Figure 6.

Representative Reprinted Works Reported on Spin-Orbitronics in Exotic Magnetic Materials beyond the Ferromagnets

(A) Electric switching of antiferromagnet. Unlike conventional SOTs generated in HM/FM bilayers, the opposite signs of spin polarization at individual spin sublattices give staggered SOTs in a single CuMnAs layer (Wadley et al., 2016).

(B) Generation and motion of magnetic skyrmions by spatially divergent SOTs (Jiang et al., 2015).

(C) Electrical switching of a Fe₃GeTe₂ van der Waals material via SOTs generated from the capping Pt layer (Wang et al., 2019a).

(D) Magnetic domain wall motions as well as magnetization switching induced by the torques mediated by spin waves (magnons), the phase and magnitude of which can also be tuned by the domain walls mutually in a nonvolatile manner (Han et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2019b).

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