High mobility charge transport in a multicarrier altermagnet CrSb

Abstract

A newly identified magnetic phase called altermagnet is being actively studied because of its unprecedented spin-dependent phenomena. Among the candidate materials, CrSb has a particularly high ordering temperature and a large spin-splitting energy, but its transport properties have remained unexplored. In this study, we report the magnetotransport properties of CrSb measured on single crystals. We found that the Hall resistivity shows a nonlinear dependence on the magnetic field at low temperatures. From symmetry-based considerations, however, this behavior cannot be attributed to an anomalous Hall effect, but to a multicarrier effect. A multicarrier fitting to the in-plane conductivity tensor revealed the presence of carriers with high mobility in CrSb, which is an advantage for efficient spin current generation.