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Electrical nucleation, displacement, and detection of antiferromagnetic domain walls in the chiral antiferromagnet Mn 3 Sn
Communications Physics ( IF 5.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-19 , DOI: 10.1038/s42005-020-0381-8
Satoshi Sugimoto , Yoshinobu Nakatani , Yuta Yamane , Muhammad Ikhlas , Kouta Kondou , Motoi Kimata , Takahiro Tomita , Satoru Nakatsuji , Yoshichika Otani

Antiferromagnets exhibiting distinctive responses to the electric and magnetic fields have attracted attention as breakthrough materials in spintronics. The current-induced Néel-order spin-orbit torque can manipulate the antiferromagnetic domain wall (AFDW) in a collinear CuMnAs owing to a lack of local inversion symmetry. Here, we demonstrate that the electrical nucleation, displacement, and detection of AFDWs are also possible in a noncollinear antiferromagnet, i.e., chiral Mn3Sn with local inversion symmetry. The asymmetric magnetoresistance measurements reveal that AFDWs align parallel to the kagome planes in the microfabricated wire. Numerical calculation shows these AFDWs consist of stepwise sub-micron size Bloch wall-like spin textures in which the octupole moment gradually rotates over three segments of domain walls. We further observed that the application of a pulse-current drives these octupole based AFDWs along the wire. Our findings could provide a guiding principle for engineering the AFDW structure in the chiral antiferromagnetic materials.



中文翻译:

手性反铁磁体Mn 3 Sn中反铁磁畴壁的电成核,位移和检测

作为自旋电子学中的突破性材料,反铁磁体对电场和磁场表现出独特的响应,已引起人们的关注。由于缺乏局部反演对称性,电流感应的Néel级自旋轨道转矩可在共线CuMnAs中操纵反铁磁畴壁(AFDW)。在这里,我们证明了在非共线反铁磁体(即手性Mn 3)中AFDW的电成核,位移和检测也是可能的Sn具有局部反演对称性。非对称磁阻测量显示,AFDW与微细加工导线中的kagome平面平行排列。数值计算表明,这些AFDW由逐步亚微米级的Bloch壁状自旋织构组成,其中八极矩在畴壁的三段上逐渐旋转。我们进一步观察到,脉冲电流的应用沿导线驱动了这些基于八极的AFDW。我们的发现可以为手性反铁磁材料中AFDW结构的工程设计提供指导。

更新日期:2020-06-19
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