Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Electrically induced and detected Néel vector reversal in a collinear antiferromagnet

  • J. Godinho,
  • H. Reichlová,
  • D. Kriegner,
  • V. Novák,
  • K. Olejník,
  • Z. Kašpar,
  • Z. Šobáň,
  • P. Wadley,
  • R. P. Campion,
  • R. M. Otxoa,
  • P. E. Roy,
  • J. Železný,
  • T. Jungwirth,
  • J. Wunderlich

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07092-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Controlling the Néel vector switching is crucial to the antiferromagnetic spintronics but so far limited to 90° reorientations. Here the authors report electrical Néel vector reversal and its detection in a fully compensated collinear antiferromagnet (AF) by exploiting the broken time reversal and spatial inversion symmetries of the AF.