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Nonlinear Anomalous Hall Effect for NĂ©el Vector Detection
- Source :
- Physical Review Letters. 124
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2020.
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Abstract
- Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics exploits the N\'eel vector as a state variable for novel spintronic devices. Recent studies have shown that the field-like and antidamping spin-orbit torques (SOT) can be used to switch the N\'eel vector in antiferromagnets with proper symmetries. However, the precise detection of the N\'eel vector remains a challenging problem. In this letter, we predict that the nonlinear anomalous Hall effect (AHE) can be used to detect the N\'eel vector in most compensated antiferromagnets supporting the antidamping SOT. We show that the magnetic crystal group symmetry of these antiferromagnets combined with spin-orbit coupling produce a sizable Berry curvature dipole and hence the nonlinear AHE. As a specific example, we consider half-Heusler alloy CuMnSb, which N\'eel vector can be switched by the antidamping SOT. Based on density functional theory calculations, we show that the nonlinear AHE in CuMnSb results in a measurable Hall voltage under conventional experimental conditions. The strong dependence of the Berry curvature dipole on the N\'eel vector orientation provides a new detection scheme of the N\'eel vector based on the nonlinear AHE. Our predictions enrich the material platform for studying non-trivial phenomena associated with the Berry curvature and broaden the range of materials useful for AFM spintronics.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Coupling
Condensed Matter - Materials Science
State variable
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Spintronics
Condensed matter physics
General Physics and Astronomy
01 natural sciences
Condensed Matter::Materials Science
Dipole
Nonlinear system
Hall effect
0103 physical sciences
Antiferromagnetism
Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons
Berry connection and curvature
010306 general physics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10797114 and 00319007
- Volume :
- 124
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7d3b8d95109cae72345c3fe3c02b32c3