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Kagome KMnSb metal: Magnetism, lattice dynamics, and anomalous Hall conductivity

arXiv:2310.04339 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.108.245143

Abstract

Kagome metals are reported to exhibit remarkable properties, including superconductivity, charge density wave order, and a large anomalous Hall conductivity, which facilitate the implementation of spintronic devices. In this work, we study a novel kagome metal based on Mn magnetic sites in a KMnSb stoichiometry. By means of first-principles density functional theory calculations, we demonstrate that the studied compound is dynamically stable, locking the ferromagnetic order as the ground state configuration, thus preventing the charge-density-wave state as reported in its vanadium-based counterpart KVSb. Our calculations predict that KMnSb exhibits an out-of-plane (001) ferromagnetic response as the ground state, allowing for the emergence of topologically protected Weyl nodes near the Fermi level and nonzero anomalous Hall conductivity () in this centrosymmetric system. We obtain a tangible Scm component, which is comparable to that of other kagome metals. Finally, we explore the effect of the on-site Coulomb repulsion () on the structural and electronic properties and find that, although the lattice parameters and moderately vary with increasing , KMnSb stands as an ideal stable ferromagnetic kagome metal with a large anomalous Hall conductivity response.

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