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Anomalous Nernst and Hall effects in magnetized platinum and palladium
We study the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) and anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in
proximity-induced ferromagnetic palladium and platinum which is widely used in
spintronics, within the Berry phase formalism based on the relativistic band
structure calculations. We find that both the anomalous Hall ()
and Nernst () conductivities can be related to the spin Hall
conductivity () and band exchange-splitting () by
relations and
,
respectively. In particular, these relations would predict that the
in the magnetized Pt (Pd) would be positive (negative) since
the is positive (negative). Furthermore, both
and are approximately proportional to the
induced spin magnetic moment () because the is a linear
function of . Using the reported in the magnetized Pt and Pd, we
predict that the intrinsic anomalous Nernst conductivity (ANC) in the magnetic
platinum and palladium would be gigantic, being up to ten times larger than,
e.g., iron, while the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) would also be
significant.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Physical Review
Competing Orders and Disorder-induced Insulator to Metal Transition in Manganites
Effects of disorder on the two competing phases, i.e., the ferromagnetic
metal and the commensurate charge/lattice ordered insulator, are studied by
Monte Carlo simulation. The disorder suppresses the charge/lattice ordering
more strongly than the ferromagnetic order, driving the commensurate insulator
to the ferromagnetic metal near the phase boundary in the pure case. Above the
ferromagnetic transition temperature, on the contrary, the disorder makes the
system more insulating, which might cause an enhanced colossal
magnetoresistance as observed in the half-doped or Cr-substituted manganites.
No indication of the percolation or the cluster formation is found, and there
remain the charge/lattice fluctuations instead which are enhanced toward the
transition temperature.Comment: 5 pages including 4 figure
Spin Hall Effect of Excitons
Spin Hall effect for excitons in alkali halides and in Cu_2O is investigated
theoretically. In both systems, the spin Hall effect results from the Berry
curvature in k space, which becomes nonzero due to lifting of degeneracies of
the exciton states by exchange coupling. The trajectory of the excitons can be
directly seen as spatial dependence of the circularly polarized light emitted
from the excitons. It enables us to observe the spin Hall effect directly in
the real-space time.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Intrinsic spin Hall effect in platinum metal
Spin Hall effect in metallic Pt is studied with first-principles relativistic
band calculations. It is found that intrinsic spin Hall conductivity (SHC) is
as large as at low temperature, and
decreases down to at room
temperature. It is due to the resonant contribution from the spin-orbit
splitting of the doubly degenerated -bands at high-symmetry and
points near the Fermi level. By modeling these near degeneracies by effective
Hamiltonian, we show that SHC has a peak near the Fermi energy and that the
vertex correction due to impurity scattering vanishes. We therefore argue that
the large spin Hall effect observed experimentally in platinum is of intrinsic
nature.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Mechanisms of enhanced orbital dia- and paramagnetism: Application to the Rashba semiconductor BiTeI
We study the magnetic susceptibility of a layered semiconductor BiTeI with
giant Rashba spin splitting both theoretically and experimentally to explore
its orbital magnetism. Apart from the core contributions, a large
temperature-dependent diamagnetic susceptibility is observed when the Fermi
energy E_F is near the crossing point of the conduction bands, while the
susceptibility turns to be paramagnetic when E_F is away from it. These
features are consistent with first-principles calculations, which also predict
an enhanced orbital magnetic susceptibility with both positive and negative
signs as a function of E_F due to band (anti)crossings. Based on these
observations, we propose two mechanisms for an enhanced paramagnetic orbital
susceptibility.Comment: 4 figures; added reference
Non-magnetic impurities in two- and three- dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnets
In this paper we study in a large-S expansion effects of substituting spins
by non-magnetic impurities in two- and three- dimensional Heisenberg
antiferromagnets in a weak magnetic field. In particular, we demonstrate a
novel mechanism where magnetic moments are induced around non-magnetic
impurities when magnetic field is present. As a result, Curie-type behaviour in
magnetic susceptibility can be observed well below the Neel temperature, in
agreement with what is being observed in and
compounds.Comment: Latex fil
Universal Scaling Behavior of Anomalous Hall Effect and Anomalous Nernst Effect in Itinerant Ferromagnets
Anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) in a variety of
ferromagnetic metals including pure metals, oxides, and chalcogenides, are
studied to obtain unified understandings of their origins. We show a universal
scaling behavior of anomalous Hall conductivity as a function of
longitudinal conductivity over five orders of magnitude, which is
well explained by a recent theory of the AHE taking into account both the
intrinsic and extrinsic contributions. ANE is closely related with AHE and
provides us with further information about the low-temperature electronic state
of itinerant ferromagnets. Temperature dependence of transverse Peltier
coefficient shows an almost similar behavior among various
ferromagnets, and this behavior is in good agreement quantitatively with that
expected from the Mott rule.Comment: 4pages, 4figures, 1tabl
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