Windmill Spin Dynamics and Its Induced Anomalous Hall Effect in Noncollinear Antiferromagnet Mn3Sn

Abstract

We demonstrate that the spin dynamics of the noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn hosts a soft eigenmode that transitions from small-angle oscillation to a large-angle, chiral windmill precession once the canting angle exceeds a threshold set by the bending of the spin order. This windmill precession has a fixed chirality of motion, which couples to conduction electrons via a Berry connection polarizability in the mixed space of momentum and spin order, generating a nonzero Berry curvature. This Berry curvature produces a time-independent, DC anomalous Hall effect that persists throughout windmill precession, in sharp contrast to the vanishing Hall response of the static equilibrium spin order when the Hall plane coincides with the Kagome plane. Our results establish a direct link between spin group symmetry, nonlinear spin dynamics, and quantum geometric transport in noncollinear antiferromagnets.