标题:Resonant thermal Hall effect of phonons coupled to dynamical defects
演讲人: Haoyu Guo Harvard University
时间: 2022-08-16 15:00-2022-08-16 16:00
地点:Conference Hall 104, Science Building, Tsinghua University

内容:

Recent thermal transport measurements in various materialsincluding pseudogap cuprates have observed large thermal Hall effects which are attributed to phonons. In this talk, I will review some recent experiments and propose a theory of phonon thermal Hall effect based on resonant scattering of phonons off dynamical defects. Using a microscopic formulation based on the Kubo formula, we find that the leading contribution perturbative in the phonon-defect coupling is proportional to the phonon lifetime. This contribution is at resonance when the phonon energy equals a defect level spacing. Our results are obtained for different defect models, and include a model of an impurity quantum spin in the presence of quasi-static magnetic order with an isotropic Zeeman coupling to the applied field, which we propose applies to the cuprate pseudogap regime.