Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Correlation of the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction with Heisenberg exchange and orbital asphericity

  • Sanghoon Kim,
  • Kohei Ueda,
  • Gyungchoon Go,
  • Peong-Hwa Jang,
  • Kyung-Jin Lee,
  • Abderrezak Belabbes,
  • Aurelien Manchon,
  • Motohiro Suzuki,
  • Yoshinori Kotani,
  • Tetsuya Nakamura,
  • Kohji Nakamura,
  • Tomohiro Koyama,
  • Daichi Chiba,
  • Kihiro. T. Yamada,
  • Duck-Ho Kim,
  • Takahiro Moriyama,
  • Kab-Jin Kim,
  • Teruo Ono

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04017-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (DMI) is one of the key factors to control the chiral spin textures in spintronic applications. Here the authors demonstrate the correlation of the DMI with the anisotropy of the orbital magnetic moment and magnetic dipole moment in Pt/Co/MgO ultrathin trilayers.