• Accepted Paper

Spin order and excitations in the collinear kagome antiferromagnet ${\rm Y_{0.5}Fe_3Sn_3}$

Jin Ding, Yang Liu, Feihao Pan, Yinghao Zhu, Yixi Su, Stanislav E. Nikitin, Ursula B. Hansen, Mechthild Enderle, Zhilun Lu, Linxuan Song, Yong-Chang Lau, Xiaoyan Ma, Enke Liu, and Huiqian Luo

Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 25 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/mjd4-ylmx

Abstract

Kagome lattices host rich magnetic, topological, and transport phenomena owing to their geometric frustration and strong spin correlations. Here we present a systematic neutron scattering study of the kagome metal Y0.5Fe3Sn3, which orders into a collinear c-axis antiferromagnetic (AF) state below TN≈ 551 K. An additional anomalous Hall effect (AHE) contribution beyond the conventional magnetization-scaling response is observed well below TN under an in-plane magnetic field 𝐁∥ab. Elastic neutron scattering demonstrates that the Fe moments preserve their collinear c-axis AF alignment down to 1.5 K at zero field. Inelastic neutron scattering reveals a distinctive Y-shape spin excitation dispersion exhibiting a two-gap structure below 10 meV, likely arising from two non-degenerate spin-wave branches. Polarized neutron measurements further show that the low-temperature spin excitations are strongly anisotropic: the in-plane component Mab dominates while the c-axis component Mc is nearly absent. Upon warming, Mc gradually grows markedly but remains much weaker than Mab even at 300 K. We propose that the unconventional AHE originates from a nonzero scalar spin chirality induced by field-driven spin canting either in the static or dynamic configurations due to gapless excitations. These findings establish the collinear AF kagome metal Y0.5Fe3Sn3 as a platform for chirality-driven AHE without spontaneous spin reorientation.

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