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Giant Anomalous Hall and Nernst Effects in a Heavy Fermion Ferromagnet

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2024-02-01 v1

Abstract

The anomalous Hall and Nernst effects describe the voltage drop perpendicular to an applied current and temperature gradient due to the magnetization of a magnetic material. These effects can be utilized to measure the Berry curvature at the Fermi energy, and have potential applications in future electronic devices and thermoelectric energy conversion. In this paper, we report giant anomalous Hall conductivity and anomalous Nernst coefficient, as high as about 1000 Ω1\Omega^{-1} cm1^{-1} and 10 μ\muV K1^{-1}, respectively, in a heavy fermion ferromagnet, CeCrGe3_3. This compound uniquely manifests strong hybridization between the 4ff and conduction electrons, leading to a Kondo lattice state in the presence of ferromagnetic order. Unlike conventional topological semimetals in which the electron correlation is weak, CeCrGe3_3 manifests a strong Berry curvature field of the heavy fermion with an extremely low Fermi energy. Our findings pave the way for exploring correlation-driven topological responses in a ferromagnetic Kondo lattice environment.

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@article{arxiv.2401.17624,
  title  = {Giant Anomalous Hall and Nernst Effects in a Heavy Fermion Ferromagnet},
  author = {Longfei Li and Shuyue Guan and Shengwei Chi and Jiawei Li and Xinxuan Lin and Gang Xu and Shuang Jia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.17624},
  year   = {2024}
}

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22 pages, 5 figures