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Nonlinear Topological Magnon Spin Hall Effect

Zhejunyu Jin, Xianglong Yao, Zhenyu Wang, H. Y. Yuan, Zhaozhuo Zeng, Weiwei Wang, Yunshan Cao, and Peng Yan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166704 – Published 16 October 2023
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Abstract

When a magnon passes through two-dimensional magnetic textures, it will experience a fictitious magnetic field originating from the 3×3 skew-symmetric gauge fields. To date, only one of the three independent components of the gauge fields has been found to play a role in generating the fictitious magnetic field, while the other two are perfectly hidden. In this Letter, we show that they are concealed in the nonlinear magnon transport in magnetic textures. Without loss of generality, we theoretically study the nonlinear magnon-skyrmion interaction in antiferromagnets. By analyzing the scattering features of three-magnon processes between the circularly polarized incident magnon and breathing skyrmion, we predict a giant Hall angle of both the confluence and splitting modes. Furthermore, we find that the Hall angle reverses its sign when one switches the handedness of the incident magnons. We dub this the nonlinear topological magnon spin Hall effect. Our findings are deeply rooted in the bosonic nature of magnons that the particle number is not conserved, which has no counterpart in low-energy fermionic systems and may open the door for probing gauge fields by nonlinear means.

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  • Received 9 January 2023
  • Revised 3 April 2023
  • Accepted 15 September 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.166704

© 2023 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Zhejunyu Jin1, Xianglong Yao1, Zhenyu Wang1, H. Y. Yuan2, Zhaozhuo Zeng1, Weiwei Wang3, Yunshan Cao1, and Peng Yan1,*

  • 1School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
  • 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, 3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 3Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China

  • *yan@uestc.edu.cn

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Vol. 131, Iss. 16 — 20 October 2023

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