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Antiferromagnets (AFMs) with chiral noncollinear spin structure have attracted great attention in recent years. However, the existing research has mainly focused on hexagonal chiral AFMs, such as Mn3Sn, Mn3Ga, Mn3Ge with low crystalline symmetry. Here, we present our systematical study for the face-centered cubic noncollinear antiferromagnetic Mn3Pt. By varying the alloy composition (x), we have successfully fabricated antiferromagnetic Mn1−xPtx epitaxial films on MgO substrates and have observed a crystalline structure transition from L10 MnPt to L12 Mn3Pt. The Mn3Pt exhibits a large anomalous Hall effect, which is in the same order of magnitude as those of ferromagnetic materials. Moreover, a large thickness-evolved strain effect is revealed in Mn3Pt films by X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis based on the Scherrer method. Our work explores Mn3Pt as a promising candidate for topological antiferromagnetic spintronics.
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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant Nos. 2017YFA0303202, and 2017YFA0305300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11974260, 11674246, 51501131, 51671147, 11874283, 51801152, and 11774064), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (Grant Nos. 17ZR1443700, and 19ZR1478700), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
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An, N., Tang, M., Hu, S. et al. Structure and strain tunings of topological anomalous Hall effect in cubic noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Pt epitaxial films. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 63, 297511 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-019-1525-6
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