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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.066601
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SPP1538, HE 3439/9]
- Emmy Noether Program [WU595/3-1]
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Half-metallic ferromagnetism stands for the technologically sought-after metallicity with 100% spin polarization. Electrical transport should, in principle, sensitively probe half-metallic ferromagnetism, since electron-magnon scattering processes are expected to be absent, with clear-cut consequences for the resistivity and the magnetoresistance. Here we present electrical transport data for single-crystalline Co2FeSi, a candidate half-metallic ferromagnet Heusler compound. The data reveal a textbooklike exponential suppression of the electron-magnon scattering rate with decreasing temperature which provides strong evidence that this material indeed possesses perfect spin polarization at low temperature. However, the energy scale for thermally activated spin-flip scattering is relatively low (activation gap Delta approximate to 100 K) which has decisive influence on the magnetoresistance and the anomalous Hall effect, which exhibit strong qualitative changes when crossing T approximate to 100 K. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.066601
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