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Electric-current control of anomalous Hall effect

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-01-08 v1 Materials Science Applied Physics

Abstract

We demonstrate robust and reversible electric-current control of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in a two-dimensional WTe2/Fe3GeTe2 (FGT) stack. Applying a current through Td-WTe2 leads to a giant modulation of the AHE of the adjacent FGT layer, with the relative change of the AHE conductivity exceeding 180%. Control experiments show that i) the observed effect is absent in pure FGT, ii) the modulation weakens in thicker FGT films, confirming its interfacial origin, and iii) the modulation peaks for bilayer WTe2, indicating that the Berry-curvature dipole (BCD) plays the dominant role in the modulation. We propose that the charge current I generates an out-of-plane magnetization Mz via BCD in WTe2 and Mz modifies the exchange splitting of FGT via the inverse magnetic proximity effect, thereby altering its Berry curvature and nontrivially influencing the AHE. The demonstrated method of AHE control offers new possibilities for magnetism control, i.e., for the study of AHE-transistors as well as electric-current control of quantum magnets, especially magnetic insulators.

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@article{arxiv.2601.03744,
  title  = {Electric-current control of anomalous Hall effect},
  author = {Jianping Guo and Gusthavo M. S. Brizolla and Peng Rao and Jian Shao and Thomas N. G. Meier and Tailai Xu and Peirui Ji and Jonathan Finley and Jaroslav Fabian and Johannes Knolle and Christian Back and Lin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03744},
  year   = {2026}
}
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