Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Peter Grünberg Institut and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich and JARA, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
Phys Rev Lett. 2018 Oct 5;121(14):147203. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.147203.
We measure and analyze the chirality of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-interaction (DMI) stabilized spin textures in multilayers of Ta|Co_{20}F_{60}B_{20}|MgO. The effective DMI is measured experimentally using domain wall motion measurements, both in the presence (using spin-orbit torques) and absence of driving currents (using magnetic fields). We observe that the current-induced domain wall motion yields a change in effective DMI magnitude and opposite domain wall chirality when compared to field-induced domain wall motion (without current). We explore this effect, which we refer to as current-induced DMI, by providing possible explanations for its emergence, and explore the possibility of its manifestation in the framework of recent theoretical predictions of DMI modifications due to spin currents.
我们测量和分析了 Ta|Co_{20}F_{60}B_{20}|MgO 多层膜中 Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya 相互作用(DMI)稳定的螺旋结构的手性。有效 DMI 通过畴壁运动测量进行实验测量,包括在存在(使用自旋轨道转矩)和不存在驱动电流(使用磁场)的情况下。我们观察到,与磁场诱导的畴壁运动(无电流)相比,电流诱导的畴壁运动导致有效 DMI 大小和畴壁手性发生变化。我们通过提供其出现的可能解释来研究这种效应,即电流诱导的 DMI,并探讨在由于自旋电流引起的 DMI 修正的最新理论预测的框架内,其表现的可能性。