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Magnetoresistance driven by the magnetic Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition

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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 104, Issue 2, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L020408

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The study investigates the interplay between electronic and magnetic degrees of freedom near the BKT transition. By focusing on a metal with easy-plane ferromagnetic order, a framework is established that accounts for the coupling between charge current and the flow of topological magnetic defects, leading to the discovery of a temperature-dependent magnetoresistance effect scaling with the density of topological defects.
While the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition (BKT) has been under intense scrutiny for decades, unambiguous experimental signatures in magnetic systems remain elusive. Here, we investigate the interplay between electronic and magnetic degrees of freedom near the BKT transition. Focusing on a metal with easy-plane ferromagnetic order, we establish a framework that accounts both for the coupling between the charge current and the flow of topological magnetic defects and for electron scattering on their inhomogeneous spin texture. We show that electron scattering is responsible for a temperature-dependent magnetoresistance effect scaling as the density of the topological defects, which is expected to increase dramatically above the BKT transition temperature. Our findings call for further experimental investigations.

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