# Topological thermal Hall effect for topological excitations in spin liquid: Emergent Lorentz force on the spinons

@article{Gao2019TopologicalTH,
title={Topological thermal Hall effect for topological excitations in spin liquid: Emergent Lorentz force on the spinons},
author={Yong Hao Gao and Gang Chen},
journal={SciPost Physics Core},
year={2019}
}
• Published 6 January 2019
• Physics
• SciPost Physics Core
We study the origin of Lorentz force on the spinons in a U(1) spin liquid. We are partly inspired by the previous observation of gauge field correlation in the pairwise spin correlation using the neutron scattering measurement by P.A. Lee an N. Nagaosa [PhysRevB 87,064423(2013)] when the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction intertwines with the lattice geometry. We extend this observation to the Lorentz force that exerts on the (neutral) spinons. The external magnetic field, that polarizes…
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