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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 45: Spin-dependent Transport Phenomena II

MA 45.6: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 19. März 2015, 16:30–16:45, H 0112

Transverse transport and magneto-optical properties of non-collinear antiferromagnets — •Sebastian Wimmer, Ján Minár, Sergiy Mankovsky, Diemo Ködderitzsch, and Hubert Ebert — Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Deutschland

Recently, a number of investigations on the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in materials having nontrivial spin structures, such as non-collinear antiferromagnets, have been performed [1-4]. One especially striking result is the prediction of the AHE for a system with zero net magnetization [3]. We revisit and extend these studies employing a combined group theoretical and first principles approach.

Based exclusively on symmetry considerations the occurence of transverse transport and related optical effects for a given magnetic order of a solid can be predicted. Numerical studies using a first principles electronic structure method in the framework of Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) multiple scattering theory and subsequent calculation of response quantities using a Kubo-type linear response formalism are performed to independently cross-check the group theoretical predictions. Our results in part confirm previous findings and furthermore give first numerical estimates of the magnitude of magneto-optical properties experimentally not observed so far.

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