arXiv · 2609.09505
Intrinsic (valley) thermal Hall conductivity of phonons in graphene for integer quantum Hall phases
Abstract
We calculate the intrinsic contribution to the (valley) thermal Hall conductivity of phonons in (Semenoff-gapped) graphene in the quantum Hall regime where bulk electron thermal transport is suppressed. The (valley) thermal Hall transport of phonons considered here originates from a phonon (valley) Hall viscosity induced by electron (valley) Hall conductivity and viscosity via geometric electron-phonon coupling. The so generated phonon (valley) Hall viscosity is identified with the emergent (valley) Hall viscosity recently introduced in \textit{Phys. Lett. A} \textbf{595}, 132096 (2026). While our calculations refer to graphene, they may very well be generalized to other Dirac materials like group-VI transition metal dichalcogenides. We discuss the prospect of measuring the phonon thermal Hall conductivity in graphene-based heterostructures and estimate the corresponding valley response induced by electrons in the inversion symmetry broken phase.
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M. Selch. 2026-09-08. Intrinsic (valley) thermal Hall conductivity of phonons in graphene for integer quantum Hall phases. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09505
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