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3D C-paired Spin-Valley Locking materials in collinear antiferromagnetic order

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Abstract

C-paired spin-valley locking(SVL) refers that the spin and valley degree of freedoms are locked by the real space crystal symmetries. Materials with C-paired SVL can generate piezomagnetism(PZM) and transverse spin current. In this letter we first propose the general theory of C-paired SVL and conclude 47 magnetic point groups compatible with collinear antiferromagnetic(AFM) order that one C-paired SVL material must belong to. Depending on how the spin orientations of locked valleys coupled, we classified C-paired SVL into three types: collinear, non-collinear, and collinear + non-collinear. From these 3D collinear AFM materials fabricated in experiments, we predict a series of materials realizing C-paired SVL in the assistance of our package that classifies all momenta in every specific magnetic space group. Among them, CoF2 as the representative material of PZM shows large PZM and spin Hall angle by first-principles calculations. Our study and package build the foundation for identifying and classifying the C-paired SVL phenomenon in 3D magnetic materials and provide numerous materials that own desired controllable magnetic and electronic properties.

Publication: 1. Ma H Y, Hu M, Li N, et al. Multifunctional antiferromagnetic materials with giant piezomagnetism and noncollinear spin current[J]. Nature communications, 2021, 12(1): 1-8.<br>2. In manuscript: 3D C-paired Spin-Valley Locking materials in collinear antiferromagnetic order.

Presenters

  • Mengli Hu

    HKUST

Authors

  • Mengli Hu

    HKUST