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Magnetochiral tunneling in paramagnetic Co_1/3NbS₂.

ABSTRACT: Electric currents have the intriguing ability to induce magnetization in nonmagnetic crystals with sufficiently low crystallographic symmetry. Some associated phenomena include the non-linear anomalous Hall effect in polar crystals and the nonreciprocal directional dichroism in chiral crystals when magnetic fields are applied. In this work, we demonstrate that the same underlying physics is also manifested in the electronic tunneling process between the surface of a nonmagnetic chiral material and a magnetized scanning probe. In the paramagnetic but chiral metallic compound Co_1/3NbS₂, the magnetization induced by the tunneling current is shown to become detectable by its coupling to the magnetization of the tip itself. This results in a contrast across different chiral domains, achieving atomic-scale spatial resolution of structural chirality. To support the proposed mechanism, we used first-principles theory to compute the chirality-dependent current-induced magnetization and Berry curvature in the bulk of the material. Our demonstration of this magnetochiral tunneling effect opens up an avenue for investigating atomic-scale variations in the local crystallographic symmetry and electronic structure across the structural domain boundaries of low-symmetry nonmagnetic crystals.

SUBMITTER: Lim S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10927506 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Magnetochiral tunneling in paramagnetic Co<sub>1/3</sub>NbS<sub>2</sub>.

Lim Seongjoon S Singh Sobhit S Huang Fei-Ting FT Pan Shangke S Wang Kefeng K Kim Jaewook J Kim Jinwoong J Vanderbilt David D Cheong Sang-Wook SW

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20240227 10

Electric currents have the intriguing ability to induce magnetization in nonmagnetic crystals with sufficiently low crystallographic symmetry. Some associated phenomena include the non-linear anomalous Hall effect in polar crystals and the nonreciprocal directional dichroism in chiral crystals when magnetic fields are applied. In this work, we demonstrate that the same underlying physics is also manifested in the electronic tunneling process between the surface of a nonmagnetic chiral material a ...[more]

PMID: 38412131

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Magnetochiral tunneling in paramagnetic Co_1/3NbS₂.

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Magnetochiral tunneling in paramagnetic Co<sub>1/3</sub>NbS<sub>2</sub>.

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Magnetochiral tunneling in paramagnetic Co1/3NbS2.

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Magnetochiral tunneling in paramagnetic Co<sub>1/3</sub>NbS<sub>2</sub>.

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