Magneto-transport and magnetic textures in Ho/FeCoGd/β-W multilayers
arXiv:2201.04696 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.024412
Abstract
The enhancement of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) in magnetic multilayers results in the stabilization of topological spin textures like chiral domain walls and skyrmions. Here we report on the evaluation of interface-driven magnetic interactions in a uniquely designed multilayer where each magnetic layer of two AFM coupled sublattices of 3d and 4f moments is sandwiched between the layers of β-tungsten and holmium whose spin Hall angles are large but opposite in sign. The atomic and magnetic periodicity of these multilayers is established by polarized neutron reflectivity measurements and the presence of a labyrinth domain spin texture of zero remanence with x-ray photoelectron microscopy. Measurements of the Hall resistivity (ρ_{xy}(T, H)) together with static magnetization (M(T,H)) over a broad range of temperature (T) and magnetic field (H) indicate impending compensation between 3d and 4f sublattices at T>350 K. These multilayers are characterized by a small (0.04 %) but positive magnetoresistance indicative of interface enhance scattering and a large (40 nΩ.m) and negative anomalous ρ_{xy}(T,H) which results from a parallel alignment of 4f moments with the external magnetic field. No distinct scaling is seen between ρ_{xy}(T,H), ρ_{xx}(T, H) and M(T,H) at temperatures above 200K where the magnetization develops out-of-plane anisotropy. The field scans of ρ_{xy} at T>200K show a distinct cusp in the vicinity of magnetic saturation. These Hall data have been analyzed in the framework of a model where a distinct topological contribution to ρ_{xy} rides over the anomalous Hall resistivities of the 3d and 4f magnetic sublattices. It is suggested that this apparent topological effect results from an interfacial DMI and dominates ρ_{xy}(T,H) in the temperature regime where the 3d and 4f lattices are nearly compensated.
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