Zhejunyu Jin, Zhaozhuo Zeng, Yunshan Cao, Peng Yan
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Abstract
It is widely believed that the skyrmion Hall effect is absent in antiferromagnets because of the vanishing topological charge. However, the Aharonov-Casher theory indicates the possibility of topological effects for neutral particles. In this Letter, we predict the skyrmion Hall effect in emerging altermagnets with zero net magnetization and zero skyrmion charge. We first show that the neutral skyrmion manifests as a magnetic quadrupole in altermagnets. We reveal a hidden gauge field from the magnetic quadrupole, which induces the skyrmion Hall effect when driven by spin transfer torque. Interestingly, we identify a sign change of the Hall angle when one swaps the anisotropic exchange couplings in altermagnets. Furthermore, we demonstrate that both the velocity and Hall angle of altermagnetic skyrmions sensitively depend on the current direction. Our findings real the critical role of magnetic quadrupole in driving the skyrmion Hall effect with vanishing charge, and pave the way to discovering new Hall effect of neutral quasiparticles beyond magnetic skyrmions.
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