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Large Anomalous Hall Effect in Topologically Trivial Double-$Q$ Magnets

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-12-12 v1

Abstract

Multi-QQ magnets consist of superposed spin density waves with distinct magnetic modulation vectors, enabling a wide range of magnetic orders depending on their combination. Among them, topologically nontrivial spin textures, such as a magnetic skyrmion, has been extensively studied owing to the emergence of topological Hall effects induced by real-space scalar spin chirality. Contrary to this expectation, we theoretically investigate another route to enhancing the Hall response under a topologically \textit{trivial} double-QQ spin textures. Despite the cancellation of the scalar spin chirality, the double-QQ magnetism exhibits a pronounced Hall response with a nonmonotonic dependence on the uniform magnetization, which is in stark contrast to a ferromagnetic state and a single-QQ spiral state. Analyzing the multi-orbital Kondo lattice model, we show that orbital hybridization induced by the double-QQ superstructure enhances the Berry curvature in k\mathbf{k}-space, leading to a large anomalous Hall effect. This mechanism accounts for the observed giant anomalous Hall effect in GdRu2_2Si2_2 and GdRu2_2Ge2_2, thereby highlighting topologically trivial double-QQ spin textures as promising spintronic materials.

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@article{arxiv.2512.10168,
  title  = {Large Anomalous Hall Effect in Topologically Trivial Double-$Q$ Magnets},
  author = {Satoru Ohgata and Satoru Hayami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.10168},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Main text: 5 pages, 3 figures. Supplementary material: 7 pages, 7 figures