magnetization experience a fictitious magnetic field due to the equilibrium magnetic texture. Here, we investigate how such fictitious fields lead to thermal Hall effects in two-dimensional insulating magnets in which the magnetic texture is caused by spin-orbit interaction. Besides the well-known geometric texture contribution to the fictitious magnetic field in such systems, there exists also an equally important contribution due to the original spin-orbit term in the free energy. We consider the different possible ground states in the phase diagram of a two-dimensional ferromagnet with spin-orbit interaction: the spiral state and the skyrmion lattice, and find that thermal Hall effects can occur in certain domain walls as well as the skyrmion lattice. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.024402

• 出版日期2013-1-2