Novel phenomena in magnetically-intercalated graphite has been a subject of much research, pioneered and promoted by M. S. and G. Dresselhaus and many others in the 1980s. Among the most enigmatic findings of that era was a dramatic, roller-coaster-like behavior of the magnetoresistivity in EuC6 compound, in which magnetic Eu 2+ ions form a triangular lattice that is commensurate to graphite honeycomb planes. In this study, we provide a long-awaited microscopic explanation of this behavior, demonstrating that the resistivity of EuC6 is dominated by spin excitations in Eu-planes and their highly nontrivial evolution with the magnetic field. Together with our theoretical analysis, the present study showcases the power of the synthetic 2D materials as a source of potentially significant insights into the nature of exotic spin excitations.
CONTENTSB. 1/S-expansion 8 C. LSWT Hamiltonian 9 D. Diagonalization 10 E. Magnon eigenenergies 10 IV. Kondo coupling and resistivity 11 A. Kondo coupling 11 B. Resistivity 13 1. Large-q insights 13 2. Estimate of J K 14 V. Results 15 A. T -dependence of resistivity 15 B. Magnetoresistivity vs biquadratic-exchange 16 C. Magnetoresistivity, role of k F 17 D. Outlook 20 VI. Summary 21 Acknowledgments 21 A. First order transitions 21 1. Y-UUD transition 21 2. V-FM transition 22 B. Particular cases 23 1. Polarized state 23 2. 120 • state 24 3. Plateau state 24 C. Transport formalism, 1/τ approximation 26 1. Basics and conventions 26 2. Phonon-like spin-conserving scattering 26 a. Ansatz and solution 27 b. 2D case 28 3. Spin-flip scattering 29 4. Quasiparticle 1/τ qp , angular dependence 30 a. Quasiparticle vs transport 1/τ 30 b. Angular dependence of 1/τ qp 32 References 33