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Large anomalous Hall conductivity in Weyl ferrimagnet Cs$_{2}$Co$_{3}$S$_4$ predicted by density-functional calculations

Materials Science 2025-05-19 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The identification of topological Weyl semimetals has recently gained considerable attention. Here, we report the results of density-functional theory calculations regarding the magnetic properties, the electronic structure, and the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity of the title compound, which was synthesized already 50 years ago but received little attention, hitherto. We found Cs2_{2}Co3_{3}S4_4 to be a ferrimagnetic half-metal with a total spin magnetic moment of about 3 μB\mu_B per formula unit. It shows energy band gap of 0.36 eV in the majority-spin channel and a pseudo-gap at the Fermi level in the minority-spin channel. We identified several sets of low-energy Weyl points and traced their dependence on the direction of magnetization. The intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity is predicted to reach a magnitude up to 500 Ω1\Omega^{-1}cm1^{-1}, which is comparable to values obtained in other celebrated Weyl semimetals.

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@article{arxiv.2407.08077,
  title  = {Large anomalous Hall conductivity in Weyl ferrimagnet Cs$_{2}$Co$_{3}$S$_4$ predicted by density-functional calculations},
  author = {Gang Bahadur Acharya and Manuel Richter and Klaus Koepernik and Madhav Prasad Ghimire},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.08077},
  year   = {2025}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures