A correlated ferromagnetic polar metal by design.

Academic Article

Abstract

  • Polar metals have recently garnered increasing interest because of their promising functionalities. Here we report the experimental realization of an intrinsic coexisting ferromagnetism, polar distortion and metallicity in quasi-two-dimensional Ca3Co3O8. This material crystallizes with alternating stacking of oxygen tetrahedral CoO4 monolayers and octahedral CoO6 bilayers. The ferromagnetic metallic state is confined within the quasi-two-dimensional CoO6 layers, and the broken inversion symmetry arises simultaneously from the Co displacements. The breaking of both spatial-inversion and time-reversal symmetries, along with their strong coupling, gives rise to an intrinsic magnetochiral anisotropy with exotic magnetic field-free non-reciprocal electrical resistivity. An extraordinarily robust topological Hall effect persists over a broad temperature-magnetic field phase space, arising from dipole-induced Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Our work not only provides a rich platform to explore the coupling between polarity and magnetism in a metallic system, with extensive potential applications, but also defines a novel design strategy to access exotic correlated electronic states.
  • Authors

  • Zhang, Jianbing
  • Shen, Shengchun
  • Puggioni, Danilo
  • Wang, Meng
  • Sha, Haozhi
  • Xu, Xueli
  • Lyu, Yingjie
  • Peng, Huining
  • Xing, Wandong
  • Walters, Lauren N
  • Liu, Linhan
  • Wang, Yujia
  • Hou, De
  • Xi, Chuanying
  • Pi, Li
  • Ishizuka, Hiroaki
  • Kotani, Yoshinori
  • Kimata, Motoi
  • Nojiri, Hiroyuki
  • Nakamura, Tetsuya
  • Liang, Tian
  • Yi, Di
  • Nan, Tianxiang
  • Zang, Jiadong
  • Sheng, Zhigao
  • He, Qing
  • Zhou, Shuyun
  • Nagaosa, Naoto
  • Nan, Ce-Wen
  • Tokura, Yoshinori
  • Yu, Rong
  • Rondinelli, James M
  • Yu, Pu
  • Status

    Publication Date

  • July 2024
  • Published In

  • Nature Materials  Journal
  • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Pubmed Id

  • 38605196
  • Start Page

  • 912
  • End Page

  • 919
  • Volume

  • 23
  • Issue

  • 7