Spontaneous Hall Effect in the Spin Liquid Phase of Pr2Ir2O7
An electric current flowing through a conductor in a magnetic field produces a transverse voltage drop known as the Hall effect. In the absence of the field, this effect also appears in ferromagnets in a plane normal to its spontaneous magnetization vector owing to the spin-orbit coupling. Generally...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of physics. Conference series 2011-09, Vol.320 (1), p.012056 |
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Zusammenfassung: | An electric current flowing through a conductor in a magnetic field produces a transverse voltage drop known as the Hall effect. In the absence of the field, this effect also appears in ferromagnets in a plane normal to its spontaneous magnetization vector owing to the spin-orbit coupling. Generally, it may also detect a nontrivial order parameter breaking the time-reversal symmetry on a macroscopic scale, for example, scalar spin chirality. Here, we present our recent results in the study of the frustrated magnetism and Hall transport of the metallic magnet Pr2Ir2O7. Strikingly, a spontaneous Hall effect is observed in the absence of both an external magnetic field and conventional magnetic long-range order. This strongly suggests the existence of a chiral spin liquid, a spin-liquid phase breaking the time-reversal symmetry. Both our measurements indicate that spin-ice correlations in the liquid phase lead to a non-coplanar spin texture forming a uniform but hidden order parameter: the spin chirality. |
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ISSN: | 1742-6596 1742-6588 1742-6596 |
DOI: | 10.1088/1742-6596/320/1/012056 |