Giant and Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Unconventional Collinear Antiferromagnets with Nonrelativistic Spin-Momentum Coupling
Libor Šmejkal, Anna Birk Hellenes, Rafael González‐Hernández, Jairo Sinova, T. Jungwirth
Abstract
Unconventional antiferromagnets exhibit spin-dependent ohmic and tunneling transport effects that are crucial for information readout in spintronics devices and that, so far, were reserved exclusively to ferromagnets.
Topics & Concepts
Condensed matter physicsSpintronicsPhysicsQuantum tunnellingMagnetoresistanceSpin (aerodynamics)AntiferromagnetismGiant magnetoresistanceFerromagnetismMagnetizationQuantum mechanicsMagnetic fieldThermodynamicsPhysics of Superconductivity and MagnetismMagnetic properties of thin filmsMagnetic Field Sensors Techniques