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Chiral domain walls of Mn(3)Sn and their memory
Magnetic domain walls are topological solitons whose internal structure is set by competing energies which sculpt them. In common ferromagnets, domain walls are known to be of either Bloch or Néel types. Little is established in the case of Mn(3)Sn, a triangular antiferromagnet with a large room-tem...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616569/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31289269 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10815-8 |
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author | Li, Xiaokang Collignon, Clément Xu, Liangcai Zuo, Huakun Cavanna, Antonella Gennser, Ulf Mailly, Dominique Fauqué, Benoît Balents, Leon Zhu, Zengwei Behnia, Kamran |
author_facet | Li, Xiaokang Collignon, Clément Xu, Liangcai Zuo, Huakun Cavanna, Antonella Gennser, Ulf Mailly, Dominique Fauqué, Benoît Balents, Leon Zhu, Zengwei Behnia, Kamran |
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description | Magnetic domain walls are topological solitons whose internal structure is set by competing energies which sculpt them. In common ferromagnets, domain walls are known to be of either Bloch or Néel types. Little is established in the case of Mn(3)Sn, a triangular antiferromagnet with a large room-temperature anomalous Hall effect, where domain nucleation is triggered by a well-defined threshold magnetic field. Here, we show that the domain walls of this system generate an additional contribution to the Hall conductivity tensor and a transverse magnetization. The former is an electric field lying in the same plane with the magnetic field and electric current and therefore a planar Hall effect. We demonstrate that in-plane rotation of spins inside the domain wall would explain both observations and the clockwise or anticlockwise chirality of the walls depends on the history of the field orientation and can be controlled. |
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spelling | pubmed-66165692019-07-11 Chiral domain walls of Mn(3)Sn and their memory Li, Xiaokang Collignon, Clément Xu, Liangcai Zuo, Huakun Cavanna, Antonella Gennser, Ulf Mailly, Dominique Fauqué, Benoît Balents, Leon Zhu, Zengwei Behnia, Kamran Nat Commun Article Magnetic domain walls are topological solitons whose internal structure is set by competing energies which sculpt them. In common ferromagnets, domain walls are known to be of either Bloch or Néel types. Little is established in the case of Mn(3)Sn, a triangular antiferromagnet with a large room-temperature anomalous Hall effect, where domain nucleation is triggered by a well-defined threshold magnetic field. Here, we show that the domain walls of this system generate an additional contribution to the Hall conductivity tensor and a transverse magnetization. The former is an electric field lying in the same plane with the magnetic field and electric current and therefore a planar Hall effect. We demonstrate that in-plane rotation of spins inside the domain wall would explain both observations and the clockwise or anticlockwise chirality of the walls depends on the history of the field orientation and can be controlled. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6616569/ /pubmed/31289269 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10815-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Li, Xiaokang Collignon, Clément Xu, Liangcai Zuo, Huakun Cavanna, Antonella Gennser, Ulf Mailly, Dominique Fauqué, Benoît Balents, Leon Zhu, Zengwei Behnia, Kamran Chiral domain walls of Mn(3)Sn and their memory |
title | Chiral domain walls of Mn(3)Sn and their memory |
title_full | Chiral domain walls of Mn(3)Sn and their memory |
title_fullStr | Chiral domain walls of Mn(3)Sn and their memory |
title_full_unstemmed | Chiral domain walls of Mn(3)Sn and their memory |
title_short | Chiral domain walls of Mn(3)Sn and their memory |
title_sort | chiral domain walls of mn(3)sn and their memory |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616569/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31289269 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10815-8 |
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