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Large unconventional anomalous Hall effect far above room temperature in epitaxial Fe$_3$Ga$_4$ films

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Pith's one-line read Epitaxial Fe3Ga4 films show an unconventional anomalous Hall resistivity of about 0.36 µΩ cm at 350 K in a field of only 0.35 T, spanning roughly 100 to 380 K.

desk verdict A real materials advance with a load-bearing Hall-subtraction assumption; worth refereeing, but the magnitude of the UAHE signal needs independent validation. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.07434 v1 pith:LZOGKPRP submitted 2025-07-10 cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.str-el

Jing Meng , Huali Yang , Yu Shen , Kun Zheng , Hongru Wang , Yuhao Wang , Keqi Xia , Bocheng Yu
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Xiaoyan Zhu Baiqing Lv Yaobo Huang Jie Ma Dariusz Jakub Gawryluk Toni Shiroka Zhenzhong Yang Yang Xu Qingfeng Zhan Tian Shang
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keywords unconventionalanomalousHalleffectscalarspinchiralitytransverseconicalspiralFe3Ga4epitaxialfilmsmetamagnetictransitionsroom-temperaturespintronicshelimagnetism
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The reading

Epitaxial Fe3Ga4 films show a large unconventional anomalous Hall effect far above room temperature. In the intermediate antiferromagnetic phases, between roughly 100 K and 380 K, an extra Hall contribution builds up and peaks at about 0.36 µΩ cm at 350 K in a field of only 0.35 T. The paper argues that this hump comes from fluctuation-driven scalar spin chirality in the field-induced transverse-conical-spiral magnetic state, not from skyrmion-like topological textures. The result matters because most materials with such chirality-driven Hall signals require cryogenic temperatures or large magnetic fields, whereas this film operates near room temperature in a small field, making it a candidate for spintronic devices.

What carries the argument

The central object is the scalar spin chirality $\chi_{ijk} = \mathbf{S}_i \cdot (\mathbf{S}_j \times \mathbf{S}_k)$, the solid angle subtended by three neighboring spins, which acts as a virtual magnetic field on conduction electrons. The field-induced transverse-conical-spiral (TCS) magnetic phase carries the noncoplanar spin arrangement whose thermal or dynamic fluctuations produce a finite $\chi_{ijk}$. The analysis machinery is the additive decomposition of the measured Hall resistivity into $\rho_{xy} = R_0 H + S_H \rho_{xx}^2 M + \rho^U_{xy}$, where the first two terms are the ordinary and conventional anomalous Hall contributions and the residual hump $\rho^U_{xy}$ is the claimed unconventional contribution. A comparison of $\rho^U_{xy}$ with the topological Hall signal estimated from magnetic-bubble density is what rules out skyrmion textures as the dominant source.

What would settle it

Measure the Hall resistivity of the same film in the forced-ferromagnetic phase above Hc3 at 350 K and apply the identical subtraction procedure, since the paper reports the residual vanishes there: a surviving hump would indicate the subtraction is missing a field-dependent background. Alternatively, fit $\rho_{xy}(H)$ with a two-band ordinary Hall model and repeat the subtraction; if $\rho^U_{xy}$ at 0.35 T disappears or changes shape, the claimed chirality contribution is not separately established.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central discovery is that a modest magnetic field applied perpendicular to the film plane transforms the helical-spiral order of epitaxial Fe3Ga4 into a transverse-conical-spiral state whose fluctuating spin chirality generates an unconventional anomalous Hall resistivity as large as 0.36 µΩ cm at 350 K in a field of 0.35 T. The signal is confined to the intermediate antiferromagnetic phases, AFM1 and AFM2 below the third metamagnetic field Hc3, and spans about 100 to 380 K. It nearly vanishes in the low-temperature ferromagnetic state and above Hc3. The paper shows that the magnitude expected from the emergent magnetic field of topological magnetic bubbles is roughly a thousand times smaller than the measured residual, so skyrmion textures cannot be the main origin; instead the study credits fluctuation-driven scalar spin chirality of the noncoplanar conical state, a mechanism previously invoked for kagome metals and supported by a concurrent neutron-scattering study of bulk Fe3Ga4.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the measured Hall resistivity is exactly a field-linear ordinary term plus a magnetization-proportional anomalous term with field-independent coefficients, so the leftover hump is a real magnetic-chirality contribution; if either coefficient changes with magnetic field, or the ordinary part curves because there are two types of carriers, the leftover hump could be a subtraction artifact.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Epitaxial Fe3Ga4 films provide a platform where a large chirality-driven Hall response is available near room temperature in fields below about 0.4 T, useful for magnetic sensing or electrical readout in spintronic devices.
  • The unconventional anomalous Hall signal tracks the metamagnetic phase boundaries, so field, temperature, and strain can tune the Hall response; piezoelectric or strain engineering should modulate it.
  • Because the signal arises from the transverse-conical-spiral phase rather than from skyrmions, noncoplanar conical spin order alone can produce large topological-like Hall signals, widening the search to centrosymmetric helimagnets.
  • Applying the same decomposition procedure to other helimagnetic intermetallics with helical-spiral-to-conical transitions may reveal comparable room-temperature unconventional Hall effects.
  • The large signal in films about 80 nm thick indicates that interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is not required, and thinner films with different capping layers should allow the mechanism to be tested and tuned.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The paper's finding that magnetic-bubble density scales linearly with the residual Hall signal, while the calculated skyrmion topological contribution is a thousand times too small, suggests the bubble-like domains visible in magnetic force microscopy may be the conical state itself rather than skyrmions; direct Lorentz transmission electron microscopy or neutron scattering on the same films could
  • A natural extension is a thickness series below about 20 nm with varied capping layers, which would isolate any interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya contribution and show whether the transverse-conical-spiral phase and its Hall signal survive or shift.
  • The subtraction model's robustness could be tested by adding a two-band ordinary Hall term or by allowing the anomalous Hall coefficient to depend on field; if the residual hump at 0.35 T disappears or changes shape under such fits, the chirality interpretation would need revision.
  • The concurrent neutron-scattering study noted in the paper proposes a nontrivial spin texture in the same phase window; if that texture is a fluctuation-stabilized conical state rather than a skyrmion lattice, the fluctuation-chirality picture would be confirmed.
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Summary. The manuscript reports the growth and characterization of epitaxial Fe3Ga4 films on SrTiO3 substrates, and claims the observation of a large unconventional anomalous Hall effect (UAHE) in the intermediate antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase, spanning roughly 100–380 K and peaking at about 0.36 μΩ cm at 350 K in 0.35 T. The Hall resistivity is decomposed into ordinary (linear in H), anomalous (proportional to M with a field-independent coefficient), and unconventional components. The unconventional term appears only in the AFM1 and AFM2 phases, which the authors identify with the transverse conical spiral (TCS) phase of bulk Fe3Ga4, and is attributed to fluctuation-driven scalar spin chirality rather than to skyrmions, based on an order-of-magnitude estimate from magnetic force microscopy bubble densities.

