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The recent demonstrations of electrical manipulation and detection of antiferromagnetic spins have opened up a chapter in the spintronics story. In this article, we review the emerging research field that is exploring synergies between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-05 Libor Šmejkal , Yuriy Mokrousov , Binghai Yan , Allan H. MacDonald

Spin textures such as magnetic domain walls and skyrmions have the potential to revolutionize electronic devices by encoding information bits. Although recent advancements in ferromagnetic films have led to promising device prototypes,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-18 Kang Wang , Vineetha Bheemarasetty , Gang Xiao

The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even-parity-wave) collinear compensated spin ordering, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , P. Wadley , D. Kriegner , H. Reichlova , F. Krizek , H. Ohno , L. Smejkal

In recent years, the field of antiferromagnetic spintronics has been substantially advanced. Electric-field control is a promising approach to achieving ultra-low power spintronic devices via suppressing Joule heating. In this article,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Han Yan , Zexin Feng , Peixin Qin , Xiaorong Zhou , Huixin Guo , Xiaoning Wang , Hongyu Chen , Xin Zhang , Haojiang Wu , Chengbao Jiang , Zhiqi Liu

Spintronic and nanomagnetic devices often derive their functionality from layers of different materials and the interfaces between them. This is especially true for synthetic antiferromagnets - two or more ferromagnetic layers that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 R. A. Duine , Kyung-Jin Lee , Stuart S. P. Parkin , M. D. Stiles

Antiferromagnets are magnetically ordered materials which exhibit no net moment and thus are insensitive to magnetic fields. Antiferromagnetic spintronics aims to take advantage of this insensitivity for enhanced stability, while at the…

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

Antiferromagnetic materials have a vanishingly small net magnetization, which generates weak dipolar fields and makes them robust against external magnetic perturbation and rapid magnetization dynamics, as dictated by the geometric mean of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Ankit Shukla , Siyuan Qian , Shaloo Rakheja

The long fascination antiferromagnetic materials have exerted on the scientific community over about a century has been entirely renewed recently with the discovery of several unexpected phenomena including various classes of anomalous spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 V. Bonbien , Fengjun Zhuo , A. Salimath , O. Ly , A. Abbout , A. Manchon

In the past five years, most of the paradigmatic concepts employed in spintronics have been replicated substituting ferromagnets by antiferromagnets in critical parts of the devices. The numerous research efforts directed to manipulate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-19 I. Fina , X. Marti

Recent developments have introduced a groundbreaking form of collinear magnetism known as "altermagnetism". This emerging magnetic phase is characterized by robust time-reversal symmetry breaking, antiparallel magnetic order, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Ling Bai , Wanxiang Feng , Siyuan Liu , Libor Šmejkal , Yuriy Mokrousov , Yugui Yao

Antiferromagnetism couples electron spin to its orbital motion, thus allowing excitation of electron-spin transitions by an ac electric rather than magnetic field - with absorption, exceeding that of common electron spin resonance at least…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-08 Revaz Ramazashvili

Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Su-Huai Wei , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging area of quantum technologies that leverage the coupling between spin and orbital degrees of freedom in exotic materials. Spin-orbit interactions allow spin or angular momentum to be injected via…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-10 Shannon C. Haley , Eran Maniv , Tessa Cookmeyer , Susana Torres-Londono , Meera Aravinth , Joel Moore , James G. Analytis

Skyrmions are topologically protected entities in magnetic materials which have the potential to be used in spintronics for information storage and processing. However, Skyrmions in ferromagnets have some intrinsic difficulties which must…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Joseph Barker , Oleg A. Tretiakov

This article aims at giving a general presentation of spintronics, an important field of research developing today along many new directions in physics of condensed matter. We tried to present simply the physical phenomena involved in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Albert Fert , Frédéric Nguyen van Dau

Spintronics is expected as the next-generation technology based on the novel notch of spin degree of freedom of electrons. Half metals, a class of materials which behave as a metal in one spin direction and an insulator in the opposite spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-19 Xiao HU

Ferromagnets with high spin polarization are known to be valuable for spintronics--a research field that exploits the spin degree of freedom in information technologies. Recently, antiferromagnets have emerged as promising alternative…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-02 Gautam Gurung , Mohamed Elekhtiar , Qing-Qing Luo Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We describe the features of magnonic crystals based upon antiferromagnetic elements. Our main results are that with a periodic modulation of either magnetic fields or system characteristics, such as the anisotropy, it is possible to tailor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Roberto E. Troncoso , Camilo Ulloa , Felipe Pesce , A. S. Nunez

Spintronics is a field of electronics based on using the electron spin instead of its charge. The recent advance in the manipulation of pure spin currents, i.e. angular momentum transfer not associated to conventional charge currents, has…