All-electrical switching of a topological non-collinear antiferromagnet at room temperature

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作者
Deng, Yongcheng [1 ,2 ]
Liu, Xionghua [1 ,2 ]
Chen, Yiyuan [3 ,4 ,5 ]
Du, Zongzheng [3 ,4 ,5 ]
Jiang, Nai [1 ,2 ]
Shen, Chao [1 ,2 ]
Zhang, Enze [1 ,2 ]
Zheng, Houzhi [1 ,2 ]
Lu, Hai-Zhou [3 ,4 ]
Wang, Kaiyou [1 ,2 ,5 ,6 ,7 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Semicond, State Key Lab Superlatt & Microstruct, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Mat Sci & Optoelect Engn, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[3] Southern Univ Sci & Technol SUSTech, Inst Quantum Sci & Engn, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China
[4] Southern Univ Sci & Technol SUSTech, Dept Phys, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China
[5] Int Quantum Acad, Shenzhen 518048, Peoples R China
[6] Beijing Acad Quantum Informat Sci, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China
[7] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Topol Quantum Computat, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
spintronics; non-collinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetals; all-electrical switching; spin-orbit torques; SPIN-ORBIT TORQUE; MAGNETIZATION;
D O I
10.1093/nsr/nwac154
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Non-collinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetals, combining the advantages of a zero stray field and ultrafast spin dynamics, as well as a large anomalous Hall effect and the chiral anomaly of Weyl fermions, have attracted extensive interest. However, the all-electrical control of such systems at room temperature, a crucial step toward practical application, has not been reported. Here, using a small writing current density of around 5 x 10(6) A center dot cm(-2), we realize the all-electrical current-induced deterministic switching of the non-collinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn, with a strong readout signal at room temperature in the Si/SiO2/Mn3Sn/AlOx structure, and without external magnetic field or injected spin current. Our simulations reveal that the switching originates from the current-induced intrinsic non-collinear spin-orbit torques in Mn3Sn itself. Our findings pave the way for the development of topological antiferromagnetic spintronics.
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