Significance. The reported UAHE, if genuine, would be notable: it appears well above room temperature and in a low magnetic field, which is rare for fluctuation-driven chiral transport. The paper is also strong in its systematic temperature- and field-dependent magnetization and transport measurements, the construction of a magnetic phase diagram, and the inclusion of a quantitative estimate that the skyrmion topological contribution is about 10^3 times smaller than the observed signal. The authors also provide some robustness checks on the choice of anomalous Hall scaling. However, the central claim rests on a subtraction procedure whose underlying assumptions are not fully tested, and the identification of the film's magnetic phases as TCS is inferred from bulk studies rather than measured directly in the film. These issues are load-bearing for the main conclusion, so the paper is of interest but requires additional validation.

major comments (3)
  1. [Methods, 'Analysis of Hall resistivity'; Fig. 5a–c; Supplementary S13] The subtraction procedure assumes a field-independent anomalous Hall coefficient and a strictly linear ordinary Hall term (ρxy = R0H + SHρxx²M + ρU_xy). The robustness check in Supplementary S13 varies only the functional form of the M weighting (SHρxx² vs SHρxx vs SH), but does not test whether the coefficients themselves are field-dependent. In the metamagnetic region between Hc1 and Hc3, different magnetic phases coexist and may contribute with different anomalous Hall coefficients, so scaling a single coefficient by the total M(H) could over- or under-subtract and produce a spurious hump. The paper should report a more stringent test, for example a two-band or multi-coefficient analysis, an extraction of R0 and SH from the high-field forced-ferromagnetic regime where ρU_xy is assumed zero, or a direct measurement in the paramagnetic state if attainable. Without such checks, or without error bars on the extracted ρU_xy, the robustness of the central claim cannot be independently assessed.
  2. [Discussion, 'Now we discuss the possible mechanisms...'; Magnetic phase diagram, Fig. 5d] The assignment of the film's AFM1 and AFM2 phases to the transverse conical spiral state is made by analogy with the bulk Fe3Ga4 phase diagram (Refs 38, 41, 42), and the same assignment is then used to explain the UAHE via fluctuation-driven scalar spin chirality. This is a potential circularity: if the phases are identified partly by the presence of the UAHE itself, then the mechanism argument is not independent. The authors should either provide direct structural or real-space evidence for the TCS state in the film (e.g., Lorentz transmission electron microscopy, resonant x-ray scattering, or a thickness-dependent study) or soften the claim to say that the observed UAHE is consistent with the TCS scenario for the film, as inferred from bulk measurements.
  3. [Discussion, MFM estimate; Supplementary S17] The quantitative estimate that the skyrmion topological Hall resistivity is about 0.1–1×10⁻⁴ μΩ cm, three orders of magnitude smaller than the observed ρU_xy, is a strong argument against a skyrmion origin. However, the linear scaling between bubble density and ρU_xy(H) is noted as a feature also seen in skyrmion-hosting systems, so it does not by itself distinguish the fluctuation-driven mechanism. This is not a flaw, but the interpretation would be more convincing if the authors also showed that the extracted ρU_xy is insensitive to the details of the bubble-counting threshold and that the bubble density is truly representative of the film's bulk, given that the MFM probe is surface sensitive.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Introduction, second paragraph] There are a few typographical errors, e.g., 'refered' and 'unconvenional anomalous Hall resistivity' in the second paragraph; these should be corrected.
  2. [Fig. 1 caption and main text] The notation for crystal orientations (b axis, ac plane) is sometimes confusing because the relationship between the monoclinic b axis and the film growth direction is not explicitly shown in a coordinate diagram; a small schematic would help the reader follow the field-orientation dependence.
  3. [Data availability] The data availability statement says raw data are available 'upon request'. Given that the central claim depends on a subtraction procedure, depositing the raw Hall and magnetization data in a public repository would strengthen reproducibility and allow independent verification of the ρU_xy extraction.

