Chiral Coupling (IMAGE)

Forschungszentrum Juelich

Chiral Coupling

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The spins (red and blue arrows) in distant magnetic layers can couple due to the discovered long-range interaction, which is illustrated as a white string connecting two spins. This coupling leads to a clockwise canting between the spins in the two layers. Its depicted mirror image with the opposite sense of canting is not found in the considered systems.

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Forschungszentrum Jülich / Jan-Philipp Hanke

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