Atomic-scale control of magnetic anisotropy via novel spin–orbit coupling effect in La 2/3 Sr 1/3 MnO 3 /SrIrO 3 superlattices

Yi, Di; Liu, Jian; Hsu, Shang-Lin; Zhang, Lipeng; Choi, Yongseong; Kim, Jong-Woo; Chen, Zuhuang; Clarkson, James D.; Serrao, Claudy R.; Arenholz, Elke; Ryan, Philip J.; Xu, Haixuan; Birgeneau, Robert J.; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy

doi:10.1073/pnas.1524689113

Title: Atomic-scale control of magnetic anisotropy via novel spin–orbit coupling effect in La _2/3 Sr _1/3 MnO ₃ /SrIrO ₃ superlattices

Journal Article · Thu May 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1524689113· OSTI ID:1253935

Yi, Di ^[1]; Liu, Jian ^[2]; Hsu, Shang-Lin ^[3]; Zhang, Lipeng ^[4]; Choi, Yongseong ^[5]; Kim, Jong-Woo ^[5]; Chen, Zuhuang ^[1]; Clarkson, James D. ^[1]; Serrao, Claudy R. ^[1]; Arenholz, Elke ^[6]; Ryan, Philip J. ^[5]; Xu, Haixuan ^[4]; Birgeneau, Robert J. ^[7]; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^[7]

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996,, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720,, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720,, National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996,
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439,
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720,, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720,, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720,

Significance Interfaces of transition-metal oxides (TMOs) offer a fertile platform to uncover emergent states, which has been extensively explored in 3 d TMOs with strong electron correlations. Recently research on 5 d TMOs with pronounced spin–orbit coupling (SOC) is flourishing due to the emergence of new topological states and potential application in spintronics. Interfaces between 3 d and 5 d TMOs provide a unique test bed to combine the merits of these two fundamental interactions. However, so far research is limited. Here we present results on one model system comprising the ferromagnet La _2/3 Sr _1/3 MnO ₃ and the strong SOC paramagnet SrIrO ₃ . We observe a manipulation of the magnetic anisotropy by tuning the SrIrO ₃ dimensionality, which is accompanied by a novel SOC state in SrIrO ₃ .

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); US Department of Defense (DOD); Army Research Office (ARO); Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) Program; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; DMR 1420620; UT-TENN0112

OSTI ID:: 1253935

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1379387

Journal Information:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 113 Journal Issue: 23; ISSN 0027-8424

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