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Magnetic soliton confinement and discretization effects in Cr1/3TaS2 nanoflakes

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拓扑自旋结构在新型磁存储方面有着广阔的应用前景。最近, 层状磁性材料Cr1/3TaS2 (CTS) 被证实是一种手性螺旋磁体, 并且通过洛伦兹电子显微术在该材料中观测到了一维磁孤子。 在本文中, 我们通过测量不同厚度样品的磁输运特性, 证实了CTS 中磁孤子的空间限制与 离散化效应。我们在CTS 纳米片中观测到了磁电阻的回滞和跳跃, 而在块体样品并没有出 现这些现象。在纳米片中, 螺旋磁结构在旋转轴方向上空间受限, 样品所能容纳的磁孤子数 是分立的整数, 且取决于样品厚度。当磁场在垂直于旋转轴方向上不断变化时, 磁孤子数目 只能以整数形式不连续地变化, 从而导致磁电阻产生离散化的跳跃。磁孤子的准粒子特性使 得体系处在分立的不同孤子数状态下时存在能量势垒, 从而导致了磁电阻的回滞现象。我们 的研究结果显示了CTS 在纳米自旋电子学器件领域的巨大潜力。

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This work was financially supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under the Award Nos. CRF-2018-3717-CRG7 and CRF-2019-4081-CRG8. P. Li would like to thank the funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12074056).

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  2. State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China

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  3. Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, 523808, China

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Zhang, CH., Algaidi, H., Li, P. et al. Magnetic soliton confinement and discretization effects in Cr1/3TaS2 nanoflakes. Rare Met. 41, 3005–3011 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-022-02037-7

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