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Junha Kang

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arXiv2026

Microscopic Theory of the Phonon Thermal Hall Effect in Chiral Mott Insulators

The thermal Hall effect (THE) probes charge-neutral excitations in insulators, where the charge gap blocks electronic transport. Recently, phonons have been shown to induce a THE comparable in magnitude to the spin contribution, underscoring their critical role in thermal transport. Here, we develop a microscopic theory of the phonon thermal Hall effect (PTHE) in chiral Mott insulators. First, we derive the exact analytic form of the effective Raman interaction in half-filled Mott insulators, showing that its strength is directly proportional to the scalar spin chirality. Next, we demonstrate the intrinsic PTHE explicitly on the kagome lattice. Crucially, our formulation reveals a temperature-dependent crossover in the transport behavior under isotopic substitution. Using this result, we establish a scaling law that quantitatively separates the phonon contribution to the THE from other background signals. Our results not only provide the first fully microscopic derivation of the PTHE, but also establish a definitive experimental standard for isolating microscopic heat carriers in chiral Mott insulators.

cond-mat.str-el↗

arXiv2025

Dependency Chain Analysis of ROS 2 DDS QoS Policies: From Lifecycle Tutorial to Static Verification

Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) relies on the Data Distribution Service (DDS), which offers more than 20 Quality of Service (QoS) policies governing availability, reliability, and resource usage. Yet ROS 2 users lack clear guidance on safe policy combinations and validation processes prior to deployment, which often leads to trial-and-error tuning and unexpected runtime failures. To address these challenges, we analyze DDS Publisher-Subscriber communication over a life cycle divided into Discovery, Data Exchange, and Disassociation, and provide a user oriented tutorial explaining how 16 QoS policies operate in each phase. Building on this analysis, we derive a QoS dependency chain that formalizes inter-policy relationships and classifies 41 dependency violation rules, capturing constraints that commonly cause communication failures in practice. Finally, we introduce QoS Guard, a ROS 2 package that statically validates DDS XML profiles offline, flags conflicts, and enables safe, predeployment tuning without establishing a live ROS 2 session. Together, these contributions give ROS 2 users both conceptual insight and a concrete tool that enables early detection of misconfigurations, improving the reliability and resource efficiency of ROS 2 based robotic systems.

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arXiv2024

Quantum geometric bound for saturated ferromagnetism

Despite its abundance in nature, predicting the occurrence of ferromagnetism in the ground state is possible only under very limited conditions such as in a flat band system with repulsive interaction or in a band with a single hole under infinitely large Coulomb repulsion, etc. Here, we propose a general condition to achieve saturated ferromagnetism based on the quantum geometry of electronic wave functions in itinerant electron systems. By analyzing the spin excitations of multi-band repulsive Hubbard models with an integer band filling, relevant to either ferromagnetic insulators or semimetals, we show that quantum geometry stabilizes the Goldstone mode in the strongly correlated limit. Our theory indicates the stability of ferromagnetism in a large class of insulators and semimetals other than the previously studied flat band systems and their variants. Moreover, we rigorously prove that saturated ferromagnetism is forbidden in any system with trivial quantum geometry, which includes every half-filled system. We believe that our findings reveal a profound connection between quantum geometry and ferromagnetism, which can be extended to various symmetry-broken ground states in itinerant electronic systems.

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arXiv2024

Nodal fermions in a strongly spin-orbit coupled frustrated pyrochlore superconductor

The pyrochlore lattice, a three-dimensional network of corner-sharing tetrahedra, is a promising material playground for correlated topological phases arising from the interplay between spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and electron-electron interactions. Due to its geometrically frustrated lattice structure, exotic correlated states on the pyrochlore lattice have been extensively studied using various spin Hamiltonians in the localized limit. On the other hand, the topological properties of the electronic structure in the pyrochlore lattice have rarely been explored, due to the scarcity of pyrochlore materials in the itinerant paramagnetic limit. Here, we explore the topological electronic band structure of pyrochlore superconductor RbBi$_{2}$ using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Thanks to the strong SOC of the Bi pyrochlore network, we experimentally confirm the existence of three-dimensional (3D) massless Dirac fermions enforced by nonsymmorphic symmetry, as well as a 3D quadratic band crossing protected by cubic crystalline symmetry. Furthermore, we identify an additional 3D linear Dirac dispersion associated with band inversion protected by threefold rotation symmetry. These observations reveal the rich non-trivial band topology of itinerant pyrochlore lattice systems in the strong SOC regime. Through manipulation of electron correlations and SOC of the frustrated pyrochlore lattices, this material platform is a natural host for exotic phases of matter, including the fractionalized quantum spin Hall effect in the topological Mott insulator phase, as well as axion electrodynamics in the axion insulator phase.

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arXiv2023

Magnetic wallpaper Dirac fermions and topological magnetic Dirac insulators

Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) can host anomalous surface states which inherits the characteristics of crystalline symmetry that protects the bulk topology. Especially, the diversity of magnetic crystalline symmetries indicates the potential for novel magnetic TCIs with distinct surface characteristics. Here, we propose a topological magnetic Dirac insulator (TMDI), whose two-dimensional surface hosts fourfold-degenerate Dirac fermions protected by either the $p'_c4mm$ or $p4'g'm$ magnetic wallpaper group. The bulk topology of TMDIs is protected by diagonal mirror symmetries, which give chiral dispersion of surface Dirac fermions and mirror-protected hinge modes. We propose candidate materials for TMDIs including Nd$_4$Te$_8$Cl$_4$O$_{20}$ and DyB$_4$ based on first-principles calculations, and construct a general scheme for searching TMDIs using the space group of paramagnetic parent states. Our theoretical discovery of TMDIs will facilitate future research on magnetic TCIs and illustrate a distinct way to achieve anomalous surface states in magnetic crystals.

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