• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Imaging and writing magnetic domains in the non-collinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn
  • Contributor: Reichlova, Helena; Janda, Tomas; Godinho, Joao; Markou, Anastasios; Kriegner, Dominik; Schlitz, Richard; Zelezny, Jakub; Soban, Zbynek; Bejarano, Mauricio; Schultheiss, Helmut; Nemec, Petr; Jungwirth, Tomas; Felser, Claudia; Wunderlich, Joerg; Goennenwein, Sebastian T. B.
  • imprint: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019
  • Published in: Nature Communications
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13391-z
  • ISSN: 2041-1723
  • Keywords: General Physics and Astronomy ; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ; General Chemistry ; Multidisciplinary
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Non-collinear antiferromagnets are revealing many unexpected phenomena and they became crucial for the field of antiferromagnetic spintronics. To visualize and prepare a well-defined domain structure is of key importance. The spatial magnetic contrast, however, remains extraordinarily difficult to be observed experimentally. Here, we demonstrate a magnetic imaging technique based on a laser induced local thermal gradient combined with detection of the anomalous Nernst effect. We employ this method in one the most actively studied representatives of this class of materials—Mn<jats:sub>3</jats:sub>Sn. We demonstrate that the observed contrast is of magnetic origin. We further show an algorithm to prepare a well-defined domain pattern at room temperature based on heat assisted recording principle. Our study opens up a prospect to study spintronics phenomena in non-collinear antiferromagnets with spatial resolution.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access