Spin transport via magnon diffusion in magnetic insulators is important for a broad range of spin-based phenomena and devices. However, the absence of the magnon equivalent of an electric force is a bottleneck. In this Letter, we demonstrate the controlled generation of magnon drift currents in heterostructures of yttrium iron garnet and platinum. By performing electrical injection and detection of incoherent magnons, we find magnon drift currents that stem from the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We can further control the magnon drift by the orientation of the magnetic field. The drift current changes the magnon propagation length by up to AE6% relative to diffusion. We generalize the magnonic spin transport theory to include a finite drift velocity resulting from any inversion asymmetric interaction and obtain results consistent with our experiments.
We report a robust anomalous Nernst effect in Co2MnGa thin films in the thickness regime between 20 and 50 nm. The anomalous Nernst coefficient varied in the range of -2.0 to -3.0 µV/K at 300 K. We demonstrate that the anomalous Hall and Nernst coefficients exhibit similar behavior and fulfill the Mott relation. We simultaneously measure all four transport coefficients of the longitudinal resistivity, transversal resistivity, Seebeck coefficient, and anomalous Nernst coefficient. We connect the values of the measured and calculated Nernst conductivity by using the remaining three magneto-thermal transport coefficients, where the Mott relation is still valid. The intrinsic Berry curvature dominates the transport due to the relation between the longitudinal and transversal transport. Therefore, we conclude that the * a.thomas@ifw-dresden.de 2 Mott relationship is applicable to describe the magneto-thermoelectric transport in Weyl semimetal Co2MnGa as a function of film thickness.
to the emerging class of materials with non-trivial electronic band structure like topological insulators, Dirac or Weyl materials, featuring different topologically protected electronic states. In Weyl materials, these topologically protected electronic states are highly stable quasiparticles in the bulk, known as Weyl fermions, that were first predicted by Hermann Weyl in 1929. [1] These Weyl fermions carry a non-zero chiral charge and always appear in pairs. In a common Weyl material, this chiral charge is ±1; hence, the total chiral charge is zero. In contrast, the fermionic materials host Weyl fermions that are degenerated and carry a higher chiral charge. Remarkably, recently long Fermi arcs were observed in the fermionic material CoSi by Rao et al. [2] Also, Sanchez et al. [3] discovered helicoid-arc quantum states in CoSi.A necessary condition for the existence of Weyl fermions is a broken space or time inversion symmetry. The chiral charge of the material strongly depends on the space group of the crystal structure. CoSi has a cubic B20 crystal structure (space group 198 P2 1 3) with broken space inversion symmetry. This space group was predicted to host sixfold degenerated Weyl fermions. [4] In CoSi, the Weyl fermions carry a chiral charge of up to ±4. In detail, spin 1 excitations with a chiral charge of ±2 and spin 3/2 excitations with a chiral charge of ±4 (Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl fermions) were predicted. [5,6] Electrical transport experiments are a powerful tool to probe the energy spectrum of a material and thereby the specific nature of Weyl fermions. Topological states are massless due to the linear dispersion relation, and thus have an extremely high mobility. While often superimposed by the normal band transport, contributions of the Weyl fermions increase the total electrical conductivity. Consequently, the emerging class of materials with non-trivial electronic band structure has a large overlap with other classes of functional materials like the class of thermoelectric materials. [7] This also holds for CoSi. [5,8,9] Interestingly, related silicides like MnSi, [10] Fe 0.75 Co 0.25 Si [11] and germanides like Fe 1 −x Co x Ge [12,13] also feature skyrmion states.In general, Weyl materials show characteristic quantum effects in the transport, resulting for example in quantum Materials with topological electronic states have emerged as one of the most exciting discoveries of condensed quantum matter, hosting quasiparticles with extremely low effective mass and high mobility. Weyl materials contain such topological states in the bulk and additionally have a non-trivial chiral charge. However, despite known quantum effects caused by these chiral states, the interplay between chiral states, and a charge density wave phase, an ordering of the electrons to a correlated phase is not experimentally explored. Indications for the formation of a charge density wave phase in the Weyl material cobalt monosilicide CoSi are observed. Furthermore, the typical signatures of the charge density wave phase together...
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