Spontaneous Anomalous Hall Effect Arising from an Unconventional Compensated Magnetic Phase in a Semiconductor

被引：172

作者：

Betancourt, R. D. Gonzalez ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Zubac, J. ^{[2
,4
]}

Gonzalez-Hernandez, R. ^{[5
]}

Geishendorf, K. ^{[2
]}

Soban, Z. ^{[2
]}

Springholz, G. ^{[6
]}

Olejnik, K. ^{[2
]}

Smejkal, L. ^{[2
,7
]}

Sinova, J. ^{[2
,7
]}

Jungwirth, T. ^{[2
,8
]}

Goennenwein, S. T. B. ^{[1
,9
]}

Thomas, A. ^{[1
,3
]}

Reichlova, H. ^{[1
]}

Zelezny, J. ^{[2
]}

Kriegner, D. ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Tech Univ Dresden, Inst Solid State & Mat Phys, D-01062 Dresden, Germany

[2] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Phys, Cukrovarnicka 10, Prague 6, Czech Republic

[3] Leibniz Inst Solid State & Mat Res IFW Dresden, Helmholtz str 20, D-01069 Dresden, Germany

[4] Charles Univ Prague, Fac Math & Phys, Ke Karlovu 3, Prague 2, Czech Republic

[5] Univ Norte, Dept Fis & Geociencias, Barranquilla 080020, Colombia

[6] Johannes Kepler Univ Linz, Inst Semicond & Solid State Phys, Altenberger str 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria

[7] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55128 Mainz, Germany

[8] Univ Nottingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England

[9] Univ Konstanz, Dept Phys, D-78457 Constance, Germany

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2023年 / 130卷 / 03期

关键词：

ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE; TOTAL-ENERGY;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.036702

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

The anomalous Hall effect, commonly observed in metallic magnets, has been established to originate from the time-reversal symmetry breaking by an internal macroscopic magnetization in ferromagnets or by a noncollinear magnetic order. Here we observe a spontaneous anomalous Hall signal in the absence of an external magnetic field in an epitaxial film of MnTe, which is a semiconductor with a collinear antiparallel magnetic ordering of Mn moments and a vanishing net magnetization. The anomalous Hall effect arises from an unconventional phase with strong time-reversal symmetry breaking and alternating spin polarization in real-space crystal structure and momentum-space electronic structure. The anisotropic crystal environment of magnetic Mn atoms due to the nonmagnetic Te atoms is essential for establishing the unconventional phase and generating the anomalous Hall effect.

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