TY - JOUR
T1 - Asymmetric and Symmetric Exchange in a Generalized 2D Rashba Ferromagnet
AU - Ado, I. A.
AU - Qaiumzadeh, A.
AU - Duine, R. A.
AU - Brataas, A.
AU - Titov, M.
PY - 2018/8/20
Y1 - 2018/8/20
N2 - Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is investigated in a 2D ferromagnet (FM) with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type at finite temperatures. The FM is described in the continuum limit by an effective s-d model with arbitrary dependence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and kinetic energy of itinerant electrons on the absolute value of momentum. In the limit of weak SOC, we derive a general expression for the DMI constant D from a microscopic analysis of the electronic grand potential. We compare D with the exchange stiffness A and show that, to the leading order in small SOC strength αR, the conventional relation D=(4mαR/)A, in general, does not hold beyond the Bychkov-Rashba model. Moreover, in this model, both A and D vanish at zero temperature in the metal regime (i.e., when two spin sub-bands are partly occupied). For nonparabolic bands or nonlinear Rashba coupling, these coefficients are finite and acquire a nontrivial dependence on the chemical potential that demonstrates the possibility to control the size and chirality of magnetic textures by adjusting a gate voltage.
AB - Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is investigated in a 2D ferromagnet (FM) with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type at finite temperatures. The FM is described in the continuum limit by an effective s-d model with arbitrary dependence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and kinetic energy of itinerant electrons on the absolute value of momentum. In the limit of weak SOC, we derive a general expression for the DMI constant D from a microscopic analysis of the electronic grand potential. We compare D with the exchange stiffness A and show that, to the leading order in small SOC strength αR, the conventional relation D=(4mαR/)A, in general, does not hold beyond the Bychkov-Rashba model. Moreover, in this model, both A and D vanish at zero temperature in the metal regime (i.e., when two spin sub-bands are partly occupied). For nonparabolic bands or nonlinear Rashba coupling, these coefficients are finite and acquire a nontrivial dependence on the chemical potential that demonstrates the possibility to control the size and chirality of magnetic textures by adjusting a gate voltage.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.086802
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.086802
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052790981
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 121
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 8
M1 - 086802
ER -