期刊
PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS
卷 811, 期 -, 页码 1-38出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2019.02.004
关键词
Heat transport; Quantum magnetism; Low-dimensionality; Experiment; Cuprates
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany [HE3439/7, HE3439/8, HE3439/9, HE3439/12, HE3439/13, 247310070, SFB 1143]
- European Commission [FP6-032980, PITN-GA-2009-238475]
Transport properties provide important access to a solid's quasiparticles, such as quasiparticle density, mobility, and scattering. The transport of heat can be particularly revealing because, in principle, all types of excitations in a solid may contribute. Heat transport is well understood for phonons and electrons, but relatively little is known about heat transported by magnetic excitations. However, during the last about two decades, the magnetic heat transport attracted increasing attention after the discovery of large and unusual signatures of it in low-dimensional quantum magnetic cuprate materials. Today it constitutes an important probe to otherwise often elusive, topological quasiparticles in a broader class of quantum magnets. This review summarizes the experimental foundation of this research, i.e. the state of the art for the magnetic heat transport in the mentioned cuprate materials which host prototypical low-dimensional antiferromagnetic S = 1/2 Heisenberg models. These comprise, in particular, the two-dimensional square lattice, and one-dimensional spin chain and two-leg ladder spin models. It is shown, how studying the heat transport provides direct access to the thermal occupation and the scattering of the already quite exotic quasiparticles of these models which range from spin-1 spin wave and triplon excitations to fractionalized spin-1/2 spinons. Remarkable transport properties of these quasiparticles have been revealed: the spin-heat transport often is highly efficient and in some cases even ballistic, in agreement with theoretical predictions. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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