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Published March 16, 2007 | Published + Submitted
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Microscopic and macroscopic signatures of antiferromagnetic domain walls

Abstract

Magnetotransport measurements on small single crystals of Cr, the elemental antiferromagnet, reveal the hysteretic thermodynamics of the domain structure. The temperature dependence of the transport coefficients is directly correlated with the real-space evolution of the domain configuration as recorded by x-ray microprobe imaging, revealing the effect of antiferromagnetic domain walls on electron transport. A single antiferromagnetic domain wall interface resistance is deduced to be of order 5×10^(−5)  μΩ cm^2 at a temperature of 100 K.

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© 2007 The American Physical Society. (Received 13 November 2006; published 16 March 2007). We are indebted to Leslie Sanford for assistance with sample preparation. The work at the University of Chicago was supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant No. DMR-0534296. The Advanced Photon Source is supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. W-31-109-Eng-38. R. J. gratefully acknowledges additional financial support from the NSF. The work in London was funded by the Royal Society and the Basic Technologies programme of RCUK.

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