APL Materials (May 2018)

Carrier density control of magnetism and Berry phases in doped EuTiO3

  • Kaveh Ahadi,
  • Zhigang Gui,
  • Zach Porter,
  • Jeffrey W. Lynn,
  • Zhijun Xu,
  • Stephen D. Wilson,
  • Anderson Janotti,
  • Susanne Stemmer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5025317
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 5
pp. 056105 – 056105-7

Abstract

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In materials with broken time-reversal symmetry, the Berry curvature acts as a reciprocal space magnetic field on the conduction electrons and is a significant contribution to the magnetotransport properties, including the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect. Here, we report neutron diffraction, transport, and magnetization measurements of thin films of doped EuTiO3, an itinerant magnetic material, as a function of carrier density and magnetic field. These films are itinerant antiferromagnets at all doping concentrations. At low carrier densities, the magnetoresistance indicates a metamagnetic transition, which is absent at high carrier densities (>6 × 1020 cm−3). Strikingly, the crossover coincides with a sign change in the spontaneous Hall effects, indicating a sign change in the Berry curvature. We discuss the results in the context of the band structure topology and its coupling to the magnetic texture.