Anomalous Nernst and Hall effects in magnetized platinum and palladium

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Abstract

We study the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) and anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in proximity-induced ferromagnetic palladium and platinum which is widely used in spintronics, within the Berry phase formalism based on the relativistic band structure calculations. We find that both the anomalous Hall (σxyAσ_{xy}^A) and Nernst (αxyAα_{xy}^A) conductivities can be related to the spin Hall conductivity (σxySσ_{xy}^S) and band exchange-splitting (ΔexΔ_{ex}) by relations σxyA=ΔexeℏσxyS(EF)′σ_{xy}^A =Δ_{ex}\frac{e}{\hbar}σ_{xy}^S(E_F)' and αxyA=−π23kB2TΔexℏσxys(μ)"α_{xy}^A = -\frac{π^2}{3}\frac{k_B^2TΔ_{ex}}{\hbar}σ_{xy}^s(μ)", respectively. In particular, these relations would predict that the σxyAσ_{xy}^A in the magnetized Pt (Pd) would be positive (negative) since the σxyS(EF)′σ_{xy}^S(E_F)' is positive (negative). Furthermore, both σxyAσ_{xy}^A and αxyAα_{xy}^A are approximately proportional to the induced spin magnetic moment (msm_s) because the ΔexΔ_{ex} is a linear function of msm_s. Using the reported msm_s in the magnetized Pt and Pd, we predict that the intrinsic anomalous Nernst conductivity (ANC) in the magnetic platinum and palladium would be gigantic, being up to ten times larger than, e.g., iron, while the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) would also be significant.

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