Emergent electromagnetic induction in a helical-spin magnet

Tomoyuki Yokouchi (), Fumitaka Kagawa, Max Hirschberger, Yoshichika Otani, Naoto Nagaosa and Yoshinori Tokura ()
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Tomoyuki Yokouchi: RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
Fumitaka Kagawa: RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
Max Hirschberger: RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
Yoshichika Otani: RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
Naoto Nagaosa: RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
Yoshinori Tokura: RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)

Nature, 2020, vol. 586, issue 7828, 232-236

Abstract: Abstract An inductor, one of the most fundamental circuit elements in modern electronic devices, generates a voltage proportional to the time derivative of the input current1. Conventional inductors typically consist of a helical coil and induce a voltage as a counteraction to time-varying magnetic flux penetrating the coil, following Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction. The magnitude of this conventional inductance is proportional to the volume of the inductor’s coil, which hinders the miniaturization of inductors2. Here, we demonstrate an inductance of quantum-mechanical origin3, generated by the emergent electric field induced by current-driven dynamics of spin helices in a magnet. In microscale rectangular magnetic devices with nanoscale spin helices, we observe a typical inductance as large as −400 nanohenry, comparable in magnitude to that of a commercial inductor, but in a volume about a million times smaller. The observed inductance is enhanced by nonlinearity in current and shows non-monotonous frequency dependence, both of which result from the current-driven dynamics of the spin-helix structures. The magnitude of the inductance rapidly increases with decreasing device cross-section, in contrast to conventional inductors. Our findings may pave the way to microscale, simple-shaped inductors based on emergent electromagnetism related to the quantum-mechanical Berry phase.

Date: 2020
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