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Title: Planar Hall Effect in Antiferromagnetic MnTe Thin Films

Abstract

We show that the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in α-MnTe impacts the transport behavior by generating an anisotropic valence-band splitting, resulting in four spin-polarized pockets near Γ. A minimal k·p model is constructed to capture this splitting by group theory analysis, a tight-binding model, and ab initio calculations. The model is shown to describe the rotation symmetry of the zero-field planer Hall effect (PHE). The PHE originates from the band anisotropy given by SOC, and is quantitatively estimated to be 25%–31% for an ideal thin film with a single antiferromagnetic domain.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [2];  [5]
  1. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  2. Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States). Dept. of Physics and Materials Science Program
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States). Lab. for Terascale and Terahertz Electronics (LATTE), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  4. Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States). Lab. for Terascale and Terahertz Electronics (LATTE), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  5. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems (SHINES); Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States); Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1566696
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1546186
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012670; SC0016424
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; phonons; thermal conductivity; thermoelectric; spin dynamics; spintronics

Citation Formats

Yin, Gen, Yu, Jie-Xiang, Liu, Yizhou, Lake, Roger K., Zang, Jiadong, and Wang, Kang L. Planar Hall Effect in Antiferromagnetic MnTe Thin Films. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.122.106602.
Yin, Gen, Yu, Jie-Xiang, Liu, Yizhou, Lake, Roger K., Zang, Jiadong, & Wang, Kang L. Planar Hall Effect in Antiferromagnetic MnTe Thin Films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.106602
Yin, Gen, Yu, Jie-Xiang, Liu, Yizhou, Lake, Roger K., Zang, Jiadong, and Wang, Kang L. Wed . "Planar Hall Effect in Antiferromagnetic MnTe Thin Films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.106602. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1566696.
@article{osti_1566696,
title = {Planar Hall Effect in Antiferromagnetic MnTe Thin Films},
author = {Yin, Gen and Yu, Jie-Xiang and Liu, Yizhou and Lake, Roger K. and Zang, Jiadong and Wang, Kang L.},
abstractNote = {We show that the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in α-MnTe impacts the transport behavior by generating an anisotropic valence-band splitting, resulting in four spin-polarized pockets near Γ. A minimal k·p model is constructed to capture this splitting by group theory analysis, a tight-binding model, and ab initio calculations. The model is shown to describe the rotation symmetry of the zero-field planer Hall effect (PHE). The PHE originates from the band anisotropy given by SOC, and is quantitatively estimated to be 25%–31% for an ideal thin film with a single antiferromagnetic domain.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.122.106602},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 10,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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