Electric field control of magnon spin currents in an antiferromagnetic insulator
Changjiang Liu, Yongming Luo, Deshun Hong, Steven S.-L. Zhang, Hilal Saglam, Yi Li, Yulin Lin, Brandon Fisher, John E. Pearson, J. S. Jiang, Hua Zhou, Jianguo Wen, Axel Hoffmann, Anand Bhattacharya
Abstract
. Crucially, this spin-flop can be turned on or off by applying an electric field across the thickness of the film. Using this tunability, we demonstrate electric field–induced switching of the polarization of magnon spin currents by varying only a gate voltage while at a fixed magnetic field. We propose a model considering an electric field–dependent spin-flop transition, arising from a change in sublattice magnetizations via a magnetoelectric coupling. These results provide a different approach toward controlling magnon spin current in antiferromagnets.