Chirality of Bloch domain walls in exchange-biased CoO/Co bilayer studied by waveguide-enhanced neutron spin-flip scattering
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KHAYDUKOV, Yu N., LENK, D., ZDRAVKOV, Vladimir, MORARI, Roman, KELLER, Thomas, SIDORENKO, Anatolie, TAGIROV, Lenar, TIDECKS, Reinhard, HÖRN, Siegfried, KEIMER, Bernhard. Chirality of Bloch domain walls in exchange-biased CoO/Co bilayer studied by waveguide-enhanced neutron spin-flip scattering. In: Physical Review B, 2021, vol. 104, pp. 1-9. ISSN 2469-9950. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.174445
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Physical Review B
Volumul 104 / 2021 / ISSN 2469-9950 /ISSNe 2469-9969

Chirality of Bloch domain walls in exchange-biased CoO/Co bilayer studied by waveguide-enhanced neutron spin-flip scattering

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.174445

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Khaydukov Yu N.123, Lenk D.4, Zdravkov Vladimir56, Morari Roman567, Keller Thomas13, Sidorenko Anatolie67, Tagirov Lenar58, Tidecks Reinhard5, Hörn Siegfried5, Keimer Bernhard1
 
1 Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research,
2 D.V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,
3 Outstation at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ),
4 University of Augsburg,
5 Institut für Physik, Universität Augsburg,
6 Institute of the Electronic Engineering and Nanotechnologies "D. Ghitu",
7 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,
8 Kazan E.K. Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute, Kazan
 
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The magnetic state of exchanged biased CoO(20nm)/Co(dF) bilayers (dF=5-20nm) was studied by means of polarized neutron reflectometry. By introducing a Nb(20 nm) spacer layer between the CoO/Co bilayer and the Al2O3 substrate, we designed a resonator structure with significantly enhanced intensity of the spin-flip (SF) scattering at the position of the optical resonances. For the trained sample with thinnest Co layer (dF=5nm), we detected strong SF scattering at the resonance position to the amount of 30% of the incoming intensity, pointing to a high degree of non-collinearity of the magnetization. With increasing dF, the intensity of the SF scattering decreases linearly. Furthermore, an unconventional asymmetry of up-down and down-up scattering channels at the resonance positions was observed, which we ascribe to the out-of-plane magnetic stray field generated by chiral Bloch domain walls. This field leads to Zeeman splitting of the neutron energies depending on the initial neutron spin polarization. The chirality of the domain walls is assigned to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction emerging at the CoO/Co interface. Our observations might prove useful for the design of spintronic devices based on the exchange bias effect.

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Alumina, aluminum oxide, chirality, Domain walls, Neutron scattering, Neutrons, Quantum optics, resonance, Spin dynamics, Spin polarization