Gate-tunable ferromagnetism in a van der Waals magnetic semimetal

Abstract

Magnetic semimetals form an attractive class of materials because of the non-trivial contributions of itinerant electrons to magnetism. Due to their relatively low-carrier-density nature, a doping level of those materials could be largely tuned by a gating technique. Here we demonstrate gate-tunable ferromagnetism in an emergent van der Waals magnetic semimetal Cr3Te4 based on an ion-gating technique. Upon doping electrons into the system, the Curie temperature (TC) sharply increases, approaching near to room temperature, then decreases to some extent. Interestingly, this non-monotonous variation of TC accompanies the switching of the magnetic anisotropy. Furthermore, such evolutions of TC and anisotropy occur synchronously with the sigh changes of the ordinary and anomalous Hall effects. Those results clearly elucidate that the magnetism in Cr3Te4 should be governed by its semimetallic band nature, where the band crossing points play a crucial role both for the magneto-transport properties and magnetism itself.

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