Orbital Torque in Rare-Earth Transition-Metal Ferrimagnets.
Phys Rev Lett
; 132(23): 236702, 2024 Jun 07.
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Orbital currents have recently emerged as a promising tool to achieve electrical control of the magnetization in thin-film ferromagnets. Efficient orbital-to-spin conversion is required in order to torque the magnetization. Here, we show that the injection of an orbital current in a ferrimagnetic Gd_{y}Co_{100-y} alloy generates strong orbital torques whose sign and magnitude can be tuned by changing the Gd content and temperature. The effective spin-orbital Hall angle reaches up to -0.25 in a Gd_{y}Co_{100-y}/CuO_{x} bilayer compared to +0.03 in Co/CuO_{x} and +0.13 in Gd_{y}Co_{100-y}/Pt. This behavior is attributed to the local orbital-to-spin conversion taking place at the Gd sites, which is about 5 times stronger and of the opposite sign relative to Co. Furthermore, we observe a manyfold increase in the net orbital torque at low temperature, which we attribute to the improved conversion efficiency following the magnetic ordering of the Gd and Co sublattices.
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