Berry Phase Engineering in SrRuO3/SrIrO3/SrTiO3 Superlattices Induced by Band Structure Reconstruction
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Zheng, DongxingFang, Yue-Wen

Zhang, Senfu

Li, Peng

Wen, Yan

Fang, Bin
He, Xin

Li, Yan
Zhang, Chenhui

Tong, Wenyi
Mi, Wenbo

Bai, Haili

Alshareef, Husam N.

Qiu, Z. Q.

Zhang, Xixiang

KAUST Department
Functional Nanomaterials and Devices Research GroupMaterial Science and Engineering
Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
KAUST Grant Number
CRF-2015-SENSORS-2708OSR-2017-CRG6-3427
OSR2019-CRG8-4801
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2021-02-19Online Publication Date
2021-02-19Print Publication Date
2021-03-23Embargo End Date
2022-02-19Submitted Date
2020-12-06Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/667517
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The Berry phase, which reveals the intimate geometrical structure underlying quantum mechanics, plays a central role in the anomalous Hall effect. In this work, we observed a sign change of Berry curvatures at the interface between the ferromagnet SrRuO3 (SRO) layer and the SrIrO3 (SIO) layer with strong spin-orbit coupling. The negative Berry curvature at the interface, induced by the strongly spin-orbit-coupled Ir 5d bands near the Fermi level, makes the SRO/SIO interface different from the SRO layer that has a positive Berry curvature. These opposite Berry curvatures led to two anomalous Hall effect (AHE) channels with opposite signs at the SRO/SIO interface and in the SRO layer, respectively, resulting in a hump-like feature in the Hall resistivity loop. This observation offers a straightforward explanation of the hump-like feature that is usually associated with the chiral magnetic structure or magnetic skyrmions. Hence, this study provides evidence to oppose the widely accepted claim that magnetic skyrmions induce the hump-like feature.Citation
Zheng, D., Fang, Y.-W., Zhang, S., Li, P., Wen, Y., Fang, B., … Zhang, X. (2021). Berry Phase Engineering in SrRuO3/SrIrO3/SrTiO3 Superlattices Induced by Band Structure Reconstruction. ACS Nano. doi:10.1021/acsnano.0c10200Sponsors
This publication is based on research supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Office of Sponsored Research (OSR), under award Nos. OSR2019-CRG8-4801, OSR-2017-CRG6-3427, and CRF-2015-SENSORS-2708. D.X.Z and H.L.B. acknowledge financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11704278, 51772207, and 11434006) and Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City (19JCQNJC03000). Z.Q.Q. acknowledges financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 (van der Waals heterostructures program, KCWF16). Computational resources were provided by the New York University Shanghai.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Journal
ACS NanoPubMed ID
33606942Additional Links
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c10200ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/acsnano.0c10200
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