Mengqi Zhao, Aitian Chen, Pei-Yuan Huang, Chen Liu, Laichuan Shen, Jiahao Liu, Le Zhao, Bin Fang, Wen-Cheng Yue, Dongxing Zheng, Ledong Wang, Hao Bai, Ka Shen, Yan Zhou, Shasha Wang, Enlong Liu, Shikun He, Yong-Lei Wang, Xixiang Zhang, Wanjun Jiang
{"title":"Electrical detection of mobile skyrmions with 100% tunneling magnetoresistance in a racetrack-like device","authors":"Mengqi Zhao, Aitian Chen, Pei-Yuan Huang, Chen Liu, Laichuan Shen, Jiahao Liu, Le Zhao, Bin Fang, Wen-Cheng Yue, Dongxing Zheng, Ledong Wang, Hao Bai, Ka Shen, Yan Zhou, Shasha Wang, Enlong Liu, Shikun He, Yong-Lei Wang, Xixiang Zhang, Wanjun Jiang","doi":"10.1038/s41535-024-00655-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-024-00655-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that are regarded as promising information carriers for next-generation spintronic memory and computing devices. For practical applications, their deterministic generation, manipulation, and efficient detection are the most critical aspects. Although the generation and manipulation of skyrmions have been extensively studied, efficient electrical detection of mobile skyrmions by using techniques that are compatible with modern magnetic memory technology, remains to be adequately addressed. Here, through integrating magnetic multilayers that host nanoscale skyrmions, together with the magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ), we demonstrate the electrical detection of skyrmions by using the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) effect with a TMR ratio that reaches over 100% at room temperature. By building prototype three-terminal racetrack-like devices, we further show the electrical detection of mobile skyrmions by recording the time-dependent TMR ratios. Along with many recent developments, our results could advance the development of skyrmionic memory and logic devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":19283,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Materials","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141319785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fangze Liu, Cheng Peng, Edwin W. Huang, Brian Moritz, Chunjing Jia, Thomas P. Devereaux
{"title":"Emergence of antiferromagnetic correlations and Kondolike features in a model for infinite layer nickelates","authors":"Fangze Liu, Cheng Peng, Edwin W. Huang, Brian Moritz, Chunjing Jia, Thomas P. Devereaux","doi":"10.1038/s41535-024-00659-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-024-00659-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report a determinant quantum Monte Carlo study of a two-band model, inspired by infinite-layer nickelates, focusing on the influence of interlayer hybridization between <span>(3{d}_{{x}^{2}-{y}^{2}})</span> orbitals derived from Ni (or Ni and O) in one layer and rare-earth (<i>R</i>) 5<i>d</i> orbitals in the other layer, hereafter the Ni and <i>R</i> layers, respectively. For a filling with one electron shared between the two layers on average, interlayer hybridization leads to “self-doped\" holes in the Ni layer and the absence of antiferromagnetic ordering, but rather the appearance of spin-density and charge-density stripe-like states. As the interlayer hybridization increases, both the Ni and <i>R</i> layers develop antiferromagnetic correlations, even though either layer individually remains away from half-filling. For hybridization within an intermediate range, roughly comparable to the intralayer nearest-neighbor hopping <i>t</i><sub>Ni</sub>, the model develops signatures of Kondo-like physics.</p>","PeriodicalId":19283,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Materials","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141264897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph A. M. Paddison, Hao Zhang, Jiaqiang Yan, Matthew J. Cliffe, Michael A. McGuire, Seung-Hwan Do, Shang Gao, Matthew B. Stone, David Dahlbom, Kipton Barros, Cristian D. Batista, Andrew D. Christianson
{"title":"Cubic double perovskites host noncoplanar spin textures","authors":"Joseph A. M. Paddison, Hao Zhang, Jiaqiang Yan, Matthew J. Cliffe, Michael A. McGuire, Seung-Hwan Do, Shang Gao, Matthew B. Stone, David Dahlbom, Kipton Barros, Cristian D. Batista, Andrew D. Christianson","doi":"10.1038/s41535-024-00650-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-024-00650-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Magnetic materials with noncoplanar magnetic structures can show unusual physical properties driven by nontrivial topology. Topologically-active states are often multi-<b>q</b> structures, which are challenging to stabilize in models and to identify in materials. Here, we use inelastic neutron-scattering experiments to