Nonreciprocal transport in a room-temperature chiral magnet

Abstract

Chiral magnets under broken time-reversal symmetry can give rise to rectification of moving electrons, called nonreciprocal transport. Several mechanisms, such as the spin fluctuation–induced chiral scattering and asymmetry in the electronic band dispersion with and without the relativistic spin-orbit interaction, have been proposed, but clear identification and theoretical description of these different contributions are desired for full understanding of nonreciprocal transport phenomena. Here, we investigate a chiral magnet Co₈Zn₉Mn₃ and find the nonreciprocal transport phenomena consisting of different contributions with distinct field and temperature dependence across the magnetic phase diagram over a wide temperature range including above room temperature. We successfully separate the nonreciprocal resistivity into different components and identify their mechanisms as spin fluctuation–induced chiral scattering and band asymmetry in a single material with the help of theoretical calculations.