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Spintronics: Chiral damping

Published

Author(s)

Kyoung-Whan Kim, Hyun-Woo Lee

Abstract

Many objects in nature prefer to spiral in one particular direction to the other. A nanostructured magnetic system with strong spin-orbit coupling now shows that the energy loss is also chiral.
Citation
Nature Materials
Volume
15
Issue
3

Keywords

chiral, chirality, magnetic damping, magnetic dissipation, symmetry breaking, domain wall

Citation

Kim, K. and Lee, H. (2016), Spintronics: Chiral damping, Nature Materials, [online], https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4565 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created February 24, 2016, Updated November 10, 2018