Three-dimensional nature of anomalous Hall conductivity in YMn6Sn6-xGax, x ~ 0.55

Hari Bhandari; Zhenhua Ning; Po-Hao Chang; Peter E. Siegfried; Resham B. Regmi; Mohamed El. Gazzah; Albert V. Davydov; Allen G. Oliver; Liqin Ke; Igor I. Mazin; Nirmal J. Ghimire

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Three-dimensional nature of anomalous Hall conductivity in YMn6Sn6-xGax, x ~ 0.55

arXiv:2411.12134

Abstract

The unique connectivity of kagome lattices gives rise to topological properties, such as flat bands and Dirac cones. When combined with ferromagnetism and a chemical potential near the 2D Dirac points, this structure offers the potential to realize the highly sought-after topological Chern magnetotransport. Recently, there was considerable excitement surrounding this possibility in the ferrimagnetic kagome metal TbMn $_{6}$ Sn $_{6}$ . However, density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the 2D Chern gap lies well above the Fermi energy, challenging its relevance in the observed anomalous Hall conductivity. Here, we investigate YMn $_{6}$ Sn $_{5.45}$ Ga $_{0.55}$ , a compound with similar crystallographic, magnetic, and electronic properties to TbMn $_{6}$ Sn $_{6}$ . Our findings show that the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity in this material, while comparable in magnitude to that in TbMn $_{6}$ Sn $_{6}$ , is fully three-dimensional, thus providing experimental evidence that Hall conductivity in this class of materials does not originate from 2D Chern gaps. Additionally, we confirm that the newly proposed empirical scaling relation for extrinsic Hall conductivity is universally governed by spin fluctuations.