Tunable spin-flop transition in artificial ferrimagnets
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2101.06155,
title = {Tunable spin-flop transition in artificial ferrimagnets},
author = {N. O. Antropov and E. A. Kravtsov and M. V. Makarova and V. V. Proglyado and T. Keller and I. A. Subbotin and E. M. Pashaev and G. V. Prutskov and A. L. Vasiliev and Yu. M. Chesnokov and N. G. Bebenin and V. V. Ustinov and B. Keimer and Yu. N. Khaydukov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.06155},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
article, 5 pages, 3 figures