Enhanced Thermal Hall Effect in the Square-Lattice Néel State
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Scheurer, Mathias, Mathias Scheurer, Shubhayu Chatterjee, Haoyu Guo, Cenke Xu, and Subir Sachdev. 2019. Enhanced Thermal Hall Effect in the Square-lattice Néel State. Nature Physics.Abstract
Recent experiments on several cuprate compounds have identified an enhanced thermal Hall response in the pseudogap phase. Most strikingly, this enhancement persists even in the undoped system, which challenges our understanding of the insulating parent compounds. To explain these surprising observations, we study the quantum phase transition of a square-lattice antiferromagnet from a confining Neel state to a state with coexisting Neel and semion topological order. The transition is driven by an applied magnetic field and involves no change in the symmetry of the state. The critical point is described by a strongly-coupled conformal field theory with an emergent global SO(3) symmetry. The field theory has four different formulations in terms of SU(2) or U(1) gauge theories, which are all related by dualities; we relate all four theories to the lattice degrees of freedom. We show how proximity of the confining Neel state to the critical point can explain the enhanced thermal Hall effect seen in experiment.Other Sources
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