Helical magnetic structure and the anomalous and topological Hall effects in epitaxial B20 Fe${}_{1-y}$Co${}_y$Ge films

Abstract

Epitaxial films of the B20-structure alloy Fe${}_{1-y}$Co${}_y$Ge were grown by molecular beam epitaxy on Si (111) substrates. The magnetization varied smoothly from the bulk-like values of one Bohr magneton per Fe atom for FeGe to zero for non-magnetic CoGe. The chiral lattice structure leads to a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), and the films' helical magnetic ground state was confirmed using polarized neutron reflectometry measurements. The pitch of the spin helix, measured by this method, varies with Co content $y$ and diverges at $y\sim 0.45$. This indicates a zero-crossing of the DMI, which we reproduced in calculations using first principle methods. We also measured the longitudinal and Hall resistivity of our films as a function of magnetic field, temperature, and Co content $y$. The Hall resistivity is expected to contain contributions from the ordinary, anomalous, and topological Hall effects. Both the anomalous and topological Hall resistivities show peaks around $y\sim 0.5$. Our first principles calculations show a peak in the topological Hall constant at this value of $y$, related to the strong spin-polarisation predicted for intermediate values of $y$. Half-metallicity is predicted for $y=0.6$, consistent with the experimentally observed linear magnetoresistance at this composition. Whilst it is possible to reconcile theory with experiment for the various Hall effects for FeGe, the large topological Hall resistivities for $y\sim 0.5$ are much larger then expected when the very small emergent fields associated with the divergence in the DMI are taken into account.

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