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Anomalous Nernst and Hall effects in magnetized platinum and palladium

Materials Science 2014-06-10 v1

Abstract

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 (σxyA\sigma_{xy}^A) and Nernst (αxyA\alpha_{xy}^A) conductivities can be related to the spin Hall conductivity (σxyS\sigma_{xy}^S) and band exchange-splitting (Δex\Delta_{ex}) by relations σxyA=ΔexeσxyS(EF)\sigma_{xy}^A =\Delta_{ex}\frac{e}{\hbar}\sigma_{xy}^S(E_F)' and αxyA=π23kB2TΔexσxys(μ)"\alpha_{xy}^A = -\frac{\pi^2}{3}\frac{k_B^2T\Delta_{ex}}{\hbar}\sigma_{xy}^s(\mu)", respectively. In particular, these relations would predict that the σxyA\sigma_{xy}^A in the magnetized Pt (Pd) would be positive (negative) since the σxyS(EF)\sigma_{xy}^S(E_F)' is positive (negative). Furthermore, both σxyA\sigma_{xy}^A and αxyA\alpha_{xy}^A are approximately proportional to the induced spin magnetic moment (msm_s) because the Δex\Delta_{ex} is a linear function of msm_s. Using the reported msm_s 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.

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@article{arxiv.1406.1029,
  title  = {Anomalous Nernst and Hall effects in magnetized platinum and palladium},
  author = {G. Y. Guo and Q. Niu and N. Nagaosa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1029},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Accepted for publication in the Physical Review B