Anti-site disorder and Berry curvature driven anomalous Hall effect in spin gapless semiconducting Mn2CoAl Heusler compound
arXiv:2210.07668 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.106.245137
Abstract
Spin gapless semiconductors exhibit a finite band gap for one spin channel and closed gap for other spin channel, emerged as a new state of magnetic materials with a great potential for spintronic applications. The first experimental evidence for the spin gapless semiconducting behavior was observed in an inverse Heusler compound Mn2CoAl. Here, we report a detailed investigation of the crystal structure and anomalous Hall effect in the Mn2CoAl using experimental and theoretical studies. The analysis of the high-resolution synchrotron x-ray diffraction data shows anti-site disorder between Mn and Al atoms within the inverse Heusler structure. The temperature-dependent resistivity shows semiconducting behavior and follows Mooijs criteria for disordered metal. Scaling behavior of the anomalous Hall resistivity suggests that the anomalous Hall effect in the Mn2CoAl is primarily governed by intrinsic mechanism due to the Berry curvature in momentum space. The experimental intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) is found to be 35 S/cm, which is considerably larger than the theoretically predicted value for ordered Mn2CoAl. Our first-principle calculations conclude that the anti-site disorder between Mn and Al atoms enhances the Berry curvature and hence the value of intrinsic AHC, which is in a very well agreement with the experiment.
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