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Anomalous Hall effect in epitaxial thin films of the hexagonal Heusler MnPtGa noncollinear hard magnet

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Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 9 (36): 2201562 (Nov 9, 2022)
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202201562

Abstract

Materials hosting noncollinear magnetic ordering and sizeable spin-orbit cou-pling can manifest perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and a Berry curvature-driven intrinsic anomalous Hall effect. In this work, the structural, magnetic, and magnetotransport properties of crystalline hexagonal Heusler MnPtGa epitaxial thin films are reported. The centrosymmetric MnPtGa films (P63/mmcspace group) crystallize with a preferred c-axis (0001) crystal orientation. Along this crystallographic direction, the MnPtGa films exhibit preferential perpendic-ular magnetic anisotropy, below the Curie temperature TC= 263 K, with a large effective uniaxial magnetic anisotropy Keff= 0.735 MJ m−3, at 150 K. In addition, the MnPtGa system undergoes a thermally induced spin reorientation transition below Tsr= 160 K, which marks the onset of a noncollinear spin-canted state. The anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) of MnPtGa films exhibits a nonmono-tonic behavior as a function of temperature, which changes sign at T*= 110 K. Concurrently with the reported unusual dependence of the AHC on the longitu-dinal conductivity in MnPtGa crystalline thin films, these findings strongly sug-gest an anomalous Hall effect of intrinsic origin, driven by a momentum-space Berry curvature mechanism, as supported by first-principle calculations

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