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We probe the current-induced magnetic switching of insulating antiferromagnet/heavy metals systems, by electrical spin Hall magnetoresistance measurements and direct imaging, identifying a reversal occurring by domain wall (DW) motion. We…

We clarify that the antiferromagnetic order in the distorted tetrahedral quasi-one dimensional spin system induces electric polarizations. In this system, the effects of the low dimensionality and the magnetic frustration are expected to…

Altermagnetic order, characterized by the N\'{e}el vector, breaks time-reversal symmetry (TRS) even in the nonrelativistic limit. Although spin-polarized and anomalous transport phenomena emerge with this order, they are mutually…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-22 Zheyuan Liu , Shinichiro Asai , Shingo Takahashi , Hiraku Saito , Taro Nakajima , Takatsugu Masuda

Stimulated by recent studies of quantum phases with broken local inversion symmetry, we study the magnetoelectric effect in locally noncentrosymmetric metals. We consider three-dimensional (3D) coupled zigzag chains and demonstrate that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Youichi Yanase

Using systematic effective field theory, we explore the properties of antiferromagnetic films subjected to magnetic and staggered fields that are either mutually aligned or mutually orthogonal. We provide low-temperature series for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-31 Christoph P. Hofmann

Electrical detection of the 180 deg spin reversal, which is the basis of the operation of ferromagnetic memories, is among the outstanding challenges in the research of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Analogous effects to the ferromagnetic…

We show that the antiferromagnetic state commonly observed in the phase diagrams of the iron-based superconductors necessarily triggers loop currents characterized by charge transfer between different Fe $ 3d $ orbitals. This effect is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-17 Markus Klug , Jian Kang , Rafael M. Fernandes , Jörg Schmalian

Electrical manipulation of magnetic order by current-induced spin torques lays the foundation for spintronics. One promising approach is encoding information in the N\'eel vector of antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, particularly to…

Spin current plays a central role in spintronics for driving exotic spin-dependent phenomena and high-performance device applications. Recently, a magnetic spin Hall effect has been discovered in spin-split antiferromagnets including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Chang Pan , Shuai Hu , Fanli Yang , Dongchao Yang , Weijia Fan , Zhong Shi , Liqing Pan , Shiming Zhou , Xuepeng Qiu

The weak antiferromagnetism of URu${}_{2}$Si${}_{2}$ is discussed on the basis of a duality model which takes into account salient features of both itinerant fermions and "localized" component of spin degrees of freedom. The problem is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yukihiro Okuno , Kazumasa Miyake

We report measurements demonstrating that when the Neel vector of the collinear antiferromagnet RuO2 is appropriately canted relative to the sample plane, the antiferromagnet generates a substantial out of plane damping-like torque. The…

Whether a zero-moment antiferromagnet can host an intrinsic half-metallic ground state with a single-spin Fermi surface remains an open question in antiferromagnetic spintronics. Existing proposals in compensated magnets reach only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Xin Chen , Jin Zou , Lipeng Song , Wei Sun , Yiwen Wu , Luyao Zhu , Xu Cheng , Duo Wang , Biplab Sanyal

We demonstrate the possibility to drive an antiferromagnet domain-wall at high velocities by field-like N\'{e}el spin-orbit torques. Such torques arise from current-induced local fields that alternate their orientation on each sub-lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin under applied current, and control magnetization dynamics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 A. Manchon , J. Zelezný , I. M. Miron , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Thiaville , K. Garello , P. Gambardella

Ultrafast electric manipulation of magnetic order in solids is critical for the development of future terahertz data processing. A fascinating concept for such high-speed operation is offered in metallic antiferromagnets by N\'eel…

When a spin-polarized current flows through a ferromagnetic (FM) metal, angular momentum is transferred to the background magnetization via spin-transfer torques. In antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, however, the corresponding problem is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu

The altermagnetism with antiparallel spin alignment exhibits anisotropic spin splitting and may possess an insulating state with a high Neel temperature, while the charge-order-induced ferroelectricity has ultrafast electric polarization…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuhao Gu , Yu-Hui Song , Yihao Wang , Ze-Feng Gao , Huan-Cheng Yang , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

Employing first-principles based calculations, we reexamined the high-pressure phases of the vacancy-ordered iron-selenides, i.e. A2Fe4Se5 phase. A magnetic transition from the block-spin antiferromagnetic phase to Neel-AM phase is observed…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-11 Zilong Li , Xin Ma , Siqi Wu , H. -Q. Yuan , Jianhui Dai , Chao Cao

Antiferromagnetic materials with spin splitting have attracted considerable attention for their symmetry-enabled anisotropic spin textures that sustain a zero net magnetization, thereby facilitating efficient spin-current generation. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiabin Wang , Wancheng Zhang , Zhenhua Zhang , Rui Xiong , Yong Liu , Zhihong Lu

In antiferromagnetic spintronics, the read-out of the staggered magnetization or Neel vector is the key obstacle to harnessing the ultra-fast dynamics and stability of antiferromagnets for novel devices. Here, we demonstrate strong exchange…