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Probing magnetic exchange interactions with helium

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Date
15/10/2021
Author
Trainer, Christopher
Yim, Chi Ming
Heil, Christoph
Farrar, Liam
Tsurkan, Vladimir
Loidl, Alois
Wahl, Peter
Funder
EPSRC
EPSRC
Grant ID
EP/R031924/1
EP/S005005/1
Keywords
QC Physics
TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
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Abstract
Controlling and sensing spin-polarization of electrons forms the basis of spintronics. Here, we report a study of the effect of helium on the spin-polarization of the tunneling current and magnetic contrast in spin-polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. We show that the magnetic contrast in SP-STM images recorded in the presence of helium depends sensitively on the tunneling conditions. From tunneling spectra and their variation across the atomic lattice we establish that the helium can be reversibly ejected from the tunneling junction by the tunneling electrons. The energy of the tunneling electrons required to eject the helium depends on the relative spin-polarization of the tip and sample, making the microscope sensitive to the magnetic exchange interactions. We show that the time-averaged spin polarization of the tunneling current is suppressed in the presence of helium and thereby demonstrate voltage control of the spin polarization of the tunneling current across the tip-sample junction.
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Trainer , C , Yim , C M , Heil , C , Farrar , L , Tsurkan , V , Loidl , A & Wahl , P 2021 , ' Probing magnetic exchange interactions with helium ' , Physical Review Letters , vol. 127 , no. 16 , 166803 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.166803
Publication
Physical Review Letters
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.166803
ISSN
0031-9007
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 American Physical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.166803
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Funding: CT and PW acknowledge support from EPSRC (EP/R031924/1) and CMY and LSF from EP/S005005/1. C.H. acknowledges support by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Project No. P32144-N36 and the VSC-4 of the Vienna University of Technology. The work was partially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through Transregional Research Collaboration TRR 80 (Augsburg, Munich, and Stuttgart).
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https://journals.aps.org/prl/accepted/5c07cY84Lad1f76d27e830e04d9cee12fabc238fd
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23948

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