Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Exchange biased anomalous Hall effect driven by frustration in a magnetic kagome lattice

  • Ella Lachman,
  • Ryan A. Murphy,
  • Nikola Maksimovic,
  • Robert Kealhofer,
  • Shannon Haley,
  • Ross D. McDonald,
  • Jeffrey R. Long,
  • James G. Analytis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14326-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The Weyl semimetal Co$$_{3}$$ 3 Sn$$_{2}$$ 2 S$$_{2}$$ 2 exhibits a combination of magnetic ordering with a large anomalous Hall effect. Lachman et al. find an intrinsic exchange bias of this anomalous Hall effect and attribute it to the coexistence of ferromagnetism and spin glass behaviour.