1. Spin Hall effects in metallic antiferromagnets – perspectives for future spin-orbitronics
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Joseph Sklenar, Wei Zhang, Matthias B. Jungfleisch, Wanjun Jiang, Hilal Saglam, John E. Pearson, John B. Ketterson, and Axel Hoffmann
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Physics ,QC1-999 - Abstract
We investigate angular dependent spin-orbit torques from the spin Hall effect in a metallic antiferromagnet using the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance technique. The large spin Hall effect exists in PtMn, a prototypical CuAu-I-type metallic antiferromagnet. By applying epitaxial growth, we previously reported an appreciable difference in spin-orbit torques for c- and a-axis orientated samples, implying anisotropic effects in magnetically ordered materials. In this work we demonstrate through bipolar-magnetic-field experiments a small but noticeable asymmetric behavior in the spin-transfer-torque that appears as a hysteresis effect. We also suggest that metallic antiferromagnets may be good candidates for the investigation of various unidirectional effects related to novel spin-orbitronics phenomena.
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- 2016
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