Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Room-temperature tetragonal non-collinear Heusler antiferromagnet Pt2MnGa

  • Sanjay Singh,
  • S. W. D’Souza,
  • J. Nayak,
  • E. Suard,
  • L. Chapon,
  • A. Senyshyn,
  • V. Petricek,
  • Y. Skourski,
  • M. Nicklas,
  • C. Felser,
  • S. Chadov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12671
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The control of different types of magnetic order is central to the study and development of spintronic devices. Here, the authors evidence an exchange-stabilized helix state with a low energy barrier for reversal in a room-temperature antiferromagnetic Heusler material.