show that the insulating double perovskites Ba<sub>2</sub>YRuO<sub>6</sub> and Ba<sub>2</sub>LuRuO<sub>6</sub> host a noncoplanar 3-<b>q</b> structure on the face-centered cubic lattice. Quantitative analysis of our neutron-scattering data reveals that these 3-<b>q</b> states are stabilized by biquadratic interactions. Our study identifies double perovskites as a highly promising class of materials to realize topological magnetism, elucidates the stabilization mechanism of the 3-<b>q</b> state in these materials, and establishes neutron spectroscopy on powder samples as a valuable technique to distinguish multi-<b>q</b> from single-<b>q</b> states, facilitating the discovery of topologically-nontrivial magnetic materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":19283,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Materials","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141264803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arjun Raghavan, Marisa Romanelli, Julian May-Mann, Anuva Aishwarya, Leena Aggarwal, Anisha G. Singh, Maja D. Bachmann, Leslie M. Schoop, Eduardo Fradkin, Ian R. Fisher, Vidya Madhavan
{"title":"Atomic-scale visualization of a cascade of magnetic orders in the layered antiferromagnet GdTe3","authors":"Arjun Raghavan, Marisa Romanelli, Julian May-Mann, Anuva Aishwarya, Leena Aggarwal, Anisha G. Singh, Maja D. Bachmann, Leslie M. Schoop, Eduardo Fradkin, Ian R. Fisher, Vidya Madhavan","doi":"10.1038/s41535-024-00660-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-024-00660-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>GdTe<sub>3</sub> is a layered antiferromagnet which has attracted attention due to its exceptionally high mobility, distinctive unidirectional incommensurate charge density wave (CDW), superconductivity under pressure, and a cascade of magnetic transitions between 7 and 12 K, with as yet unknown order parameters. Here, we use spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy to directly image the charge and magnetic orders in GdTe<sub>3</sub>. Below 7 K, we find a striped antiferromagnetic phase with twice the periodicity of the Gd lattice and perpendicular to the CDW. As we heat the sample, we discover a spin density wave with the same periodicity as the CDW between 7 and 12 K; the viability of this phase is supported by our Landau free energy model. Our work reveals the order parameters of the magnetic phases in GdTe<sub>3</sub> and shows how the interplay between charge and spin can generate a cascade of magnetic orders.</p>","PeriodicalId":19283,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Materials","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141187683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elliott W. Rosenberg, Matthias Ikeda, Ian R. Fisher
{"title":"The nematic susceptibility of the ferroquadrupolar metal TmAg2 measured via the elastocaloric effect","authors":"Elliott W. Rosenberg, Matthias Ikeda, Ian R. Fisher","doi":"10.1038/s41535-024-00658-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-024-00658-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Elastocaloric measurements of the ferroquadrupolar/nematic rare-earth intermetallic TmAg<sub>2</sub> are presented. TmAg<sub>2</sub> undergoes a cooperative Jahn-Teller-like ferroquadrupolar phase transition at 5K, in which the Tm<sup>3+</sup> ion’s local 4<i>f</i> electronic ground state doublet spontaneously splits and develops an electric quadrupole moment which breaks the rotational symmetry of the tetragonal lattice. The elastocaloric effect, which is the temperature change in the sample induced by adiabatic strains the sample experiences, is sensitive to quadrupolar fluctuations in the paranematic phase which couple to the induced strain. We show that elastocaloric measurements of this material reveal a Curie-Weiss like nematic susceptibility with a Weiss temperature of T* ≈ 2.7<i>K</i>, in agreement with previous elastic constant measurements. Furthermore, we establish that a magnetic field along the c-axis acts as an effective transverse field for the quadrupole moments.</p>","PeriodicalId":19283,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Materials","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141177736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Max Hirschberger, Bertalan G. Szigeti, Mamoun Hemmida, Moritz M. Hirschmann, Sebastian Esser, Hiroyuki Ohsumi, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Leonie Spitz, Shang Gao, Kamil K. Kolincio, Hajime Sagayama, Hironori Nakao, Yuichi Yamasaki, László Forró, Hans-Albrecht Krug von Nidda, Istvan Kezsmarki, Taka-hisa Arima, Yoshinori Tokura
