{"id":184610,"date":"2024-03-09T02:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/evidence-of-phonon-chirality-from-impurity-scattering-in-the-antiferromagnetic-insulator-strontium-iridium-oxide"},"modified":"2024-03-09T02:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:02:51","slug":"evidence-of-phonon-chirality-from-impurity-scattering-in-the-antiferromagnetic-insulator-strontium-iridium-oxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/evidence-of-phonon-chirality-from-impurity-scattering-in-the-antiferromagnetic-insulator-strontium-iridium-oxide","title":{"rendered":"Evidence of phonon chirality from impurity scattering in the antiferromagnetic insulator strontium iridium oxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evidence-of-phonon-chirality-from-impurity-scattering-in-the-antiferromagnetic-insulator-strontium-iridium-oxide3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The thermal hall effect (THE) is a physical phenomenon characterized by tiny transverse temperature differences occurring in a material when a thermal current passes through it and a perpendicular magnetic field is applied to it. This effect has been observed in a growing number of insulators, yet its underlying physics remains poorly understood.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke in Canada have been trying to identify the mechanism behind this effect in different materials. Their most recent paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-024-02384-5\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, specifically examined this effect in the antiferromagnetic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/insulator\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">insulator<\/a> strontium iridium oxide (Sr<sub>2<\/sub>IrO<sub>4<\/sub>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur current research activity on the THE in insulators started with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.physique.usherbrooke.ca\/taillefer\/Publications\/2019\/s41586-019-1375-0.pdf\">our discovery of a large THE in cuprate superconductors<\/a>,\u201d Louis Taillefer, co-author of the paper, told Phys.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thermal hall effect (THE) is a physical phenomenon characterized by tiny transverse temperature differences occurring in a material when a thermal current passes through it and a perpendicular magnetic field is applied to it. This effect has been observed in a growing number of insulators, yet its underlying physics remains poorly understood. Researchers at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}