Fermi level tuning and atomic ordering induced giant anomalous Nernst effect in Co2MnAl1-xSix Heusler alloy

Abstract

Co2MnAl has been predicted to have Weyl points near Fermi level which is expected to give rise to exotic transverse transport properties such as large anomalous Hall(AHE) and Nernst effects(ANE) due to large Berry curvature. In this study, the effect of Fermi level position and atomic ordering on AHE and ANE in Co2MnAl1-xSix were studied systematically. The Co2MnAl film keeps B2-disordred structure regardless of annealing temperature, which results in much smaller anomalous Hall conductivity sigma_xy and transverse Peltier coefficient sigma_xy than those calculated for L21-ordered Co2MnAl. Our newly performed calculation of sigma_xy with taking B2 disordering into account well reproduces experimental result, thus it was concluded that Berry curvature originating from Weyl points is largely reduced by B2 disordering. It was also revealed Al substitution with Si shifts the position of Fermi level and improves the L21-atomic ordering largely, leading to strong enhancement of sigma_xy, which also agreed with our theoretical calculation. The highest thermopower of ANE of 6.1uV, which is comparable to the recent reports for Co2MnGa, was observed for Co2MnAl0.63Si0.37 because of dominant contribution of sigma_xy. This study clearly shows the importance of both Fermi level tuning and high atomic ordering for obtaining the effect of topological feature in Co-based Heusler alloys on transverse transport properties.

arXiv comment5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1807.02209

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