Pressure-induced large anomalous Hall effects in a layered ferromagnet CrSiTe3
Abstract Ferromagnetic semiconductor CrSiTe3 with a layered honeycomb structure is a promising candidate for the Chern insulator in a monolayer form. However, detecting its topological transport properties is challenging as Dirac nodes are located far above the Fermi level. High pressure, an effecti...
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| description | Abstract Ferromagnetic semiconductor CrSiTe3 with a layered honeycomb structure is a promising candidate for the Chern insulator in a monolayer form. However, detecting its topological transport properties is challenging as Dirac nodes are located far above the Fermi level. High pressure, an effective route to control the electronic structure, provides an opportunity to measure its topological transport properties. We find that while CrSiTe3 maintains the honeycomb structure up to ~12 GPa, it undergoes an insulator‒metal transition and a nearly concomitant increase of Curie temperature T C from ~33 to ~85 K at P 1 ~ 6 GPa. Furthermore, the saturated magnetization M s along the c-axis exhibits successive drops from M s = 3 $${\mu }_{{\rm{B}}}$$ μ B /Cr at ambient pressure to ~M s /2 at P 1 and to ~M s /3 at 9.8 GPa. Notably, between P 1 and 13.5 GPa, the anomalous Hall conductivity $${\sigma }_{{xy}}^{{AH}}$$ σ xy AH appears below T C and $${\sigma }_{{xy}}^{{AH}}$$ σ xy AH at 2 K exhibits a dome-like pressure evolution, reaching a maximum of $$\sim 67\,{\Omega }^{-1}\,{\text{cm}}^{-1}$$ ~ 67 Ω − 1 cm − 1 , ~ 35% of $${e}^{2}/{hc}$$ e 2 / hc , at 10.4 GPa. These results suggest that large $${\sigma }_{{xy}}^{{AH}}$$ σ xy AH arises from the intrinsic Berry curvature inherent to the band topology of the pressure-induced ferromagnetic metallic states. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-039bdb2c254445ab9c1c1a0ba35235bb2025-08-20T03:16:55ZengNature Portfolionpj 2D Materials and Applications2397-71322025-05-01911910.1038/s41699-025-00567-zPressure-induced large anomalous Hall effects in a layered ferromagnet CrSiTe3Yoonhan Lee0Chang Bae Park1Mangesh Diware2Jiafeng Yan3Sungmo Kang4Jaejun Yu5Jaeyong Kim6Kee Hoon Kim7Department of Physics and Astronomy, CeNSCMR, Seoul National UniversityDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, CeNSCMR, Seoul National UniversityDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, CeNSCMR, Seoul National UniversityDepartment of Physics, Institute for High Pressure, Hanyang UniversityDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Theoretical PhysicsDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Theoretical PhysicsDepartment of Physics, Institute for High Pressure, Hanyang UniversityDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, CeNSCMR, Seoul National UniversityAbstract Ferromagnetic semiconductor CrSiTe3 with a layered honeycomb structure is a promising candidate for the Chern insulator in a monolayer form. However, detecting its topological transport properties is challenging as Dirac nodes are located far above the Fermi level. High pressure, an effective route to control the electronic structure, provides an opportunity to measure its topological transport properties. We find that while CrSiTe3 maintains the honeycomb structure up to ~12 GPa, it undergoes an insulator‒metal transition and a nearly concomitant increase of Curie temperature T C from ~33 to ~85 K at P 1 ~ 6 GPa. Furthermore, the saturated magnetization M s along the c-axis exhibits successive drops from M s = 3 $${\mu }_{{\rm{B}}}$$ μ B /Cr at ambient pressure to ~M s /2 at P 1 and to ~M s /3 at 9.8 GPa. Notably, between P 1 and 13.5 GPa, the anomalous Hall conductivity $${\sigma }_{{xy}}^{{AH}}$$ σ xy AH appears below T C and $${\sigma }_{{xy}}^{{AH}}$$ σ xy AH at 2 K exhibits a dome-like pressure evolution, reaching a maximum of $$\sim 67\,{\Omega }^{-1}\,{\text{cm}}^{-1}$$ ~ 67 Ω − 1 cm − 1 , ~ 35% of $${e}^{2}/{hc}$$ e 2 / hc , at 10.4 GPa. These results suggest that large $${\sigma }_{{xy}}^{{AH}}$$ σ xy AH arises from the intrinsic Berry curvature inherent to the band topology of the pressure-induced ferromagnetic metallic states.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-025-00567-z |
| spellingShingle | Yoonhan Lee Chang Bae Park Mangesh Diware Jiafeng Yan Sungmo Kang Jaejun Yu Jaeyong Kim Kee Hoon Kim Pressure-induced large anomalous Hall effects in a layered ferromagnet CrSiTe3 npj 2D Materials and Applications |
| title | Pressure-induced large anomalous Hall effects in a layered ferromagnet CrSiTe3 |
| title_full | Pressure-induced large anomalous Hall effects in a layered ferromagnet CrSiTe3 |
| title_fullStr | Pressure-induced large anomalous Hall effects in a layered ferromagnet CrSiTe3 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pressure-induced large anomalous Hall effects in a layered ferromagnet CrSiTe3 |
| title_short | Pressure-induced large anomalous Hall effects in a layered ferromagnet CrSiTe3 |
| title_sort | pressure induced large anomalous hall effects in a layered ferromagnet crsite3 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-025-00567-z |
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