All-electrical switching of a topological non-collinear antiferromagnet at room temperature.

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State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China.

Published: February 2023

Non-collinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetals, combining the advantages of a zero stray field and ultrafast spin dynamics, as well as a large anomalous Hall effect and the chiral anomaly of Weyl fermions, have attracted extensive interest. However, the all-electrical control of such systems at room temperature, a crucial step toward practical application, has not been reported. Here, using a small writing current density of around 5 × 10 A·cm, we realize the all-electrical current-induced deterministic switching of the non-collinear antiferromagnet MnSn, with a strong readout signal at room temperature in the Si/SiO/MnSn/AlO structure, and without external magnetic field or injected spin current. Our simulations reveal that the switching originates from the current-induced intrinsic non-collinear spin-orbit torques in MnSn itself. Our findings pave the way for the development of topological antiferromagnetic spintronics.

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