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Ryunosuke Terasawa1, Masafumi Udagawa2, Hiroaki Ishizuka1
1Institute of Science Tokyo, Department of Physics, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan.
Abstract:
The nonmonotonic temperature dependence and sign reversal of chirality-related anomalous Hall effect in highly conductive metals are studied. Through the analysis of scattering rate, we find that the nonmonotonicity and sign reversal have two major origins: (1) competition between the contribution from short-range and long-range spin correlations and (2) nonmonotonic spin correlation in the high field. The former mechanism gives rise to nonmonotonic temperature dependence in a wide range of electron density and, in some cases, a sign reversal of Hall resistivity as the temperature decreases. On the other hand, the latter mechanism is responsible for the sign reversal of Hall conductivity in the high field, which sign reversal generally occurs in magnets with antiferromagnetic interactions. The results demonstrate how the Hall effect reflects local spin correlation and provide insights into the mechanism of nonmonotonicity and sign reversal of the anomalous Hall effect by spin chirality.
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