Large negative thermal Hall response in the pseudogap phase of cuprates

Datum

20.12.2018

Zeit

11:00 - 12:30

Sprecher

Gaël Grissonnanche

Zugehörigkeit

Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

Sprache

en

Hauptthema

Materialien

Andere Themen

Materialien

Host

Prof. E. Hassinger

Beschreibung

The nature of the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors remains a mystery. In that phase, the Fermi surface is transformed even though translational symmetry is not broken [1]. A possible explanation is a spin-liquid-like state with topological order [2]. The thermal Hall conductivity κxy has recently emerged as a powerful probe of insulators with unusual forms of magnetism, such as quantum spin liquids [3] and quantum spin ice [4]. We report extensive measurements of the thermal Hall conductivity κxy in several families of cuprates across a wide range of dopings. We observe a large and negative thermal Hall response at temperatures below the pseudogap temperature T*, which appears immediately below the pseudogap critical doping p*. The negative κxy contrasts with the positive electrical Hall conductivity σxy and, moreover, the magnitude of κxy increases as doping is reduced towards p = 0, whereas σxy vanishes as the material becomes an insulator. The negative κxy is therefore due to neutral heat carriers and it points to spin chirality [5], or perhaps topological excitations. [1] Proust & Taillefer, Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. (in press); arXiv:1804.08502 (2018). [2] Scheurer et al., PNAS 115, E3665 (2018). [3] Kasahara et al., Nature 559, 227 (2018). [4] Hirschberger et al., Science 348, 6230 (2015). [5] Lee et al., PRB 91, 125413 (2015).

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