{"title":"Lattice-commensurate skyrmion texture in a centrosymmetric breathing kagome magnet","authors":"Max Hirschberger, Bertalan G. Szigeti, Mamoun Hemmida, Moritz M. Hirschmann, Sebastian Esser, Hiroyuki Ohsumi, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Leonie Spitz, Shang Gao, Kamil K. Kolincio, Hajime Sagayama, Hironori Nakao, Yuichi Yamasaki, László Forró, Hans-Albrecht Krug von Nidda, Istvan Kezsmarki, Taka-hisa Arima, Yoshinori Tokura","doi":"10.1038/s41535-024-00654-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-024-00654-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Skyrmion lattices (SkL) in centrosymmetric materials typically have a magnetic period on the nanometer-scale, so that the coupling between magnetic superstructures and the underlying crystal lattice cannot be neglected. We reveal the commensurate locking of a SkL to the atomic lattice in Gd<sub>3</sub>Ru<sub>4</sub>Al<sub>12</sub> via high-resolution resonant elastic x-ray scattering (REXS). Weak easy-plane magnetic anisotropy, demonstrated here by a combination of ferromagnetic resonance and REXS, penalizes placing a skyrmion core on a site of the atomic lattice. Under these conditions, a commensurate SkL, locked to the crystal lattice, is stable at finite temperatures – but gives way to a competing incommensurate ground state upon cooling. We discuss the role of Umklapp-terms in the Hamiltonian for the formation of this lattice-locked state, its magnetic space group, and the role of slight discommensurations, or (line) defects in the magnetic texture. We also contrast our findings with the case of SkLs in noncentrosymmetric material platforms.</p>","PeriodicalId":19283,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Materials","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141085334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electric-field-induced crystallization of Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 thin film based on phase-field modeling","authors":"Zhaobo Liu, Xiaoming Shi, Jing Wang, Houbing Huang","doi":"10.1038/s41535-024-00652-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-024-00652-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ferroelectricity in crystalline hafnium oxide has attracted considerable attention because of its potential application for memory devices. A recent breakthrough involves electric-field-induced crystallization, allowing HfO<sub>2</sub>-based materials to avoid high-temperature crystallization, which is unexpected in the back-end-of-line process. However, due to the lack of clarity in understanding the mechanisms during the crystallization process, we aim to employ theoretical methods for simulation, to guide experimental endeavors. In this work, we extended our phase-field model by coupling the crystallization model and time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation to analyze the crystalline properties and the polarization evolution of Hf<sub>0.5</sub>Zr<sub>0.5</sub>O<sub>2</sub> thin film under applying an electric field periodic pulse. Through this approach, we found a wake-up effect during the process of crystallization and a transformation from orthorhombic nano-domains to the stripe domain. Furthermore, we have proposed an innovative artificial neural synapse concept based on the continuous polarization variation under applied electric field pulses. Our research lays the theoretical groundwork for the advancement of electric-field-induced crystallization in the hafnium oxide system.</p>","PeriodicalId":19283,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Materials","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141085409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charanpreet Singh, Sk Jamaluddin, Subhadip Pradhan, Ashis K. Nandy, Masashi Tokunaga, Maxim Avdeev, Ajaya K. Nayak
{"title":"Higher order exchange driven noncoplanar magnetic state and large anomalous Hall effects in electron doped kagome magnet Mn3Sn","authors":"Charanpreet Singh, Sk Jamaluddin, Subhadip Pradhan, Ashis K. Nandy, Masashi Tokunaga, Maxim Avdeev, Ajaya K. Nayak","doi":"10.1038/s41535-024-00657-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-024-00657-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Owing to geometrical frustration in the kagome lattice, Mn<sub>3</sub>Sn displays a 120° in-plane triangular antiferromagnetic order, a manifestation of exchange interaction within the Heisenberg model. Here, we show the formation of a tunable noncoplanar magnetic ground state stabilized by higher-order exchange interactions in electron-doped Mn<sub>3</sub>Sn samples. Our density Functional Theory calculations reveal that the higher-order exchange induces a partial out-of-plane alignment of the Mn moments, resulting in a canted magnetic state, further