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Condensed Matter > Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Title: Hall mass and transverse Noether spin currents in noncollinear antiferromagnets

Abstract: Noncollinear antiferromagnets (AFMs) in the family of Mn$_3X$ ($X$=Ir, Sn, Ge, Pt, etc.) have recently attracted attention in the emerging field of antiferromagnetic spintronics because of their various interesting transport, magnetic, and optical properties. Due to the noncollinear magnetic order, the localized electron spins on different magnetic sublattices are not conserved even when spin-orbit coupling is neglected, making it difficult to understand the transport of spin angular momentum. Here we study the conserved Noether current associated with spin-rotation symmetry of the local spins in noncollinear AFMs. We found that a Hall component of the d.c. spin current can be created by a longitudinal driving force associated with a propagating spin wave, and is proportional to a response coefficient that we denote as the Hall (inverse) mass. Such a Hall spin current can be generated by spin pumping in a ferromagnet (FM)-noncollinear AFM bilayer structure as we demonstrated numerically. Finally we showed that the Hall mass is an isotropic quantity, similar to the isotropic spin Hall conductivity, and should generally exist in noncollinear AFMs and their polycrystals. Our results shed light on the potential of noncollinear AFMs in manipulating the polarization and flow of spin currents in general spintronic devices.
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
Cite as: arXiv:2404.12898 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
  (or arXiv:2404.12898v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall] for this version)

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From: Hua Chen [view email]
[v1] Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:10:17 GMT (950kb,AD)

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