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Published on: January 21, 2016
Giant Topological Hall Effect Across a Broad Temperature Window in Co-Doped Mn3Sn Noncoplanar Antiferromagnets
Mingqian Zhang1, Xinyu Yao1, Fangyi Qi1
1Materials Genome Institute, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Refractories, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
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The interplay between magnetism and topology in a geometrically frustrated noncollinear kagome lattice generate a real-space Berry curvature and produce a topological Hall effect (THE). However, the absence of a room-temperature THE severely hinders its application in spintronics. Here, a intrinsic THE is showed up to ∼1.64 µΩ·cm for x = 0.42 in Mn3- xCoxSn at 2 K with the field applied along H // z, ∼ 9 times of the reported maximum value in other noncoplanar antiferromagnetic materials. Such a THE across a broad wide temperature window up to 300 K, where it reaches a value of 0.45 µΩ·cm, ∼ 5 times of the reported maximum value in other noncoplanar antiferromagnetic materials. We attribute this giant THE to a robust intrinsic scalar spin chirality induced by magnetic Co doping. Our findings establish Co-doped Mn3Sn as a unique platform for tailoring noncoplanar spin textures via doping to yield an unprecedented THE. This thereby enables the application of robust topological spin textures near room temperature, highlighting their significant potential in antiferromagnetic spintronics.
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