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Unconventional magnetoresistance induced by sperimagnetism in GdFeCo
- Source :
- Physical Review B. 103
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2021.
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Abstract
- We investigate the magnetoresistance of ferrimagnetic GdFeCo across the magnetization compensation temperature ${T}_{\mathrm{M}}$. The magnetic field dependence of longitudinal resistivity (${\ensuremath{\rho}}_{\mathrm{xx}}$) shows opposite trends below and above ${T}_{\mathrm{M}}$, and the variation of ${\ensuremath{\rho}}_{\mathrm{xx}}$ with $B$ becomes more significant as the temperature decreases. The observed unconventional magnetoresistance is attributed to the sperimagnetism of GdFeCo. Further investigations on the transverse resistivity (${\ensuremath{\rho}}_{\mathrm{xy}}$) of GdFeCo unveils that, contrary to the recent reports that the transition metal dominates transport of rare-earth transition-metal ferrimagnets, the Gd contribution to magnetoresistance is comparable to the FeCo contribution, showing that the transport of GdFeCo is antiferromagnetic. Our results therefore show that ferrimagnets are a convenient platform for studying antiferromagnetic spin transport and also are potential materials that can enable antiferromagnetic spin devices.
Details
- ISSN :
- 24699969 and 24699950
- Volume :
- 103
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review B
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........3854e577733b0b6da7afde429990d1ff