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Ferromagnetic spin-valves and tunneling junctions are crucial for spintronics applications and are one of the most fundamental spintronics devices. Motivated by the potential unique advantages of antiferromagnets for spintronics, we…

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We theoretically study the current-induced spin torque in antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions, composed of two semi-infinite antiferromagnetic layers separated by a tunnel barrier, in both clean and disordered regimes. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 H. Saidaoui , A. Manchon , X. Waintal

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics, where an AFM N\'eel vector is used as a state variable. Efficient electric control and detection of the N\'eel vector are critical for spintronic applications.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-07 Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

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…

We study spin-dependent electron transport through a ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic-normal metal tunneling junction subject to a voltage or temperature bias, in the absence of spin-orbit coupling. We derive microscopic formulas for various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Kei Yamamoto , Olena Gomonay , Jairo Sinova , Georg Schwiete

Voltage-driven spin transfer torque in a magnetic tunnel junction comprising magnetic insulating electrodes is studied theoretically. In contrast with the conventional magnetic tunnel junctions comprising transition metal ferromagnets, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Y. Yuan A. Manchon

Theoretical investigations of spin transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions using the tight-binding model in the framework of non-equilibrium Green functions formalism are presented. We show that the behavior of the spin transfer torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Chshiev , I. Theodonis , A. Kalitsov , N. Kioussis , W. H. Butler

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics driven by the advantages of antiferromagnets producing no stray fields and exhibiting ultrafast magnetization dynamics. The efficient method to detect an AFM order…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-25 Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Gautam Gurung , Meng Zhu , Peina Zhang , Fanxing Zheng , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Jia Zhang

We investigate magnetotransport in a ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic graphene junction where a gate electrode is attached to the normal segment. It is shown that the charge conductance can be maximal at an antiparallel configuration of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Takehito Yokoyama , Jacob Linder

Spin currents can exert spin-transfer torques on magnetic systems even in the limit of vanishingly small net magnetization, as is the case for antiferromagnets. Here, we experimentally show that a spin-transfer torque is operative in a…

Nb and its compounds are widely used in quantum computing due to their high superconducting transition temperatures and high critical fields. Devices that combine superconducting performance and spintronic non-volatility could deliver…

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are the key building blocks of high-performance spintronic devices. While conventional MTJs rely on ferromagnetic (FM) materials, employing antiferromagnetic (AFM) compounds can significantly increase…

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…

Electric control of N\'eel vector is a central task of antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics. The major scheme so far relies on the linear N\'eel torque, which however is restricted to AFMs with broken inversion symmetry. Here, we propose a…

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Antiferromagnets are promising candidates for ultrafast spintronic applications, leveraging current-induced spin-orbit torques. However, experimentally distinguishing between different switching mechanisms of the staggered magnetization…

We theoretically study the electron transport properties in a ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic tunnel junction, which is deposited on the top of a topological surface. The conductance at the parallel (\textbf{P}) configuration can be much…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-03 Jian-Hui Yuan , Yan Zhang , Jian-Jun Zhang , Ze Cheng

Altermagnets (AMs) - magnetic materials that have spin-split bandstructure with zero net spin polarization can be classified as weak or strong depending upon the strength of altermagnetic term in the Hamiltonian. We theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Shubham Ghadigaonkar , Sachchidanand Das , Abhiram Soori

Voltage-driven spin transfer torques in magnetic tunnel junctions provide an outstanding tool to design advanced spin-based devices for memory and reprogrammable logic applications. The non-linear voltage dependence of the torque has a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Manchon

Ferromagnets are known to support spin-polarized currents that control various spin-dependent transport phenomena useful for spintronics. On the contrary, fully compensated antiferromagnets are expected to support only globally spin-neutral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Ding-Fu Shao , Yuan-Yuan Jiang , Jun Ding , Shu-Hui Zhang , Zi-An Wang , Rui-Chun Xiao , Gautam Gurung , W. J. Lu , Y. P. Sun , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Altermagnets host chirally split magnons that promise unique functionalities for information processing. However, their distinctive transport signatures, crucial for experimental identification and manipulation, remain elusive. Here, we…

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