Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Spin-orbit enabled all-electrical readout of chiral spin-textures

  • Imara Lima Fernandes,
  • Stefan Blügel,
  • Samir Lounis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29237-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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One challenge for encoding information in chiral spin textures is how to read the information electrically. Here, Lima Fernandes et al. show that chiral spin textures exhibit a magnetoresistance signature which could allow for efficient electric readout of the chirality and helicity.