Surface-symmetry-driven Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya interaction and canted ferrimagnetism in collinear magnetoelectric antiferromagnet CrO
arXiv:2310.13438 · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.132.226702
Abstract
Antiferromagnets are normally thought of as materials with compensated magnetic sublattices. This adds to their technological advantages but complicates readout of the antiferromagnetic state. We demonstrate theoretically the existence of a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) which is determined by the magnetic symmetry classes of CrO surfaces with an in-plane magnetic easy axis. The DMI explains a previously predicted out-of-plane magnetization at the nominally compensated surfaces of chromia, leading to a surface-localized canted ferrimagnetism. This is in agreement with magnetotransport measurements and with density functional theory predictions which further allow us to quantify the strength of DMI. The temperature dependence of the transversal resistance for these planes shows distinct behavior in comparison with that of the CrO plane, which we attribute to the influence of DMI. Our work provides a framework to analyze surface-driven phenomena in antiferromagnets, and motivates the use of nominally compensated chromia surfaces for antiferomagnetic spintronics and magnonics.
arXiv comment8 pages, 3 figures, 73 references
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