Spin decoherence independent of antiferromagnetic order in IrMn

We investigate the impact of pinned antiferromagnetic order on the decoherence of spin current in polycrystalline IrMn. In NiFe/Cu/IrMn/CoFe multilayers, we coherently pump an electronic spin current from NiFe into IrMn, whose antiferromagnetic order is globally pinned by static exchange-bias coupli...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review. B 2019-01, Vol.99 (2), p.1, Article 024435
Hauptverfasser: Khodadadi, Behrouz, Lim, Youngmin, Smith, David A., Greening, Ryan W., Zheng, Yuankai, Diao, Zhitao, Kaiser, Christian, Emori, Satoru
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Zusammenfassung:We investigate the impact of pinned antiferromagnetic order on the decoherence of spin current in polycrystalline IrMn. In NiFe/Cu/IrMn/CoFe multilayers, we coherently pump an electronic spin current from NiFe into IrMn, whose antiferromagnetic order is globally pinned by static exchange-bias coupling with CoFe. We observe no anisotropic spin decoherence with respect to the orientation of the pinned antiferromagnetic order. We also observe no difference in spin decoherence for samples with and without pinned antiferromagnetic order. Moreover, although there is a pronounced resonance linewidth increase in NiFe that coincides with the switching of IrMn/CoFe, we show that this is not indicative of anisotropic spin decoherence in IrMn. Our results demonstrate that the decoherence of electron-mediated spin current is remarkably insensitive to the magnetization state of the antiferromagnetic IrMn spin sink.
ISSN:2469-9950
2469-9969
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.99.024435