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33% Giant Anomalous Hall Current Driven by Both Intrinsic and Extrinsic Contributions in Magnetic Weyl Semimetal Co 3 Sn 2 S 2
Author(s) -
Shen Jianlei,
Zeng Qingqi,
Zhang Shen,
Sun Hongyi,
Yao Qiushi,
Xi Xuekui,
Wang Wenhong,
Wu Guangheng,
Shen Baogen,
Liu Qihang,
Liu Enke
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.202000830
Subject(s) - condensed matter physics , hall effect , spintronics , scattering , weyl semimetal , semimetal , materials science , berry connection and curvature , plateau (mathematics) , physics , dopant , doping , magnetic field , ferromagnetism , geometric phase , quantum mechanics , band gap , mathematical analysis , mathematics
The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) can be induced by intrinsic mechanisms due to the band Berry phase and extrinsic one arising from the impurity scattering. The recently discovered magnetic Weyl semimetal Co 3 Sn 2 S 2 exhibits a large intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) and a giant anomalous Hall angle (AHA). The predicted energy dependence of the AHC in this material exhibits a plateau at 1000 Ω −1 cm −1 and an energy width of 100 meV just below E F , thereby implying that the large intrinsic AHC will not significantly change against small‐scale energy disturbances such as slight p‐ doping. Here, the extrinsic contribution is successfully triggered from alien‐atom scattering in addition to the intrinsic one of the pristine material by introducing a small amount of Fe dopant to substitute Co in Co 3 Sn 2 S 2 . The experimental results show that the AHC and AHA can be prominently enhanced up to 1850 Ω −1 cm −1 and 33%, respectively, owing to the synergistic contributions from the intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms as distinguished by the TYJ model. In particular, the tuned AHA exhibits a record value among known magnetic materials in low fields. This study opens up a pathway to engineer giant AHE in magnetic Weyl semimetals, thereby potentially advancing the topological spintronics/Weyltronics.