Sound attenuation in the hyperhoneycomb Kitaev spin liquid

Abstract

In recent years, it has been shown that the phonon dynamics may serve as an indirect probe of fractionalization of spin degrees of freedom. Here we propose that the sound attenuation measurements allows for the characterization and identification of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid on the hyperhoneycomb lattice, which is particularly interesting since the strong Kitaev interaction was observed in the the hyperhoneycomb magnet $\beta$-Li${}_2$IrO${}_3$. To this end we consider the low-temperature scattering between acoustic phonons and gapless Majorana fermions with nodal-line band structure. We find that the sound attenuation has a characteristic angular dependence, which is explicitly shown for the high-symmetry planes at temperatures below the flux gap energy.

16 pages, 7 figures

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• Phonon Dynamics in the Generalized Kitaev Spin Liquid
• Phonon Dynamics in the Chiral Kitaev Spin Liquid
• Signatures of fractionalization in the optical phonons of hyperhoneycomb Kitaev magnet $\beta$-Li${}_2$IrO${}_3$