Interface-driven unusual anomalous Hall effect in MnxGa/Pt bilayers: No correlation with chiral spin structures
arXiv:1901.05646 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.184410
Abstract
The effects of spin-orbit coupling and symmetry breaking at the interface between a ferromagnet and heavy metal are particularly important for spin-based information storage and computation. Recent discoveries suggest they can create chiral spin structures (e.g. skyrmions), which have often been identified through the appearance of the bump/dip features of Hall signals, the so-called topological Hall effect (THE). In this work, however, we have present an unusual anomalous Hall effect (UAHE) in MnxGa/Pt bilayers and demonstrated that the features extremely similar to THE can be generated without involving any chiral spin structures. The low temperature magnetic force microscopy has been used to explore the magnetic field-dependent behavior of spin structures, and the UAHE as a function of magnetic field does not peak near the maximal density of magnetic bubbles. The results unambiguously evidence that the UAHE in MnxGa/Pt bilayers shows no correlation with chiral spin structures but is driven by the modified interfacial properties. The bump/dip features of Hall signals cannot be taken as an unambiguous signature for the emergence of chiral spin structures, and a wealth of underlying and interesting physics need explored.
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