| CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES |
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Giant Spin Transfer Torque in Atomically Thin Magnetic Bilayers |
| Weihao Cao1,2, Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu1,3*, Jiang Xiao4,5, and Wang Yao1,3* |
1Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319, USA
3HKU-UCAS Joint Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics at Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
4Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
5Institute for Nanoelectronics Devices and Quantum Computing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Weihao Cao, Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu, Jiang Xiao et al 2020 Chin. Phys. Lett. 37 107201 |
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Abstract In cavity quantum electrodynamics, the multiple reflections of a photon between two mirrors defining a cavity is exploited to enhance the light-coupling of an intra-cavity atom. We show that this paradigm for enhancing the interaction of a flying particle with a localized object can be generalized to spintronics based on van der Waals 2D magnets. Upon tunneling through a magnetic bilayer, we find that the spin transfer torques per electron incidence can become orders of magnitude larger than $\hbar /2$, made possible by electron's multi-reflection path through the ferromagnetic monolayers as an intermediate of their angular momentum transfer. Over a broad energy range around the tunneling resonances, the damping-like spin transfer torque per electron tunneling features a universal value of $(\hbar/2)\tan (\theta /2)$, depending only on the angle $\theta$ between the magnetizations. These findings expand the scope of magnetization manipulations for high-performance and high-density storage based on van der Waals magnets.
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Received: 01 September 2020
Published: 15 September 2020
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| PACS: |
72.25.-b
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(Spin polarized transport)
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79.60.Jv
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(Interfaces; heterostructures; nanostructures)
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73.40.Gk
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(Tunneling)
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73.40.-c
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(Electronic transport in interface structures)
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| Fund: Supported by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Grant Nos. HKU17303518 and C7036-17W), and the University of Hong Kong (Seed Funding for Strategic Interdisciplinary Research). |
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