APS Logo

Searching for quantum oscillations in the thermal transport properties

ORAL

Abstract

The observations of the Righi-Leduc (thermal Hall) effect without the Lorentz force leads to the debate on the origins of fermions versus bosons. The recent report of quantum oscillations in Kitaev spin liquid points to a possible resolution. Quantum oscillations due to the Landau quantization of electrons in a magnetic field would most likely capture only the fermionic thermal transport effect. Thus, searching for the oscillatory thermal Hall effect provides a crucial potential path to separate the fermionic and bosonic contributions. We report the observation of quantum oscillations in the longitudinal and transverse magnetothermal effect of a correlated Kagome superconductor. The temperature variance of the oscillatory components indicates that the Fermi Liquid theory can describe the pattern of these oscillations. The results present the oscillatory thermal Hall effect as a powerful probe to the correlated quantum materials.

Presenters

  • Dechen Zhang

    University of Michigan

Authors

  • Dechen Zhang

    University of Michigan

  • Kuan-Wen Chen

    University of Michigan

  • Guoxin Zheng

    University of Michigan

  • Ziji Xiang

    University of Science and Technology of China, University of Michigan

  • Fanghang Yu

    University of Science and Technology of China

  • Jianjun Ying

    University of Science and Technology of China

  • Xianhui Chen

    Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China, University of Science and Technology of China

  • Lu Li

    University of Michigan