Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Giant field-like torque by the out-of-plane magnetic spin Hall effect in a topological antiferromagnet

  • Kouta Kondou,
  • Hua Chen,
  • Takahiro Tomita,
  • Muhammad Ikhlas,
  • Tomoya Higo,
  • Allan H. MacDonald,
  • Satoru Nakatsuji,
  • YoshiChika Otani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26453-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Conventional spin-orbit torque (SOT) enables electrical control of in-plane spins, not suitable for perpendicular magnetization. Here, the authors observe a large magnetic-field-like SOT due to a large out-of-plane spin accumulation in topological antiferromagnet Mn3Sn.