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Anomalous and topological Hall effects in epitaxial thin films of the noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn

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Taylor,  James M.       
Nano-Systems from Ions, Spins and Electrons, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Max Planck Society;

Lesne,  Edouard
Nano-Systems from Ions, Spins and Electrons, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Sivakumar,  Pranava Keerthi
Nano-Systems from Ions, Spins and Electrons, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Max Planck Society;
International Max Planck Research School for Science and Technology of Nano-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Max Planck Society;

Werner,  Peter
Nano-Systems from Ions, Spins and Electrons, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Parkin,  Stuart S. P.       
Nano-Systems from Ions, Spins and Electrons, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Taylor, J. M., Markou, A., Lesne, E., Sivakumar, P. K., Luo, C., Radu, F., et al. (2020). Anomalous and topological Hall effects in epitaxial thin films of the noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn. Physical Review B, 101(9): 094404. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.094404.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-DC83-C
Abstract
Noncollinear antiferromagnets with a D019 (spacegroup=194, P63/mmc) hexagonal structure have garnered much attention for their potential applications in topological spintronics. Here, we report the deposition of continuous epitaxial thin films of such a material, Mn3Sn, and characterize their crystal structure using a combination of x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. Growth of Mn3Sn films with both (0001) c-axis orientation and (40¯43) texture is achieved. In the latter case, the thin films exhibit a small uncompensated Mn moment in the basal plane, quantified via magnetometry and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism experiments. This cannot account for the large anomalous Hall effect simultaneously observed in these films, even at room temperature, with magnitude σxy(μ0H=0T)=21Ω-1cm-1 and coercive field μ0Hc=1.3T. We attribute the origin of this anomalous Hall effect to momentum-space Berry curvature arising from the symmetry-breaking inverse triangular spin structure of Mn3Sn. Upon cooling through the transition to a glassy ferromagnetic state at around 50 K, a peak in the Hall resistivity close to the coercive field emerges. This indicates the onset of a topological Hall effect contribution, arising from a nonzero scalar spin chirality that generates a real-space Berry phase. We demonstrate that the polarity of this topological Hall effect, and hence the chiral nature of the noncoplanar magnetic structure driving it, can be controlled using different field-cooling conditions.