TY - JOUR
T1 - Anomalous Nernst and Righi-Leduc Effects in Mn3Sn
T2 - Berry Curvature and Entropy Flow
AU - Li, Xiaokang
AU - Xu, Liangcai
AU - Ding, Linchao
AU - Wang, Jinhua
AU - Shen, Mingsong
AU - Lu, Xiufang
AU - Zhu, Zengwei
AU - Behnia, Kamran
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Physical Society.
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.056601
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.056601
M3 - Article
C2 - 28949739
AN - SCOPUS:85026844898
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 119
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 5
M1 - 056601
ER -