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铁磁异质结构中自旋轨道力矩的对称性和大小

Symmetry and magnitude of spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic heterostructures

Kevin Garello, Ioan Mihai Miron, Can Onur Avci, Frank Freimuth, Yuriy Mokrousov, Stefan Blügel, Stéphane Auffret, Olivier Boulle, Gilles Gaudin, Pietro Gambardella

摘要:

电流诱导自旋力矩对于在不施加外部磁场的情况下控制纳米磁体的取向具有重要意义。它们直接应用于非易失性数据存储和逻辑器件,并深入了解与电荷和自旋传输之间的相互依赖关系有关的基本过程。最近在铁磁异质结构中的面内电流注入引起的磁化翻转的演示引起了人们对一类基于轨道到自旋动量转移的自旋矩的关注,这是非共线磁性层之间的纯自旋转移矩(STT)的替代,并且适合于更多样化的器件功能。然而,由于研究数量有限,对于自旋轨道力矩(SOT)的对称性、大小和起源仍然没有达成共识。在这里,我们报告的Pt/Co/AlO三层的SOTs的定量矢量测量使用谐波分析的异常和平面霍尔效应作为施加的电流和磁化方向的函数。我们提供了一个通用的计划来测量的幅度和方向的SOTs的任何任意取向的磁化,包括由于霍尔和热电效应的相互作用的校正。基于一般的空间和时间反转对称性参数,我们表明,不对称的异质结构允许两个不同的SOT具有奇数和偶数的行为相对于磁化反转。我们的研究结果揭示了一个场景,超越了建立模型的Rashba和自旋霍尔贡献SOTs。均匀SOT是STT样的,但比Pt中自旋霍尔效应预期的更强。奇SOT是由一个常数场的条款和一个额外的组件,这是强各向异性,不对应于一个简单的Rashba场。

英文摘要:

Current-induced spin torques are of great interest to manipulate the orientation of nanomagnets without applying external magnetic fields. They find direct application in non-volatile data storage and logic devices, and provide insight into fundamental processes related to the interdependence between charge and spin transport. Recent demonstrations of magnetization switching induced by in-plane current injection in ferromagnetic heterostructures have drawn attention to a class of spin torques based on orbital-to-spin momentum transfer, which is alternative to pure spin transfer torque (STT) between noncollinear magnetic layers and amenable to more diversified device functions. Due to the limited number of studies, however, there is still no consensus on the symmetry, magnitude, and origin of spin-orbit torques (SOTs). Here we report on the quantitative vector measurement of SOTs in Pt/Co/AlO trilayers using harmonic analysis of the anomalous and planar Hall effects as a function of the applied current and magnetization direction. We provide an all-purpose scheme to measure the amplitude and direction of SOTs for any arbitrary orientation of the magnetization, including corrections due to the interplay of Hall and thermoelectric effects. Based on general space and time inversion symmetry arguments, we show that asymmetric heterostructures allow for two different SOTs having odd and even behavior with respect to magnetization reversal. Our results reveal a scenario that goes beyond established models of the Rashba and spin Hall contributions to SOTs. The even SOT is STT-like but stronger than expected from the spin Hall effect in Pt. The odd SOT is composed of a constant field-like term and an additional component, which is strongly anisotropic and does not correspond to a simple Rashba field.

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