Topological Hall effect induced by chiral fluctuations in ErMn6Sn6
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| author | Fruhling, Kyle Streeter, Alenna Mardanya, Sougata Wang, Xiaoping Baral, Priya Zaharko, Oksana Mazin, Igor I. Chowdhury, Sugata Ratcliff, William D. Tafti, Fazel |
| author_facet | Fruhling, Kyle Streeter, Alenna Mardanya, Sougata Wang, Xiaoping Baral, Priya Zaharko, Oksana Mazin, Igor I. Chowdhury, Sugata Ratcliff, William D. Tafti, Fazel |
| contents | Topological Hall effect (THE) is a hallmark of scalar spin chirality, which is found in static skyrmion lattices. Recent theoretical works have shown that scalar spin chirality could also emerge dynamically from thermal spin fluctuations. Evidence of such a mechanism was found in the kagome magnet YMn6Sn6 where fluctuations arise from frustrated exchange interactions between Mn kagome layers. In YMn6Sn6, the rare-earth ion Y3+ is non-magnetic. When it is replaced by a magnetic ion (Gd3+-Ho3+), the intrinsically antiferromagnetic Mn-Mn interlayer coupling is overwhelmed by the indirect ferromagnetic Mn-R-Mn one, relieving frustration. This generates interesting anomalous Hall conductivity, but not THE. Here we show that Er lies in an intermediate regime where direct and indirect interactions closely compete, so that ErMn6Sn6 can switch from one regime to the other by temperature, i.e., from a collinear ferrimagnetic ground state to a spiral antiferromagnet at 78 K. The AFM phase forms a dome in the temperature-field phase diagram. Close to the boundary of this dome, we find a sizable fluctuations-driven THE, thus underscoring the universality of this chiral fluctuation mechanism for generating non-zero scalar spin chirality. |
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| spellingShingle | Topological Hall effect induced by chiral fluctuations in ErMn6Sn6 Fruhling, Kyle Streeter, Alenna Mardanya, Sougata Wang, Xiaoping Baral, Priya Zaharko, Oksana Mazin, Igor I. Chowdhury, Sugata Ratcliff, William D. Tafti, Fazel Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Topological Hall effect (THE) is a hallmark of scalar spin chirality, which is found in static skyrmion lattices. Recent theoretical works have shown that scalar spin chirality could also emerge dynamically from thermal spin fluctuations. Evidence of such a mechanism was found in the kagome magnet YMn6Sn6 where fluctuations arise from frustrated exchange interactions between Mn kagome layers. In YMn6Sn6, the rare-earth ion Y3+ is non-magnetic. When it is replaced by a magnetic ion (Gd3+-Ho3+), the intrinsically antiferromagnetic Mn-Mn interlayer coupling is overwhelmed by the indirect ferromagnetic Mn-R-Mn one, relieving frustration. This generates interesting anomalous Hall conductivity, but not THE. Here we show that Er lies in an intermediate regime where direct and indirect interactions closely compete, so that ErMn6Sn6 can switch from one regime to the other by temperature, i.e., from a collinear ferrimagnetic ground state to a spiral antiferromagnet at 78 K. The AFM phase forms a dome in the temperature-field phase diagram. Close to the boundary of this dome, we find a sizable fluctuations-driven THE, thus underscoring the universality of this chiral fluctuation mechanism for generating non-zero scalar spin chirality. |
| title | Topological Hall effect induced by chiral fluctuations in ErMn6Sn6 |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17449 |