Nodal-line-enhanced quantum geometric effects: anomalous and nonlinear Hall effects in the parity-mixed antiferromagnet NbMnP

TL;DR

This paper theoretically explores how nodal-line features in the electronic structure of NbMnP lead to enhanced quantum geometric effects, resulting in significant anomalous and nonlinear Hall responses driven by Berry curvature.

Contribution

It reveals the role of nodal-line-induced Berry curvature enhancements in the anomalous Hall effects of parity-mixed antiferromagnets, using first-principles calculations.

Findings

Berry curvature is strongly enhanced on a mirror plane.

Nodal-line gaps from spin-orbit coupling induce geometric effects.

NbMnP exhibits large intrinsic Hall responses.

Abstract

The anomalous Hall effect has been understood in terms of the geometric nature of Bloch bands and impurity scattering, and has been observed in a wide variety of magnetic materials such as ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Recently, a large anomalous Hall effect was reported in the noncollinear antiferromagnetic metal NbMnP whose magnetic order is a mixture of the even-parity and the odd-parity magnetic components. Such a magnetic structure is expected to exhibit the anomalous Hall effect and the nonlinear Hall effect from the symmetry breaking of the antiferromagnet ordering. Here, we theoretically investigate the intrinsic anomalous and nonlinear Hall effect of NbMnP induced by the quantum geometry of Bloch band using the first-principles calculation and the Wannier interpolation method. We found that the intrinsic Hall response of NbMnP is predominantly governed by the strongly enhanced Berry curvature and Berry-connection-polarization dipole on a specific mirror plane. These enhanced geometric quantities originate from the spin-orbit-coupling-induced gap openings along the nodal lines. Our results indicate that NbMnP serves as a model system for investigating transport phenomena originating from nodal-lines in parity-mixed antiferromagnets.