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Giant anomalous Hall effect in quasi-two-dimensional layered antiferromagnet Co_{1/3}NbS_{2}

Authors :
Giulia Tenasini
Edoardo Martino
Nicolas Ubrig
Nirmal J. Ghimire
Helmuth Berger
Oksana Zaharko
Fengcheng Wu
J. F. Mitchell
Ivar Martin
László Forró
Alberto F. Morpurgo
Source :
Physical Review Research, Vol 2, Iss 2, p 023051 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
American Physical Society, 2020.

Abstract

The discovery of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in bulk metallic antiferromagnets (AFMs) motivates the search of the same phenomenon in two-dimensional (2D) systems, where a quantized anomalous Hall conductance can, in principle, be observed. Here we present experiments on microfabricated devices based on Co_{1/3}NbS_{2}, a layered AFM that was recently found to exhibit AHE in bulk crystals below the Néel temperature T_{N}=29 K. Transport measurements reveal a pronounced resistivity anisotropy, indicating that upon lowering temperature the electronic coupling between individual atomic layers is increasingly suppressed. The experiments also show an extremely large anomalous Hall conductivity of approximately 400 S/cm, more than one order of magnitude larger than in the bulk, which demonstrates the importance of studying the AHE in small exfoliated crystals, less affected by crystalline defects. Interestingly, the corresponding anomalous Hall conductance, when normalized to the number of contributing atomic planes, is ∼0.6e^{2}/h per layer, approaching the value expected for the quantized anomalous Hall effect. The observed strong anisotropy of transport and the very large anomalous Hall conductance per layer make the properties of Co_{1/3}NbS_{2} compatible with the presence of partially filled topologically nontrivial 2D bands originating from the magnetic superstructure of the antiferromagnetic state. Isolating atomically thin layers of this material and controlling their charge density may therefore provide a viable route to reveal the occurrence of the quantized AHE in a 2D AFM.

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics
QC1-999

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
26431564
Volume :
2
Issue :
2
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Physical Review Research
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.460509b544da4433a5b3cd3641d03a02
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023051