Observation of an anomalous Hall effect in single-crystal Mn3Pt

Belén E Zuniga-Cespedes; Kaustuv Manna; Hilary M L Noad; Po-Ya Yang; Michael Nicklas; Claudia Felser; Andrew P Mackenzie; Clifford W Hicks

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/acbc3f

Observation of an anomalous Hall effect in single-crystal Mn₃Pt

Belén E Zuniga-Cespedes
, Kaustuv Manna
, Hilary M L Noad
, Po-Ya Yang
, Michael Nicklas
, Claudia Felser
, Andrew P Mackenzie
, Clifford W Hicks^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The Mn₃X family of compounds was the first in which a large anomalous Hall effect (AHE) was predicted to arise from a purely antiferromagnetic structure, due to the Berry curvature in momentum space. Nearly simultaneously with this prediction, a large AHE was observed experimentally in one of the hexagonal members of this family, Mn₃Sn. Aligning antiferromagnetic domains, a necessary step for observation of the AHE, is more challenging for the cubic members of the Mn₃X family, due to a combination of smaller spontaneous ferromagnetic moments and much stronger magnetic anisotropy. Here, we use a combination of uniaxial stress and applied magnetic field to align domains of bulk single-crystal Mn₃Pt, and demonstrate for the first time a substantial AHE in a bulk sample of a cubic member of the Mn₃X family. The AHE remains locked in with essentially no quantitative variation when the stress is ramped back to zero, which shows that it is not a consequence of any stress-induced ferromagnetic moment.

Original language	English
Article number	023029
Number of pages	9
Journal	New Journal of Physics
Volume	25
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/acbc3f
Publication status	Published - 24 Feb 2023

Keywords

Anomalous Hall effect
Antiferromagnetism
Noncollinear antiferromagnet
Uniaxial pressure
Berry phase
Mn3X

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