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Amir N. Zarezad

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Nonlinear Topological Orbital Responses of Antiferromagnetic Skyrmions

Antiferromagnetic skyrmions evade the skyrmion Hall effect, but compensation suppresses their conventional topological charge Hall signal. We predict a semiclassical nonlinear topological orbital response of an isolated skyrmion in a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric hexagonal antiferromagnet without spin-orbit coupling. In the diffusive, weak-emergent-field regime, the spin-dependent emergent Lorentz force reshapes the carrier distribution, generating a local orbital Hall-current correction and a local orbital accumulation, both quadratic in the applied electric field. The current correction requires spin-asymmetric longitudinal scattering, whereas the accumulation survives spin-symmetric scattering. When the spin-diffusion length greatly exceeds the strip width, the current correction persists while the accumulation approaches zero. Both signals are even under electric-field reversal, odd under reversal of the skyrmion topological charge $Q$, and helicity independent within this model. These symmetries enable rectified detection and distinguish this mechanism from the $Q$-even quantum-regime topological orbital Hall effect.

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Skyrmion-deriven topological spin and charge Hall effects in diffusive antiferromagnetic thin films

We investigate topological Hall effects in a metallic antiferromagnetic (AFM) thin film and/or at the interface of an AFM insulator-normal metal bilayer with a single skyrmion in the diffusive regime. To determine the spin and charge Hall currents, we employed a Boltzmann kinetic equation with both spin-dependent and spin-flip scatterings. The interaction between conduction electrons and static skyrmions is included in the Boltzmann equation via the corresponding emergent magnetic field arising from the skyrmion texture. We compute intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to the topological spin Hall effect and spin accumulation, induced by an AFM skyrmion. We show that although the spin Hall current vanishes rapidly outside the skyrmion, the spin accumulation can be finite at the edges far from the skyrmion, provided the spin diffusion length is longer than the skyrmion radius. In addition, We show that in the presence of a spin-dependent relaxation time, the topological charge Hall effect is finite and we determine the corresponding Hall voltage. Our results may help to explore antiferromagnetic skyrmions by electrical means in real materials.

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