Published April 5, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Multiple unconventional Hall effects induced by noncoplanar spin textures in SmMn2Ge2

  • 1. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 2. School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China
  • 3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education) Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China

Description

The search for materials exhibiting multiple topological transport properties such as large anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and robust topological Hall effect (THE) are crucial for novel nanospintronic devices. However, such multiple unconventional Hall responses materials are rare in nature. Here, we report the coexistence of a giant AHE and robust THE in single crystals of SmMn2Ge2 with a noncoplanar spin texture. A giant anomalous Hall conductivity of 1715Ω1cm1 is observed for H//a and I//b whereas a large THE is observed for H//c and I//b. A scaling analysis suggests that the giant AHE in this compound has an overwhelmingly large extrinsic contribution due to the unconventional skew scattering induced by short-range conical spin clusters with scalar spin chirality. The large THE originates from the real-space magnetic skyrmionic bubbles which are observed using the Lorenz transmission electron microscopy. Additionally, a planar topological Hall effect (PTHE) is observed when the magnetic field and the current are coplanar. The PTHE is related to a noncoplanar spin texture with nonzero spin chirality. These observations of multiple topological transport responses contribute to a deeper understanding of the noncoplanar SmMn2Ge2 material and advance their application in spintronic devices.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.109.144406;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100012166; 10.13039/501100001809;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review B
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
14
Journal Page Range
12 pgs.
ISSN
1550-235X

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
2022YFA1402600; 51831003; 52161135108; 12274321
Notes
Contact Email: Corresponding author: xi@iphy.ac.cn; Contact Email: Corresponding author: wenhongwang@tiangong.edu.cn; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
National Key Research and Development Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China; Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility