Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

A gateway towards non-collinear spin processing using three-atom magnets with strong substrate coupling

  • J. Hermenau,
  • J. Ibañez-Azpiroz,
  • Chr. Hübner,
  • A. Sonntag,
  • B. Baxevanis,
  • K. T. Ton,
  • M. Steinbrecher,
  • A. A. Khajetoorians,
  • M. dos Santos Dias,
  • S. Blügel,
  • R. Wiesendanger,
  • S. Lounis,
  • J. Wiebe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00506-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Information technology based on few atom magnets requires both long spin-energy relaxation times and flexible inter-bit coupling. Here, the authors show routes to manipulate information in three-atom clusters strongly coupled to substrate electrons by exploiting Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interactions.