Observation of an anomalous Hall effect in single-crystal Mn 3 Pt

• Published in: New journal of physics Vol. 25; no. 2; p. 23029
• Main Authors: Zuniga-Cespedes, Belén E, Manna, Kaustuv, Noad, Hilary M L, Yang, Po-Ya, Nicklas, Michael, Felser, Claudia, Mackenzie, Andrew P, Hicks, Clifford W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.02.2023
• ISSN: 1367-2630; 1367-2630
• DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/acbc3f

Abstract The Mn 3 X family of compounds was the first in which a large anomalous Hall effect (AHE) was predicted to arise from a purely antiferromagnetic structure, due to the Berry curvature in momentum space. Nearly simultaneously with this prediction, a large AHE was observed experimentally in one of the hexagonal members of this family, Mn 3 Sn. Aligning antiferromagnetic domains, a necessary step for observation of the AHE, is more challenging for the cubic members of the Mn 3 X family, due to a combination of smaller spontaneous ferromagnetic moments and much stronger magnetic anisotropy. Here, we use a combination of uniaxial stress and applied magnetic field to align domains of bulk single-crystal Mn 3 Pt, and demonstrate for the first time a substantial AHE in a bulk sample of a cubic member of the Mn 3 X family. The AHE remains locked in with essentially no quantitative variation when the stress is ramped back to zero, which shows that it is not a consequence of any stress-induced ferromagnetic moment.