TY - JOUR
T1 - Coupling between magnetic and transport properties in magnetic layered material Mn2-xZnxSb
AU - Nabi, Md Rafique Un
AU - Basnet, Rabindra
AU - Pandey, Krishna
AU - Chhetri, Santosh Karki
AU - Upreti, Dinesh
AU - Acharya, Gokul
AU - Wang, Fei
AU - Fereidouni, Arash
AU - Churchill, Hugh O.H.
AU - Guan, Yingdong
AU - Mao, Zhiqiang
AU - Hu, Jin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Acta Materialia Inc.
PY - 2023/10/15
Y1 - 2023/10/15
N2 - We synthesized single crystals for Mn2-xZnxSb (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) and studied their magnetic and electronic transport properties. This material system displays rich magnetic phase tunable with temperature and Zn composition. In addition, two groups of distinct magnetic and electronic properties, separated by a critical Zn composition of x = 0.6, are discovered. The Zn-less samples are metallic and characterized by a resistivity jump at the magnetic ordering temperature, while the Zn-rich samples lose metallicity and show a metal-to-insulator transition-like feature tunable by magnetic field. Our findings establish Mn2-xZnxSb as a promising material platform that offers opportunities to study how the coupling of spin, charge, and lattice degrees of freedom governs interesting transport properties in 2D magnets, which is currently a topic of broad interest.
AB - We synthesized single crystals for Mn2-xZnxSb (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) and studied their magnetic and electronic transport properties. This material system displays rich magnetic phase tunable with temperature and Zn composition. In addition, two groups of distinct magnetic and electronic properties, separated by a critical Zn composition of x = 0.6, are discovered. The Zn-less samples are metallic and characterized by a resistivity jump at the magnetic ordering temperature, while the Zn-rich samples lose metallicity and show a metal-to-insulator transition-like feature tunable by magnetic field. Our findings establish Mn2-xZnxSb as a promising material platform that offers opportunities to study how the coupling of spin, charge, and lattice degrees of freedom governs interesting transport properties in 2D magnets, which is currently a topic of broad interest.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.actamat.2023.119251
DO - 10.1016/j.actamat.2023.119251
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85168310455
SN - 1359-6454
VL - 259
JO - Acta Materialia
JF - Acta Materialia
M1 - 119251
ER -