TY - JOUR
T1 - Crystal Thermal Transport in Altermagnetic RuO2
AU - Zhou, Xiaodong
AU - Feng, Wanxiang
AU - Zhang, Run Wu
AU - Šmejkal, Libor
AU - Sinova, Jairo
AU - Mokrousov, Yuriy
AU - Yao, Yugui
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 American Physical Society.
PY - 2024/2/2
Y1 - 2024/2/2
N2 - We demonstrate the emergence of a pronounced thermal transport in the recently discovered class of magnetic materials - altermagnets. From symmetry arguments and first-principles calculations performed for the showcase altermagnet, RuO2, we uncover that crystal Nernst and crystal thermal Hall effects in this material are very large and strongly anisotropic with respect to the Néel vector. We find the large crystal thermal transport to originate from three sources of Berry's curvature in momentum space: the Weyl fermions due to crossings between well-separated bands, the strong spin-flip pseudonodal surfaces, and the weak spin-flip ladder transitions, defined by transitions among very weakly spin-split states of similar dispersion crossing the Fermi surface. Moreover, we reveal that the anomalous thermal and electrical transport coefficients in RuO2 are linked by an extended Wiedemann-Franz law in a temperature range much wider than expected for conventional magnets. Our results suggest that altermagnets may assume a leading role in realizing concepts in spin caloritronics not achievable with ferromagnets or antiferromagnets.
AB - We demonstrate the emergence of a pronounced thermal transport in the recently discovered class of magnetic materials - altermagnets. From symmetry arguments and first-principles calculations performed for the showcase altermagnet, RuO2, we uncover that crystal Nernst and crystal thermal Hall effects in this material are very large and strongly anisotropic with respect to the Néel vector. We find the large crystal thermal transport to originate from three sources of Berry's curvature in momentum space: the Weyl fermions due to crossings between well-separated bands, the strong spin-flip pseudonodal surfaces, and the weak spin-flip ladder transitions, defined by transitions among very weakly spin-split states of similar dispersion crossing the Fermi surface. Moreover, we reveal that the anomalous thermal and electrical transport coefficients in RuO2 are linked by an extended Wiedemann-Franz law in a temperature range much wider than expected for conventional magnets. Our results suggest that altermagnets may assume a leading role in realizing concepts in spin caloritronics not achievable with ferromagnets or antiferromagnets.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.056701
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.056701
M3 - Article
C2 - 38364129
AN - SCOPUS:85183954779
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 132
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 5
M1 - 056701
ER -