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Emergent Anomalous Hall Effect in the Eu-Based Compound with a Diamond Network: The Centrosymmetric Cubic Antiferromagnet EuTi$_2$Al$_{20}$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-02-16 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

The centrosymmetric cubic compound EuTi2_2Al20_{20}, in which magnetic Eu ions form a diamond network, undergoes an antiferromagnetic transition at TN_N = 3.3 K and exhibits metamagnetic transitions at Hm1_{m1} = 1.7 T and Hm2_{m2} = 2.8 T for H || [100] at 1.9 K. Between these fields, the magnetization shows a step-like behavior, defining an intermediate field-induced phase (Phase~II). We investigated the electronic transport in Phase~II and found that both the resistivity and Hall resistivity are markedly enhanced, while remaining nearly field independent within the phase. Phase~II appears for all field directions, although its transport response shows moderate directional dependence. These features differ from the strongly orientation-selective behavior often observed in skyrmion-lattice phases of several 4f-electron compounds, suggesting that Phase II may host a field-induced spin texture with a topological character distinct from that of a conventional skyrmion lattice.

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@article{arxiv.2601.01788,
  title  = {Emergent Anomalous Hall Effect in the Eu-Based Compound with a Diamond Network: The Centrosymmetric Cubic Antiferromagnet EuTi$_2$Al$_{20}$},
  author = {Ryuji Higashinaka and Kohsuke Sato and Ryosei Ideura and Masahiro Kawamata and Tatsuma D. Matsuda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01788},
  year   = {2026}
}