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Boulanger ME, Grissonnanche G, Badoux S, Allaire A, Lefrançois É, Legros A, Gourgout A, Dion M, Wang CH, Chen XH, Liang R, Hardy WN, Bonn DA, Taillefer L. Thermal Hall conductivity in the cuprate Mott insulators Nd 2CuO 4 and Sr 2CuO 2Cl 2. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5325. [PMID: 33087726 PMCID: PMC7577976 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18881-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Accepted: 09/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
The heat carriers responsible for the unexpectedly large thermal Hall conductivity of the cuprate Mott insulator La2CuO4 were recently shown to be phonons. However, the mechanism by which phonons in cuprates acquire chirality in a magnetic field is still unknown. Here, we report a similar thermal Hall conductivity in two cuprate Mott insulators with significantly different crystal structures and magnetic orders – Nd2CuO4 and Sr2CuO2Cl2 – and show that two potential mechanisms can be excluded – the scattering of phonons by rare-earth impurities and by structural domains. Our comparative study further reveals that orthorhombicity, apical oxygens, the tilting of oxygen octahedra and the canting of spins out of the CuO2 planes are not essential to the mechanism of chirality. Our findings point to a chiral mechanism coming from a coupling of acoustic phonons to the intrinsic excitations of the CuO2 planes. What makes the phonons in cuprates become chiral, as measured by their thermal Hall effect, is an unresolved question. Here, the authors rule out two extrinsic mechanisms and argue that chirality comes from a coupling of acoustic phonons to the intrinsic excitations of the CuO2 planes.
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- Marie-Eve Boulanger
- Institut Quantique, Département de Physique & RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Institut Quantique, Département de Physique & RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Institut Quantique, Département de Physique & RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Institut Quantique, Département de Physique & RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Institut Quantique, Département de Physique & RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Institut Quantique, Département de Physique & RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada.,SPEC, CEA, CNRS-UMR3680, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
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- Institut Quantique, Département de Physique & RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Institut Quantique, Département de Physique & RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, People's Republic of China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Institut Quantique, Département de Physique & RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada. .,Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON, M5G 1M1, Canada.
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Grissonnanche G, Legros A, Badoux S, Lefrançois E, Zatko V, Lizaire M, Laliberté F, Gourgout A, Zhou JS, Pyon S, Takayama T, Takagi H, Ono S, Doiron-Leyraud N, Taillefer L. Giant thermal Hall conductivity in the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors. Nature 2019; 571:376-380. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1375-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Bastien G, Gourgout A, Aoki D, Pourret A, Sheikin I, Seyfarth G, Flouquet J, Knebel G. Lifshitz Transitions in the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UCoGe. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:206401. [PMID: 27886473 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.206401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We present high field magnetoresistance, Hall effect and thermopower measurements in the Ising-type ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe. A magnetic field is applied along the easy magnetization c axis of the orthorhombic crystal. In the different experimental probes, we observed five successive anomalies at H≈4, 9, 12, 16, and 21 T. Magnetic quantum oscillations were detected both in resistivity and thermoelectric power. At most of the anomalies, significant changes of the oscillation frequencies and the effective masses have been observed, indicating successive Fermi surface instabilities induced by the strong magnetic polarization under a magnetic field.
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- Gaël Bastien
- University Grenoble Alpes, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- IMR, Tohoku University, Oarai, Ibaraki 311-1313, Japan
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- CNRS, Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses LNCMI (UGA, UPS, INSA), UPR 3228, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- CNRS, Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses LNCMI (UGA, UPS, INSA), UPR 3228, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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Gourgout A, Pourret A, Knebel G, Aoki D, Seyfarth G, Flouquet J. Collapse of Ferromagnetism and Fermi Surface Instability near Reentrant Superconductivity of URhGe. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:046401. [PMID: 27494485 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.046401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We present thermoelectric power and resistivity measurements in the ferromagnetic superconductor URhGe for a magnetic field applied along the hard magnetization b axis of the orthorhombic crystal. Reentrant superconductivity is observed near the spin reorientation transition at H_{R}=12.75 T, where a first order transition from the ferromagnetic to the polarized paramagnetic state occurs. Special focus is given to the longitudinal configuration, where both the electric and heat current are parallel to the applied field. The validity of the Fermi-liquid T^{2} dependence of the resistivity through H_{R} demonstrates clearly that no quantum critical point occurs at H_{R}. Thus, the ferromagnetic transition line at H_{R} becomes first order implying the existence of a tricritical point at finite temperature. The enhancement of magnetic fluctuations in the vicinity of the tricritical point stimulates the reentrance of superconductivity. The abrupt sign change observed in the thermoelectric power with the thermal gradient applied along the b axis together with the strong anomalies in the other directions is definitive macroscopic evidence that in addition a significant change of the Fermi surface appears through H_{R}.
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- A Gourgout
- University Grenoble Alpes, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Oarai, Ibaraki 311-1313, Japan
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- University Grenoble Alpes, LNCMI, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
- CNRS, Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses LNCMI (UJF, UPS, INSA), UPR 3228, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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Aoki D, Seyfarth G, Pourret A, Gourgout A, McCollam A, Bruin JAN, Krupko Y, Sheikin I. Field-Induced Lifshitz Transition without Metamagnetism in CeIrIn(5). Phys Rev Lett 2016; 116:037202. [PMID: 26849611 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.037202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We report high magnetic field measurements of magnetic torque, thermoelectric power, magnetization, and the de Haas-van Alphen effect in CeIrIn_{5} across 28 T, where a metamagnetic transition was suggested in previous studies. The thermoelectric power displays two maxima at 28 and 32 T. Above 28 T, a new, low de Haas-van Alphen frequency with a strongly enhanced effective mass emerges, while the highest frequency observed at low field disappears entirely. This suggests a field-induced Lifshitz transition. However, longitudinal magnetization does not show any anomaly up to 33 T, thus ruling out a metamagnetic transition at 28 T.
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- D Aoki
- Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Oarai, Ibaraki 311-1313, Japan
- Université Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SPSMS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-SPSMS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, LNCMI, 38042 Grenoble, France
- Laboratoire National des Champs Magnéetiques Intenses (LNCMI-EMFL), CNRS, UJF, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SPSMS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-SPSMS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INAC-SPSMS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CEA, INAC-SPSMS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML-EMFL), Radboud University, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML-EMFL), Radboud University, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratoire National des Champs Magnéetiques Intenses (LNCMI-EMFL), CNRS, UJF, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire National des Champs Magnéetiques Intenses (LNCMI-EMFL), CNRS, UJF, 38042 Grenoble, France
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