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TOPOLOGICAL PHONON-MAGNON HYBRID EXCITATIONS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL HONEYCOMB FERROMAGNET

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Huang_cornell_0058O_11250.pdf (1.59 MB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/r0p8-td24
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/110413
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Author
Huang, Han
Abstract

We develop a phonon-magnon interaction model for the two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb ferromagnet and calculate the band structure of the hybrid phonon-magnon excitation. When the phonon (either acoustic or optical) energy overlaps with the magnon energy, the degeneracies at the crossing points are lifted by the phonon-magnon interaction, leading to topological band inversion. We show that the Berry curvatures are nonzero around the phonon-magnon band crossing areas but vanish throughout the rest of the Brillouin zone. We calculate the thermal Hall conductance enabled by the phonon-magnon interaction, which is also an indicator of nontrivial topological properties. Moreover, we show that band topologies can be manipulated by varying spin exchange coupling strengths and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) strengths.

Description
31 pages
Date Issued
2021-08
Keywords
2D magnetic material
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phonon-magnon
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topological properties
Committee Chair
Tian, Zhiting
Committee Member
Benedek, Nicole A.
Degree Discipline
Materials Science and Engineering
Degree Name
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering
Degree Level
Master of Science
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/15160295

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