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Antiferromagnetic spintronic devices have the potential to outperform conventional ferromagnetic devices due to their ultrafast dynamics and high data density. A challenge in designing these devices is the control and detection of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-20 Sarah Jenkins , Roy W. Chantrell , Richard F. L. Evans

Spintronics uses spins, the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, as an alternative for the electron charge. Its long-term goal is in the development of beyond-Moore low dissipation technology devices. Recent progress demonstrated the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-14 R. Lebrun , A. Ross , S. A. Bender , A. Qaiumzadeh , L. Baldrati , J. Cramer , A. Brataas , R. A. Duine , M. Kläui

We consider a mesoscopic mechanism of the exchange interaction in a system of alternating ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic metallic layers. In the case of small mesoscopic samples the sign and the amplitude of the exchange energy turn out to be…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Spivak , A. Zyuzin

The discovery of new mechanisms of controlling magnetic properties by electric fields or currents furthers the fundamental understanding of magnetism and has important implications for practical use. Here, we present a novel approach of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-21 Pavel Salev , Iana Volvach , Dayne Sasaki , Pavel Lapa , Yayoi Takamura , Vitaliy Lomakin , Ivan K Schuller

We report on the possibility to detect hinge spin polarization in magnetic topological insulators by resistance measurements. By implementing a three-dimensional model of magnetic topological insulators into a multi-terminal device with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Stephan Roche

Spatial confinement of electronic topological surface states (TSS) in topological insulators poses a formidable challenge because TSS are protected by time-reversal symmetry. In previous works formation of a gap in the electronic spectrum…

We investigate the far-from-equilibrium nature of magnetic anisotropy and exchange interactions between molecular magnets embedded in a tunnel junction. By mapping to an effective spin model, these magnetic interactions can be divided into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Jonas Fransson , Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu

The intrinsic noncollinear spin patterns in rare-earth pyrochlore are physically interesting, hosting many emergent properties, e.g. spin ice and monopole-type excitation. Recently, the magnetic monopole excitation of spin ice systems was…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-18 Lin Lin , Y. L. Xie , J. -J. Wen , Shuai Dong , Z. B. Yan , J. -M. Liu

The rapidly expanding research in Spintronics, the electronics utilizing the electron spin instead of its charge, is driven by the very interesting potential applications. The actual task is to develop principles for the spin manipulations…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Scherbakov , A. V. Akimov , D. R. Yakovlev , W. Ossau , L. Hansen , A. Waag , L. W. Molenkamp

The thermodynamic properties of the pyrochlore Yb2Ti2O7 material are calculated using the numericallinked-cluster (NLC) calculation method for an effective anisotropic-exchange spin-1/2 Hamiltonian with parameters recently determined by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-11 N. R. Hayre , K. A. Ross , R. Applegate , T. Lin , R. R. P. Singh B. D. Gaulin , M. J. P. Gingras

We study THz emission from ferromagnet / nonmagnetic material (FM/NM) spintronic nanostructures in which the $Ni_xCu_{1-x}$ alloy with different $x$ is used as an FM, an NM, or both layers. The stoichiometric composition of the NiCu alloys…

Electrically induced ionic motion offers a new way to realize voltage-controlled magnetism, opening the door to a new generation of logic, sensor, and data storage technologies. Here, we demonstrate an effective approach to…

Electrical current-induced deterministic magnetization switching in a magnetic multilayer structure without external magnetic field is realized by utilizing interlayer exchange coupling. Two ferromagnetic Co layers, with in-plane and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-04 Yu Sheng , Kevin William Edmonds , Xingqiao Ma , Houzhi Zheng , Kaiyou Wang

Using a three-dimensional focused-ion beam lithography process we have fabricated nanopillar devices which show spin transfer torque switching at zero external magnetic fields. Under a small in-plane external bias field, a field-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. Wu , A. Aziz , D. Morecroft , M. G. Blamire , M. C. Hickey , M. Ali , G. Burnell , B. J. Hickey

Composite materials consisting of coupled magnetic and ferroelectric layers hold the promise for new emergent properties such as controlling magnetism with electric fields. Obviously, the interfacial coupling mechanism plays a crucial role…

Spin insulatronics covers efforts to generate, detect, control, and utilize high-fidelity pure spin currents and excitations inside magnetic insulators. Ultimately, the new findings may open doors for pure spin-based information and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Arne Brataas , Bart van Wees , Olivier Klein , Gregoire de Loubens , Michel Viret

We investigate theoretically the prospects for using a magnetic nanoelectromechanical single-electron tunneling (NEM-SET) device as an electronic spin filter. We find that strong magnetic exchange forces on the net spin of the mobile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Robert I. Shekhter , Artem Pulkin , Mats Jonson

We propose and investigate a spin transistor device consisting of two ferromagnetic leads connected by a two-dimensional topological insulator as the channel material. It exploits the unique features of the topological spin-helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Xianbo Xiao , Ying Liu , Zhengfang Liu , Guoping Ai , Shengyuan A. Yang , Guanghui Zhou

Electric control of magnetic vortex dynamics in a reproducible way and on an ultrafast time scale is key element in the quest for efficient spintronic devices with low-energy consumption. To be useful the control scheme should ideally be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 Dongxing Yu , Jiyong Kang , Jamal Berakdar , Chenglong Jia

We study the role of thermal magnons in the spin and heat transport across a normal-metal/insulating-ferromagnet interface, which is beyond an elastic electronic spin transfer. Using an interfacial exchange Hamiltonian, which couples spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Scott A. Bender , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak