Spontaneous nonreciprocal transport in a gate-tunable ferromagnetic Rashba 2-dimensional electron gas

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Main Authors: Lazrak, Gabriel, Abrudan, Radu, Göbel, Borge, Hrabovsky, David, Luo, Chen, Ukleev, Victor, Mallik, Srijani, Vicente-Arche, Luis M., Radu, Florin, Valencia, Sergio, Johansson, Annika, Barthélémy, Agnès, Bibes, Manuel
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author Lazrak, Gabriel
Abrudan, Radu
Göbel, Borge
Hrabovsky, David
Luo, Chen
Ukleev, Victor
Mallik, Srijani
Vicente-Arche, Luis M.
Radu, Florin
Valencia, Sergio
Johansson, Annika
Barthélémy, Agnès
Bibes, Manuel
author_facet Lazrak, Gabriel
Abrudan, Radu
Göbel, Borge
Hrabovsky, David
Luo, Chen
Ukleev, Victor
Mallik, Srijani
Vicente-Arche, Luis M.
Radu, Florin
Valencia, Sergio
Johansson, Annika
Barthélémy, Agnès
Bibes, Manuel
contents The broken inversion symmetry at interfaces of complex oxides gives rise to emergent phenomena, including ferromagnetism and Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which profoundly influence the electronic structure by entangling spin and momentum. While the interplay between Rashba SOC and ferromagnetism is theoretically intriguing, its experimental manifestations remain largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that ferromagnetic 2DEGs at SrTiO$_3$-based interfaces exhibit spontaneous nonreciprocal transport - a distinctive hallmark of Rashba ferromagnets - even in the absence of an external magnetic field. This nonreciprocal response, along with clear signatures of ferromagnetism such as anisotropic magnetoresistance and the anomalous Hall effect (AHE), is strongly tunable by gate voltage. Remarkably, the AHE not only varies in amplitude but even reverses sign, reflecting a subtle interplay between Fermi level position and Berry curvature distribution. These results establish SrTiO$_3$ 2DEGs as a model platform for studying Rashba ferromagnetism and demonstrate active control over transport phenomena in time- and inversion-symmetry-broken systems, paving the way for gate-tunable spintronic devices.
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spellingShingle Spontaneous nonreciprocal transport in a gate-tunable ferromagnetic Rashba 2-dimensional electron gas
Lazrak, Gabriel
Abrudan, Radu
Göbel, Borge
Hrabovsky, David
Luo, Chen
Ukleev, Victor
Mallik, Srijani
Vicente-Arche, Luis M.
Radu, Florin
Valencia, Sergio
Johansson, Annika
Barthélémy, Agnès
Bibes, Manuel
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
The broken inversion symmetry at interfaces of complex oxides gives rise to emergent phenomena, including ferromagnetism and Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which profoundly influence the electronic structure by entangling spin and momentum. While the interplay between Rashba SOC and ferromagnetism is theoretically intriguing, its experimental manifestations remain largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that ferromagnetic 2DEGs at SrTiO$_3$-based interfaces exhibit spontaneous nonreciprocal transport - a distinctive hallmark of Rashba ferromagnets - even in the absence of an external magnetic field. This nonreciprocal response, along with clear signatures of ferromagnetism such as anisotropic magnetoresistance and the anomalous Hall effect (AHE), is strongly tunable by gate voltage. Remarkably, the AHE not only varies in amplitude but even reverses sign, reflecting a subtle interplay between Fermi level position and Berry curvature distribution. These results establish SrTiO$_3$ 2DEGs as a model platform for studying Rashba ferromagnetism and demonstrate active control over transport phenomena in time- and inversion-symmetry-broken systems, paving the way for gate-tunable spintronic devices.
title Spontaneous nonreciprocal transport in a gate-tunable ferromagnetic Rashba 2-dimensional electron gas
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15424