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No significant circularity: the UAHE is an experimental residual from a standard Hall decomposition, and the TCS-phase attribution rests on independent bulk neutron-scattering studies, not on self-citation or definitional reduction.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is an experimental measurement, not a derivation. The unconventional anomalous Hall resistivity is obtained by subtracting ordinary (R0H) and anomalous (RSM or SH rho_xx^2 M) Hall terms from the measured rho_xy, and the residual is reported as an observed quantity. The robustness checks described in the text and Supplementary Fig. S13—using different functional forms of the magnetization weighting—show that the residual hump is not an artifact of a particular parametrization. Moreover, the residual is nearly absent in the low-temperature FM state, so it is not forced by construction across all phases. The identification of the film's AFM1 and AFM2 phases as transverse-conical-spiral states is explicitly presented as a likelihood ('most likely to host a TCS state'), and it is anchored to independent neutron-diffraction and theoretical studies of bulk Fe3Ga4 by other groups (Refs. 40-42, 48), not to self-citations. The MFM-based estimate independently disfavors topological skyrmions as the dominant source. The main weakness—that a field-dependent anomalous Hall coefficient or multi-band ordinary Hall nonlinearity could produce a spurious residual—is a correctness/robustness concern, not a circularity. No equation in the paper reduces the claimed UAHE to the fitted parameters by definition, and no load-bearing premise is justified solely by a citation to the same authors.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The core result rests on the standard three-term Hall decomposition and on the assumption that the film magnetic phases mirror the bulk. The only fitted quantities are the ordinary and anomalous Hall coefficients used in the subtraction. No new entities are introduced.

free parameters (2)
  • R0 (ordinary Hall coefficient) = not given in main text (Supplementary Fig. S12)
    Fitted per temperature assuming rho_U vanishes at high fields; the amplitude and shape of rho_U depend on this subtraction.
  • SH/RS (anomalous Hall coefficient) = not given in main text (Supplementary Fig. S12)
    Fitted per temperature using rho_A = SH rho_xx^2 M in the AFM state and rho_A = RS M in the FM state; central residual rho_U depends on this choice, with some robustness checks in Supplementary S13.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Hall resistivity decomposes as rho_xy = rho_O + rho_A + rho_U
    Standard decomposition used throughout the field; invoked in Methods 'Analysis of Hall resistivity'.
  • domain assumption In the AFM state rho_A = SH rho_xx^2 M with field-independent SH; in the FM state rho_A = RS M with field-independent RS
    Assumed in the Hall subtraction; if the coefficient is field dependent, the extracted rho_U changes. Partially checked in Supplementary S13.
  • domain assumption Ordinary Hall term is linear in H (single-band approximation)
    Used to subtract rho_O = R0H; a multi-band nonlinear ordinary Hall is not discussed.
  • ad hoc to paper The AFM1 and AFM2 phases of the film correspond to the transverse conical spiral (TCS) phase of bulk Fe3Ga4
    The film spin structure is not directly measured; the TCS assignment is inferred from the bulk phase diagram (Refs 41,42) and underlies the SSC mechanism attribution.
  • domain assumption Fluctuation-driven SSC mechanism established for bulk Fe3Ga4 also applies to epitaxial films
    Invoked in Discussion citing Refs 38 and 41; no film-specific fluctuation measurement is provided.

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abstract

Noncoplanar spin textures usually exhibit a finite scalar spin chirality (SSC) that can generate effective magnetic fields and lead to additional contributions to the Hall effect, namely topological or unconventional anomalous Hall effect (UAHE). Unlike topological spin textures (e.g., magnetic skyrmions), materials that exhibit fluctuation-driven SSC and UAHE are rare. So far, their realization has been limited to either low temperatures or high magnetic fields, both of which are unfavorable for practical applications. Identifying new materials that exhibit UAHE in a low magnetic field at room temperature is therefore essential. Here, we report the discovery of a large UAHE far above room temperature in epitaxial Fe$_3$Ga$_4$ films, where the fluctuation-driven SSC stems from the field-induced transverse-conical-spiral phase. Considering their epitaxial nature and the large UAHE stabilized at room temperature in a low magnetic field, Fe$_3$Ga$_4$ films represent an exciting, albeit rare, case of a promising candidate material for spintronic devices.

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