Unveiling the Nontrivial Electronic Structures and Fermi Topology of High-Temperature Kagome Ferrimagnet HoMn6Sn6

Nano Lett. 2024 Dec 18;24(50):16031-16038. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c04411. Epub 2024 Nov 29.

Abstract

High-temperature (HT) kagome magnets provide important platforms to explore nontrivial topological physics and promising potentials for spintronic applications, due to the complicated interactions among their electrons, lattices, and magnetism. Herein, the nontrivial electronic properties of a HT layered kagome-magnet, HoMn6Sn6, are systematically resolved by quantum oscillation measurements and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The prominent Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations under pulsed high magnetic fields reveal a high quantum mobility of 0.37 m2·V-1·s-1 for this HT ferrimagnet. The observed multiple-frequency quantum oscillations exhibit various angular dependences, consistent with DFT calculations which suggest a complex Fermi topology of three three-dimensional hole pockets and two electron pockets. The observed π shift of the Berry phase for quantum oscillations unveils nontrivial topological properties in HoMn6Sn6, further confirmed by DFT calculated Dirac fermions and large anomalous Hall conductivity. Our findings establish HoMn6Sn6 as an HT magnetic candidate for topological magnetoelectronics or spin quantum applications.

Keywords: density functional theory calculations; high quantum mobility; high-temperature kagome ferrimagnet; nontrivial topology; quantum oscillations.