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Spintronics is an approach to electronics in which the spin of the electrons is exploited to control the electric resistance R of devices. One basic building block is the spin-valve, which is formed if two ferromagnetic electrodes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Sangeeta Sahoo , Takis Kontos , Jürg Furer , Christian Hoffmann , Matthias Gräber , Audrey Cottet , Christian Schönenberger

In this work, we theoretically study the magnon spin transport in easy-plane antiferromagnetic insulators in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. By exactly calculating the magnon spectrum, we find the band splitting due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Ka Shen

There has been considerable debate on the onset of exotic spin phenomena in quantum wires due to enhanced many-body effects caused by the one-dimensional (1D) alignment of charge carriers. We explain various observed spin effects, such as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Alfredo X. Sánchez , Jean-Pierre Leburton

It is spatial dispersion which is exclusively responsible for the emergence of exchange interaction and magnetic ordering. In contrast, magneto-crystalline anisotropy present in any realistic material brings in a certain non-linearity to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 Konstantinos Koumpouras , Anders Bergman , Olle Eriksson , Dmitry Yudin

The authors show that the magnetization of a magnetostrictive/piezoelectric multiferroic single-domain shape-anisotropic nanomagnet can be switched with very small voltages that generate strain in the magnetostrictive layer. This can be the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Kuntal Roy , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Jayasimha Atulasimha

A prominent character of two-dimensional magnetic systems is the enhanced spin fluctuations, which however reduce the ordering temperature. Here we report that a magnetic field of only one-thousandth of the Heisenberg superexchange…

It is shown that external magnetic field or magnetization induces electric polarization of microscopic isolated magnetic/non-magnetic hybrid structures due to the spin-dependent electron redistribution and mutual capacity. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 P. V. Pyshkin , A. V. Yanovsky

The recent discovery of altermagnets, which exhibit spin splitting without net magnetization, opens new directions for spintronics beyond the limits of ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, and spin orbit coupled systems. We investigate spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pei-Hao Fu , Qianqian Lv , Yong Xu , Jorge Cayao , Jun-Feng Liu , Xiang-Long Yu

Searching for novel antiferromagnetic materials with large magnetotransport response is highly demanded for constructing future spintronic devices with high stability, fast switching speed, and high density. Here we report a colossal…

Spintronics has advanced through discoveries of various electrically-driven spin dynamics in nanomagnets. Here, we report a novel switching dynamics of spin systems driven by spin-orbit torque, using a noncollinear antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yuma Sato , Yutaro Takeuchi , Yuta Yamane , Shun Kanai , Shunsuke Fukami

Antiferromagnets naturally exhibit three obvious advantages over ferromagnets for memory device applications: insensitivity to external magnetic fields, much faster spin dynamics (~THz) and higher packing density due to the absence of any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Zhiqi Liu , Zexin Feng , Han Yan , Xiaoning Wang , Xiaorong Zhou , Peixin Qin , Huixin Guo , Ronghai Yu , Chengbao Jiang

A domain wall in a magnet with easy-axis anisotropy is shown to harbor spin superfluid associated with its spontaneous breaking of the U(1) spin-rotational symmetry. The spin superfluid is shown to have several topological properties, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

A spin system is considered with a Hamiltonian typical of molecular magnets, having dipole-dipole interactions and a single-site magnetic anisotropy. In addition, spin interactions through the common radiation field are included. A fully…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

Spin-orbit coupling induced anisotropies of plasmon dynamics are investigated in two-dimensional semiconductor structures. The interplay of the linear Bychkov-Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions drastically affects the plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. M. Badalyan , A. Matos-Abiague , G. Vignale , J. Fabian

Electric control of magnetism is a vision which drives intense research on magnetic semiconductors and multiferroics. Recently, also ultrathin metallic films were reported to show magnetoelectric effects at room temperature. Here we…

Interfacial engineering enables various emergent effects such as spin reorientations and transport anisotropy. Noncollinear spin textures are essential for realizing many emergent quantum transport phenomena. However, driving such spin…

Unconventional magnetism represents a paradigm shift in condensed matter physics, effectively bridging the fast, high-density advantages of antiferromagnets with the facile read-write capability of ferromagnets. Recent developments in spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiaobing Chen , Weizhao Chen , Qihang Liu

We simulate automotion, the spontaneous transport of a magnetic domain wall under the influence of demagnetization and magnetic anisotropy, in nanoscale spintronic interconnects. In contrast to spin transfer driven magnetic domain wall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Dmitri E. Nikonov , Sasikanth Manipatruni , Ian A. Young

We establish theoretically that in nonmagnetic semiconducting bilayer or multilayer thin film systems rolled up into compact quasi-one-dimensional nanoarchitectures, the ballistic magnetoresistance is very anisotropic: conductances depend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 Ching-Hao Chang , Jeroen van den Brink , Carmine Ortix

Electric field control of magnetic anisotropy in ferromagnets has been intensively pursued in spintronics to achieve efficient memory and computing devices with low energy consumption. Compared with ferromagnets, antiferromagnets hold huge…