Quantum-metric-induced nonlinear transport in a topological antiferromagnet

The Berry curvature and quantum metric are the imaginary part and real part, respectively, of the quantum geometric tensor, which characterizes the topology of quantum states1. The Berry curvature is known to generate a number of important transport phenomena, such as the quantum Hall effect and the...

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Main Authors: Wang, Naizhou, Kaplan, Daniel, Zhang, Zhaowei, Holder, Tobias, Cao, Ning, Wang, Aifeng, Zhou, Xiaoyuan, Zhou, Feifei, Jiang, Zhengzhi, Zhang, Chusheng, Ru, Shihao, Cai, Hongbing, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Yan, Binghai, Gao, Weibo
Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171358
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:The Berry curvature and quantum metric are the imaginary part and real part, respectively, of the quantum geometric tensor, which characterizes the topology of quantum states1. The Berry curvature is known to generate a number of important transport phenomena, such as the quantum Hall effect and the anomalous Hall effect2,3; however, the consequences of the quantum metric have rarely been probed by transport measurements. Here we report the observation of quantum-metric-induced nonlinear transport, including both a nonlinear anomalous Hall effect and a diode-like non-reciprocal longitudinal response, in thin films of a topological antiferromagnet, MnBi2Te4. Our observations reveal that the transverse and longitudinal nonlinear conductivities reverse signs when reversing the antiferromagnetic order, diminish above the Néel temperature and are insensitive to disorder scattering, thus verifying their origin in the band-structure topology. They also flip signs between electron- and hole-doped regions, in agreement with theoretical calculations. Our work provides a means to probe the quantum metric through nonlinear transport and to design magnetic nonlinear devices.