Tunable spin-flop transition in artificial ferrimagnets

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العنوان: Tunable spin-flop transition in artificial ferrimagnets
المؤلفون: Antropov, N. O., Kravtsov, E. A., Makarova, M. V., Proglyado, V. V., Keller, T., Subbotin, I. A., Pashaev, E. M., Prutskov, G. V., Vasiliev, A. L., Chesnokov, Yu. M., Bebenin, N. G., Ustinov, V. V., Keimer, B., Khaydukov, Yu. N.
المصدر: Phys. Rev. B 104, 054414 (2021)
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: Spin-flop transition (SFT) consists in a jump-like reversal of antiferromagnetic magnetic moments into a non-collinear state when the magnetic field increases above the critical value. Potentially the SFT can be utilized in many applications of a rapidly developing antiferromagnetic spintronics. However, the difficulty of using them in conventional antiferromagnets lies in (a) too large switching magnetic fields (b) the need for presence of a magnetic anisotropy, and (c) requirement to apply magnetic field along the correspondent anisotropy axis. In this work we propose to use artificial ferrimagnets in which the spin-flop transition occurs without anisotropy and the transition field can be lowered by adjusting exchange coupling in the structure. This is proved by experiment on artificial Fe-Gd ferrimagnets where usage of Pd spacers allowed us to suppress the transition field by two orders of magnitude.
Comment: article, 5 pages, 3 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.054414
الوصول الحر: http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06155Test
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2101.06155
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv