Curvilinear One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

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Contributors

  • Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (Author)
  • Denys Y. Kononenko - , Chair of Solid State Theory, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • Kostiantyn V. Yershov - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Author)
  • Ulrich K. Rößler - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • Artem V. Tomilo - , Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (Author)
  • Jürgen Fassbender - , Chair of Applied Solid State Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Author)
  • Jeroen Van Den Brink - , Chair of Solid State Theory, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • Denys Makarov - , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Author)
  • Denis D. Sheka - , Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (Author)

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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8157-8162
Number of pages6
JournalNano letters
Volume20
Issue number11
Publication statusPublished - 11 Nov 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 32986440

Keywords

Keywords

  • antiferromagnetism, coherent magnon excitations, curvilinear spin chain, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, spin-orbitronics