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巨磁阻材料中手征轨道电流的控制

Control of chiral orbital currents in a colossal magnetoresistance material

Yu Zhang, Yifei Ni, Hengdi Zhao, Sami Hakani, Feng Ye, Lance DeLong, Itamar Kimchi, Gang Cao

摘要:

巨磁电阻效应是指在磁场作用下,材料的电导率显著提高的现象。它通常与场致自旋极化相关联,场致自旋极化大大降低了自旋散射,从而降低了电阻。然而,亚铁磁性Mn 3Si 2 Te 6是这一规则的一个有趣的例外:它表现出ab平面电阻率的7个数量级的减少,具有13特斯拉的各向异性场,这仅在避免磁极化时发生[1]。在这里,我们报告了一个奇特的量子态,这是由ab平面手性轨道电流(COC)沿MnTe 6八面体的边缘流动驱动。ab-平面COC的c-轴轨道矩耦合到亚铁磁性Mn自旋,以在外部磁场沿磁性硬c-轴对齐时显著增加ab-平面电导率(CMR)。COC状态及其CMR都非常容易受到超过临界阈值的小DC电流的影响,并且这种COC状态的标志是模仿一阶熔化转变的奇异时间依赖性的开关。COC使能的CMR和CMR开关的控制为量子技术提供了一个全新的范例。

英文摘要:

Colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) is an extraordinary enhancement of the electric conductivity in the presence of a magnetic field. It is conventionally associated with a field-induced spin polarization, which drastically reduces spin scattering and thus electric resistance. However, ferrimagnetic Mn3Si2Te6 is an intriguing exception to this rule: it exhibits a 7-order-of-magnitude reduction in ab-plane resistivity with a 13-Tesla anisotropy field which occur only when a magnetic polarization is avoided [1]. Here we report an exotic quantum state that is driven by ab-plane chiral orbital currents (COC) flowing along edges of MnTe6 octahedra. The c-axis orbital moments of ab-plane COC couple to the ferrimagnetic Mn spins to drastically increase the ab-plane conductivity (CMR) when an external magnetic field is aligned along the magnetic hard c-axis. Both the COC state and its CMR are extraordinarily susceptible to small DC currents exceeding a critical threshold, and a hallmark of this COC state is an exotic time-dependent, bistable switching mimicking a first-order melting transition. The control of the COC-enabled CMR and bistable switching offers a fundamentally new paradigm for quantum technologies.

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