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Title: Topological Hall effect and emergent skyrmion crystal at manganite-iridate oxide interfaces

Abstract

Scalar spin chirality is expected to induce a finite contribution to the Hall response at low temperatures. We observe this spin-chirality-driven Hall effect, known as the topological Hall effect, at the manganite side of the interface between La1-xSrxMnO3 and SrIrO3. The ferromagnetic double-exchange hopping at the manganite layer, in conjunction with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction which arises at the interface due to broken inversion symmetry and strong spin-orbit coupling from the iridate layer, could produce a skyrmion-crystal (SkX) phase in the presence of an external magnetic field. Using the Monte Carlo technique and a two-orbital spin-fermion model for manganites, supplemented by an in-plane DM interaction, we obtain phase diagrams which reveal at low temperatures a clear SkX phase and also a low-field spin-spiral phase. Increasing temperature, a skyrmion-gas phase, precursor of the SkX phase upon cooling, was identified. The topological Hall effect primarily appears in the SkX phase, as observed before in oxide heterostructures. We determine that the manganite-iridate superlattices give another useful platform to discover a plethora of unconventional magnetic and transport properties.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1560453
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1564572
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 100; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Mohanta, Narayan, Dagotto, Elbio, and Okamoto, Satoshi. Topological Hall effect and emergent skyrmion crystal at manganite-iridate oxide interfaces. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.064429.
Mohanta, Narayan, Dagotto, Elbio, & Okamoto, Satoshi. Topological Hall effect and emergent skyrmion crystal at manganite-iridate oxide interfaces. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.064429
Mohanta, Narayan, Dagotto, Elbio, and Okamoto, Satoshi. Fri . "Topological Hall effect and emergent skyrmion crystal at manganite-iridate oxide interfaces". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.064429. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1560453.
@article{osti_1560453,
title = {Topological Hall effect and emergent skyrmion crystal at manganite-iridate oxide interfaces},
author = {Mohanta, Narayan and Dagotto, Elbio and Okamoto, Satoshi},
abstractNote = {Scalar spin chirality is expected to induce a finite contribution to the Hall response at low temperatures. We observe this spin-chirality-driven Hall effect, known as the topological Hall effect, at the manganite side of the interface between La1-xSrxMnO3 and SrIrO3. The ferromagnetic double-exchange hopping at the manganite layer, in conjunction with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction which arises at the interface due to broken inversion symmetry and strong spin-orbit coupling from the iridate layer, could produce a skyrmion-crystal (SkX) phase in the presence of an external magnetic field. Using the Monte Carlo technique and a two-orbital spin-fermion model for manganites, supplemented by an in-plane DM interaction, we obtain phase diagrams which reveal at low temperatures a clear SkX phase and also a low-field spin-spiral phase. Increasing temperature, a skyrmion-gas phase, precursor of the SkX phase upon cooling, was identified. The topological Hall effect primarily appears in the SkX phase, as observed before in oxide heterostructures. We determine that the manganite-iridate superlattices give another useful platform to discover a plethora of unconventional magnetic and transport properties.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.100.064429},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 6,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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