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Main Authors: Lin, Zhi-Xing, Zhang, Shu
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07463
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author Lin, Zhi-Xing
Zhang, Shu
author_facet Lin, Zhi-Xing
Zhang, Shu
contents The stacking of intrinsically magnetic van der Waals materials provides a fertile platform to explore tunable transport effects of magnons, presenting significant prospects for spintronic applications. The possibility of having topologically nontrivial magnons in these systems can further expand the scope of exploration. In this work, we consider a bilayer system with intralayer ferromagnetic exchange and a weak interlayer antiferromagnetic exchange, and study the topological magnon-polaron excitations induced by magnetoelastic couplings. Under an applied magnetic field, the system features a metamagnetic transition, where the magnetic ground state changes from antiparallel layers to parallel. We show that the metamagnetic transition is accompanied by a transition of the topological structure of the magnon polarons, which results in discernible changes in the topology induced transport effects. The magnetic-field dependence of the thermal Hall conductivity and spin Nernst coefficient is analyzed with linear response theories.
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spellingShingle Topological magnon-polaron transport in a bilayer van der Waals magnet
Lin, Zhi-Xing
Zhang, Shu
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Quantum Physics
The stacking of intrinsically magnetic van der Waals materials provides a fertile platform to explore tunable transport effects of magnons, presenting significant prospects for spintronic applications. The possibility of having topologically nontrivial magnons in these systems can further expand the scope of exploration. In this work, we consider a bilayer system with intralayer ferromagnetic exchange and a weak interlayer antiferromagnetic exchange, and study the topological magnon-polaron excitations induced by magnetoelastic couplings. Under an applied magnetic field, the system features a metamagnetic transition, where the magnetic ground state changes from antiparallel layers to parallel. We show that the metamagnetic transition is accompanied by a transition of the topological structure of the magnon polarons, which results in discernible changes in the topology induced transport effects. The magnetic-field dependence of the thermal Hall conductivity and spin Nernst coefficient is analyzed with linear response theories.
title Topological magnon-polaron transport in a bilayer van der Waals magnet
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07463