experimentally confirmed by neutron diffraction study along with 60 T magnetic and Hall resistivity measurements. Interestingly, we find a large scalar spin chirality-induced Hall signal depending on the degree of non-coplanarity of the Mn moments. Additionally, we demonstrate simultaneous manipulation of two-component order-parameter in the system, where the two Hall signals can be independently manipulated. The present study explores the quantum phenomena associated with the coexistence of multiple magnetic orders and their prospective use in spintronic devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":19283,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Materials","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141085310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. X. M. Riberolles, Tianxiong Han, Tyler J. Slade, J. M. Wilde, A. Sapkota, Wei Tian, Qiang Zhang, D. L. Abernathy, L. D. Sanjeewa, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, R. J. McQueeney, B. G. Ueland
{"title":"New insight into tuning magnetic phases of RMn6Sn6 kagome metals","authors":"S. X. M. Riberolles, Tianxiong Han, Tyler J. Slade, J. M. Wilde, A. Sapkota, Wei Tian, Qiang Zhang, D. L. Abernathy, L. D. Sanjeewa, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, R. J. McQueeney, B. G. Ueland","doi":"10.1038/s41535-024-00656-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-024-00656-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Predicting magnetic ordering in kagome compounds offers the possibility of harnessing topological or flat-band physical properties through tuning of the magnetism. Here, we examine the magnetic interactions and phases of ErMn<sub>6</sub>Sn<sub>6</sub> which belongs to a family of <i>R</i>Mn<sub>6</sub>Sn<sub>6</sub>, <i>R</i> = Sc, Y, Gd–Lu, compounds with magnetic kagome Mn layers, triangular <i>R</i> layers, and signatures of topological properties. Using results from single-crystal neutron diffraction and mean-field analysis, we find that ErMn<sub>6</sub>Sn<sub>6</sub> sits close to the critical boundary separating the spiral-magnetic and ferrimagnetic ordered states typical for non-magnetic versus magnetic <i>R</i> layers, respectively. Finding interlayer magnetic interactions and easy-plane Mn magnetic anisotropy consistent with other members of the family, we predict the existence of a number of temperature and field dependent collinear, noncollinear, and noncoplanar magnetic phases. We show that thermal fluctuations of the Er magnetic moment, which act to weaken the Mn-Er interlayer magnetic interaction and quench the Er magnetic anisotropy, dictate magnetic phase stability. Our results provide a starting point and outline a multitude of possibilities for studying the behavior of Dirac fermions in <i>R</i>Mn<sub>6</sub>Sn<sub>6</sub> compounds with control of the Mn spin orientation and real-space spin chirality.</p>","PeriodicalId":19283,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Materials","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141073849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Large anomalous Hall effect in spin fluctuating devil’s staircase","authors":"Naoki Abe, Yuya Hano, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Yusuke Kozuka, Terumasa Tadano, Yoshihiro Tsujimoto, Kazunari Yamaura, Shintaro Ishiwata, Jun Fujioka","doi":"10.1038/s41535-024-00653-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-024-00653-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Electrons in metals can show a giant anomalous Hall effect (AHE) when interacting with characteristic spin texture. The AHE has been discussed in terms of scalar-spin-chirality (SSC) in long-range-ordered noncollinear spin textures typified by Skyrmion. The SSC becomes effective even in the paramagnetic state with thermal fluctuations, but the resultant AHE has been limited to be very small. Here, we report the observation of large AHE caused by the spin fluctuation near the devil’s staircase transition in a collinear antiferromagnetic metal SrCo<sub>6</sub>O<sub>11</sub>. The AHE is prominent near and above the transition temperature at moderate magnetic fields, where the anomalous Hall angle becomes the highest level among known oxide collinear ferromagnets/antiferromagnets (>2%). Furthermore, the anomalous Hall conductivity is quadratically scaled to the conductivity. These results imply that the thermally induced solitonic spin defects inherent to the devil’s staircase transition promote SSC-induced skew scattering.</p>","PeriodicalId":19283,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Materials","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140953570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}