Anomalous Nernst and Righi-Leduc Effects in Mn3Sn: Berry Curvature and Entropy Flow

Xiaokang Li, Liangcai Xu, Linchao Ding, Jinhua Wang, Mingsong Shen, Xiufang Lu, Zengwei Zhu, and Kamran Behnia
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056601 – Published 1 August 2017
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Abstract

We present a study of electric, thermal and thermoelectric response in noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn, which hosts a large anomalous Hall effect (AHE). Berry curvature generates off-diagonal thermal (Righi-Leduc) and thermoelectric (Nernst) signals, which are detectable at room temperature and invertible with a small magnetic field. The thermal and electrical Hall conductivities respect the Wiedemann-Franz law, implying that the transverse currents induced by the Berry curvature are carried by Fermi surface quasiparticles. In contrast to conventional ferromagnets, the anomalous Lorenz number remains close to the Sommerfeld number over the whole temperature range of study, excluding any contribution by inelastic scattering and pointing to the Berry curvature as the unique source of AHE. The anomalous off-diagonal thermo-electric and Hall conductivities are strongly temperature dependent and their ratio is close to kB/e.

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  • Received 19 December 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.056601

© 2017 American Physical Society

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Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

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Xiaokang Li1, Liangcai Xu1, Linchao Ding1, Jinhua Wang1, Mingsong Shen1, Xiufang Lu1, Zengwei Zhu1,*, and Kamran Behnia1,2,†

  • 1Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Laboratoire de Physique Et d’Etude des Matériaux (UPMC-CNRS), ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France

  • *zengwei.zhu@hust.edu.cn
  • kamran.behnia@espci.fr

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Vol. 119, Iss. 5 — 4 August 2017

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