%0 Journal Article
%A Lima Fernandes, Imara
%A Blügel, Stefan
%A Lounis, Samir
%T Spin-orbit enabled all-electrical readout of chiral spin-textures
%J Nature Communications
%V 13
%N 1
%@ 2041-1723
%C [London]
%I Nature Publishing Group UK
%M FZJ-2022-01845
%P 1576
%D 2022
%X Chirality and topology are intimately related fundamental concepts, which are heavily explored to establish spin-textures as potential magnetic bits in information technology. However, this ambition is inhibited since the electrical reading of chiral attributes is highly non-trivial with conventional current perpendicular-to-plane (CPP) sensing devices. Here we demonstrate from extensive first-principles simulations and multiple scattering expansion the emergence of the chiral spin-mixing magnetoresistance (C-XMR) enabling highly efficient all-electrical readout of the chirality and helicity of respectively one- and two-dimensional magnetic states of matter. It is linear with spin-orbit coupling in contrast to the quadratic dependence associated with the unveiled non-local spin-mixing anisotropic MR (X-AMR). Such transport effects are systematized on various non-collinear magnetic states – spin-spirals and skyrmions – and compared to the uncovered spin-orbit-independent multi-site magnetoresistances. Owing to their simple implementation in readily available reading devices, the proposed magnetoresistances offer exciting and decisive ingredients to explore with all-electrical means the rich physics of topological and chiral magnetic objects.
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ 35332149
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000773001900008
%R 10.1038/s41467-022-29237-0
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/907114