Abstract
Electrical resistivity is systematically investigated in Mn3AgN and related compounds with an antiperovskite structure. Despite its overall metallic character, Mn3AgN features a broad maximum in the temperature-resistivity curve in the paramagnetic state and the temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) is negative at higher temperatures. The resistivity-peak temperature was tuned to just room temperature by the partial substitution of Cu for Ag, and a TCR as low as 10−6 K−1 was achieved over a wide temperature window including room temperature. These peculiar behaviors are possibly due to collapse of coherent quasiparticle states by strong magnetic scattering.
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