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SUBMITTER: Hanke JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5684220 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hanke Jan-Philipp JP Freimuth Frank F Niu Chengwang C Blügel Stefan S Mokrousov Yuriy Y
Nature communications 20171114 1
Reliable and energy-efficient magnetization switching by electrically induced spin-orbit torques is of crucial technological relevance for spintronic devices implementing memory and logic functionality. Here we predict that the strength of spin-orbit torques and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in topologically nontrivial magnetic insulators can exceed by far that of conventional metals. In analogy to the quantum anomalous Hall effect, we explain this extraordinary response in the absence o ...[more]