Curvilinear One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets
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Abstract
Antiferromagnets host exotic quasiparticles, support high frequency excitations and are key enablers of the prospective spintronic and spin-orbitronic technologies. Here, we propose a concept of a curvilinear antiferromagnetism where material responses can be tailored by a geometrical curvature without the need to adjust material parameters. We show that an intrinsically achiral one-dimensional (1D) curvilinear antiferromagnet behaves as a chiral helimagnet with geometrically tunable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) and orientation of the Néel vector. The curvature-induced DMI results in the hybridization of spin wave modes and enables a geometrically driven local minimum of the low-frequency branch. This positions curvilinear 1D antiferromagnets as a novel platform for the realization of geometrically tunable chiral antiferromagnets for antiferromagnetic spin-orbitronics and fundamental discoveries in the formation of coherent magnon condensates in the momentum space.
Details
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 8157-8162 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Nano letters |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 11 |
Publication status | Published - 11 Nov 2020 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
PubMed | 32986440 |
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Keywords
- antiferromagnetism, coherent magnon excitations, curvilinear spin chain, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, spin-orbitronics