Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Mixed Weyl semimetals and low-dissipation magnetization control in insulators by spin–orbit torques

  • Jan-Philipp Hanke,
  • Frank Freimuth,
  • Chengwang Niu,
  • Stefan Blügel,
  • Yuriy Mokrousov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01138-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Electric-field control of magnetization switching is highly promising for low-dissipation spintronics. Here, the authors propose an electrically induced topological phase transition mediated by spin orbit torques as attractive way to control magnetization in absence of longitudinal charge currents.