Unconventional spin-Hall effect in non-collinear antiferromagnetic Mn3GaN thin films

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Antiferromagnets with triangular spin arrangements attract attention due to the presence of non-trivial spin dependent phenomena. We have grown high quality antiferromagnetic Mn3GaN epitaxial thin films with an anti-perovskite crystalline structure, in which we have observed an unconventional spin-Hall effect. Our theory calculations indicate that such effects depend critically on the type of 120 degree spin configuration, however, the magnetic structure for thin film Mn3GaN is unknown. Our preliminary experiment on WISH confirmed the existence of a 120 degree magnetic structure, but we were unable to determine the specific magnetic symmetry due to the limited beam time and small sample size. Here, we propose more neutron diffraction experiments on WISH to distinguish between all possible magnetic structures. This data would fill the gap between our theory and experiment.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1900051-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/101140252
Provenance
Creator Dr Roger Johnson; Professor Paolo Radaelli; Dr Pascal Manuel
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-02-25T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-03-19T09:25:51Z