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Paaske J, Gaidamauskas E. Tunable Magnetic Anisotropy from Higher-Harmonics Exchange Scattering on the Surface of a Topological Insulator. Phys Rev Lett. 2016;117(17):177201doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.177201.
Paaske, J., & Gaidamauskas, E. (2016). Tunable Magnetic Anisotropy from Higher-Harmonics Exchange Scattering on the Surface of a Topological Insulator. Physical review letters, 117(17), 177201. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.177201
Paaske, Jens, and Gaidamauskas, Erikas. "Tunable Magnetic Anisotropy from Higher-Harmonics Exchange Scattering on the Surface of a Topological Insulator." Physical review letters vol. 117,17 (2016): 177201. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.177201
Paaske J, Gaidamauskas E. Tunable Magnetic Anisotropy from Higher-Harmonics Exchange Scattering on the Surface of a Topological Insulator. Phys Rev Lett. 2016 Oct 21;117(17):177201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.177201. Epub 2016 Oct 20. PMID: 27824441.
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Phys Rev Lett. 2016 Oct 21;117(17):177201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.177201. Epub 2016 Oct 20.

Tunable Magnetic Anisotropy from Higher-Harmonics Exchange Scattering on the Surface of a Topological Insulator.

Physical review letters

Jens Paaske, Erikas Gaidamauskas

Affiliations

  1. Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

PMID: 27824441 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.177201

Abstract

We show that higher-harmonics exchange scattering from a magnetic adatom on the surface of a three dimensional topological insulator leads to a magnetic anisotropy whose magnitude and sign may be tuned by adjusting the chemical potential of the helical surface band. As the chemical potential moves from the Dirac point towards the surface band edge, the surface normal is found to change from a magnetic easy to a hard axis. Hexagonal warping is shown to diminish the region with easy axis anisotropy, and to suppress the anisotropy altogether. This indirect contribution can be comparable in magnitude to the intrinsic term arising from crystal field splitting and atomic spin-orbit coupling, and its tunability with the chemical potential makes the two contributions experimentally discernible, and endows this source of anisotropy with potentially interesting magnetic functionality.

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