- Yi, Di;
- Flint, Charles L;
- Balakrishnan, Purnima P;
- Mahalingam, Krishnamurthy;
- Urwin, Brittany;
- Vailionis, Arturas;
- N’Diaye, Alpha T;
- Shafer, Padraic;
- Arenholz, Elke;
- Choi, Yongseong;
- Stone, Kevin H;
- Chu, Jiun-Haw;
- Howe, Brandon M;
- Liu, Jian;
- Fisher, Ian R;
- Suzuki, Yuri
Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) plays a critical role in the development of spintronics, thereby demanding new strategies to control PMA. Here we demonstrate a conceptually new type of interface induced PMA that is controlled by oxygen octahedral rotation. In superlattices comprised of La_{1-x}Sr_{x}MnO_{3} and SrIrO_{3}, we find that all superlattices (0≤x≤1) exhibit ferromagnetism despite the fact that La_{1-x}Sr_{x}MnO_{3} is antiferromagnetic for x>0.5. PMA as high as 4×10^{6} erg/cm^{3} is observed by increasing x and attributed to a decrease of oxygen octahedral rotation at interfaces. We also demonstrate that oxygen octahedral deformation cannot explain the trend in PMA. These results reveal a new degree of freedom to control PMA, enabling discovery of emergent magnetic textures and topological phenomena.