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Xia Cheng1, Zhenzhou Guo1, Tie Yang2
1Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales2500, Australia.
Abstract:
Sliding ferroelectric (FE) metals provide a practical route to combine switchable out-of-plane polarization with metallicity, yet realizing electrically reversible magnetization and Berry-curvature-driven anomalous transport and magneto-optical effects in a topological system remains challenging. Here, we establish a symmetry-based framework for sliding FE metals with ferrimagnetism. We show that interlayer sliding breaks the combined spin space symmetry, thereby inducing reversible out-of-plane polarization, nonrelativistic spin splitting, and finite net magnetization, namely, triply-coupled switching. Guided by this principle, we identify the MnIn2Se4 bilayer as a realistic sliding FE ferrimagnetic (FiM) metal hosting Weyl points, in which in-plane sliding enables robust triply-coupled switching, while spin-orbit coupling gaps the Weyl points and produces strong Berry curvature around the Fermi level, leading to large and electrically switchable anomalous transport and magneto-optical effects. Our results establish sliding FE FiM metals with topological states as a promising platform for electrically switchable, high-speed, and low-dissipation spintronic devices.
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