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Magnetization-driven Lifshitz transition and charge-spin coupling in the kagome metal YMn6Sn6
2022, Siegfried, Peter E., Bhandari, Hari, Jones, David C., Ghimire, Madhav P., Dally, Rebecca L., Poudel, Lekh, Bleuel, Markus, Lynn, Jeffrey W., Mazin, Igor I., Ghimire, Nirmal J.
The Fermi surface (FS) is essential for understanding the properties of metals. It can change under both conventional symmetry-breaking phase transitions and Lifshitz transitions (LTs), where the FS, but not the crystal symmetry, changes abruptly. Magnetic phase transitions involving uniformly rotating spin textures are conventional in nature, requiring strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) to influence the FS topology and generate measurable properties. LTs driven by a continuously varying magnetization are rarely discussed. Here we present two such manifestations in the magnetotransport of the kagome magnet YMn6Sn6: one caused by changes in the magnetic structure and another by a magnetization-driven LT. The former yields a 10% magnetoresistance enhancement without a strong SOC, while the latter a 45% reduction in the resistivity. These phenomena offer a unique view into the interplay of magnetism and electronic topology, and for understanding the rare-earth counterparts, such as TbMn6Sn6, recently shown to harbor correlated topological physics.
Elastoresistivity of Heavily Hole-Doped 122 Iron Pnictide Superconductors
2022, Hong, Xiaochen, Sykora, Steffen, Caglieris, Federico, Behnami, Mahdi, Morozov, Igor, Aswartham, Saicharan, Grinenko, Vadim, Kihou, Kunihiro, Lee, Chul-Ho, Büchner, Bernd, Hess, Christian
Nematicity in heavily hole-doped iron pnictide superconductors remains controversial. Sizeable nematic fluctuations and even nematic orders far from magnetic instability were declared in RbFe2As2 and its sister compounds. Here, we report a systematic elastoresistance study of a series of isovalent- and electron-doped KFe2As2 crystals. We found divergent elastoresistance on cooling for all the crystals along their [110] direction. The amplitude of elastoresistivity diverges if K is substituted with larger ions or if the system is driven toward a Lifshitz transition. However, we conclude that none of them necessarily indicates an independent nematic critical point. Instead, the increased nematicity can be associated with another electronic criticality. In particular, we propose a mechanism for how elastoresistivity is enhanced at a Lifshitz transition.