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Jikun Zhou

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Windmill Spin Dynamics and Its Induced Anomalous Hall Effect in Noncollinear Antiferromagnet Mn3Sn

We demonstrate that the spin dynamics of the noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn hosts a soft eigenmode that transitions from small-angle oscillation to a large-angle, chiral windmill precession once the canting angle exceeds a threshold set by the bending of the spin order. This windmill precession has a fixed chirality of motion, which couples to conduction electrons via a Berry connection polarizability in the mixed space of momentum and spin order, generating a nonzero Berry curvature. This Berry curvature produces a time-independent, DC anomalous Hall effect that persists throughout windmill precession, in sharp contrast to the vanishing Hall response of the static equilibrium spin order when the Hall plane coincides with the Kagome plane. Our results establish a direct link between spin group symmetry, nonlinear spin dynamics, and quantum geometric transport in noncollinear antiferromagnets.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Magnon Thermal Hall Effect Induced By Symmetric Exchange Interaction

By analyzing the spin-group symmetry of magnons, we establish two generalized Onsager's relations in the magnon thermal Hall effect, which reveals the rich and complicated structures of the magnon Berry curvature in the parameter space of different types of the exchange coupling. As an important consequence, we find that the diagonal and off-diagonal part of the symmetric anisotropic exchange coupling together can support the planar magnon thermal Hall effect without the DM interaction. This removes the local inversion-symmetry-breaking condition for generating the magnon thermal Hall effect. Moreover, we predict an exotic phenomenon that the thermal conductivity exhibits angular dependence with respect to the in-plane magnetization. Our work lays the ground for decoding the coupling between magnon transport and different types of exchange interactions.

cond-mat.mes-hall