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A handy way to rotate chiral spins

In a non-collinear antiferromagnet, elementary spins rotate with opposite handedness with respect to the collective octupole magnetic moment when stirred by spin currents.

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Fig. 1: Opposite handedness of elemental and collective moments in chiral antiferromagnets.

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del Barco, E., Kent, A.D. A handy way to rotate chiral spins. Nat. Mater. 22, 1051–1052 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01647-5

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