Thermal transport properties of Heisenberg antiferromagnet on honeycomb lattice: The effects of anisotropy

Abstract

We study the thermal conductivity of a spin-1/2 two-dimensional anisotropic antiferromagnet on honeycomb lattice in the presence of antiferromagnetic long range ordering. The conductivity has been studied along zigzag direction. Next nearest neighbor exchange coupling has been added to the model Hamiltonian. The possible effects of spin–orbit coupling are investigated by adding Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction to the model Hamiltonian. Such interaction creates anisotropic effects in the model Hamiltonian. The original antiferromagnetic model hamiltonian is mapped to a bosonic model via linear spin wave theory in the context of Holstein Primakoff transformations. The Green’s function approach is applied to obtain the energy spectrum of quasi-particle excitations responsible for thermal transport. We have found the temperature dependence of static thermal conductivity in the magnetic long range ordering phase for various next nearest neighbor coupling constant and anisotropy parameter. Furthermore we have studied the temperature dependence of the static thermal conductivity for various Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction strength and next nearest neighbor coupling constants. Our results show that each curve for temperature dependence of thermal conductivity includes a peak so that the height of peak reduces with magnetic field however the temperature positions of peaks is independent of magnetic field value. Moreover the increase of anisotropic parameter leads to enhance thermal conductivity values. Also the next nearest neighbor coupling constant improves thermal conductivity of localized electrons on honeycomb structure . The exponential behavior for temperature dependence of thermal conductivity at low temperatures is the novel feature in thermal conductivity results. • Study of thermal conductivity of honeycomb lattics. • Study of anisotropic parameter on conductivity. • Study of magnetic field effects on conductivity.