Published September 17, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Origin of spin reorientation and intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in the kagome ferrimagnet TbMn6Sn6

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA
  • 2. Quantum Science and Engineering Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA
  • 3. Department of Physics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana 500078, India
  • 4. Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
  • 5. Central Department of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu 44613, Nepal
  • 6. Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 20, D01069 Dresden, Germany
  • 7. Centro de Física de Materiales, Universidad del País Vasco, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
  • 8. Ikerbasque Foundation, 48013 Bilbao, Spain
  • 9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
  • 10. Stavropoulos Center for Complex Quantum Matter, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA

Description

TbMn6Sn6 has attracted a lot of recent interest for a variety of reasons, most importantly, because of the hypothesis that it may support quantum-limit Chern topological magnetism, derived from the kagome geometry. Besides, TbMn6Sn6 features a highly unusual magnetic reorientation transition about 100 K below the Curie point, whereby all spins in the system, remaining collinear, rotate by 90. In this work, we address both issues combining experiment, mean-field theory, and first-principle calculations. Both magnetic reorientation and the unusual temperature dependence of the anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) find quantitative explanation in the fact that Mn and Tb, by virtue of the Mermin-Wagner theorem, have very different spin dynamics, with Tb spins experiencing much more rapid fluctuation. We were able to cleanly extract the intrinsic AHC from our experiment, and calculated the same microscopically, with good semiquantitative agreement. We have identified the points in the band structure responsible for the AHC and showed that they are not the kagome-derived Dirac points at the K-corner of the Brillouin zone, as conjectured previously.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.110.115134;
arXiv
arXiv:2203.17246;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/100000015; 10.13039/100000001; 10.13039/100005156; 10.13039/501100001711; 10.13039/501100004543;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review B
Journal Volume
110
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
11 pgs.
ISSN
1550-235X

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
DE-SC0021089; DMR-2343536; DMR-2403804
Notes
These authors contributed equally to this work.; Contact Email: Contact author: nghimire@gmu.edu; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
U.S. Department of Energy; National Science Foundation; Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung; Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung; China Scholarship Council