Evidence of chiral fermion edge modes through geometric engineering of thermal Hall in alpha-RuCl 3

arXiv:2505.05417 · cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.mtrl-sci · Submitted 2025-05-08 · Read on arXiv

cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Submitted: 2025-05-08

Updated: 2025-05-08

Terminology

• Anyons — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 5× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• alpha — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Supplemental Material — 2× in this paper
• Hysteresis — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Spin-Phonon Coupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Anyons in an exactly solved model and beyond
• Magnons, Phonons, and Thermal Hall Effect in Candidate Kitaev Magnet $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$
• Theory of Intrinsic Phonon Thermal Hall Effect in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$
• Geometry dependence of the thermal Hall effect in chiral spin liquids

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