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Altermagnets demonstrate significant potential in spintronics due to their unique non-relativistic spin-splitting properties, yet altermagnetic devices still face challenges in efficiently switching logic states. Here, we report…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-17 Yunfei Gao , Aolin Li , Zesen Fu , Bei Zhang , Haiming Duan , Fangping Ouyang

We demonstrate efficient current induced spin orbit torque switching in perpendicularly magnetized epitaxial MgO(001)//Pd/Co2FeAl/MgO heterostructures grown by magnetron sputtering. The advantage of such heterostructures for spin orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 M. S. Gabor , T. Petrisor , M. Nasui , M. A. Nsibi , J. Nath , I. M. Miron

In systems with strong spin-orbit coupling, the relationship between spin-transfer torque and the divergence of the spin current is generalized to a relation between spin transfer torques, total angular momentum current, and mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Paul M. Haney , M. D. Stiles

We investigated spin dependent transport through Fe/GaAs/Fe tunnel junctions. The tunneling magnetoresistance effect (TMR) was probed for different types of Fe/GaAs interfaces. For interfaces cleaned by hydrogen plasma the TMR effect is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Moser , M. Zenger , C. Gerl , D. Schuh , R. Meier , P. Chen , G. Bayreuther , W. Wegscheider , D. Weiss , C. -H. Lai , R. -T. Huang , M. Kosuth , H. Ebert

We study the properties of Dirac fermions on the surface of a topological insulator in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields. We provide an exact solution to this problem and demonstrate that, in contrast to their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Mondal , D. Sen , K. Sengupta , R. Shankar

We study theoretically the thermodynamic properties and spin dynamics of a class of magnetic rings closely related to ferric wheels, antiferromagnetic ring systems, in which one of the Fe (III) ions has been replaced by a dopant ion to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Florian Meier , Daniel Loss

Efficient and fast manipulation of antiferromagnets has to date remained a challenging task, hindering their application in spintronic devices. For ultrafast operation of such devices, it is highly desirable to be able to control the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-31 Markus Weißenhofer , Francesco Foggetti , Ulrich Nowak , Peter M. Oppeneer

For decades, semiconductors and their heterostructures have underpinned both fundamental and applied research across all areas of electronics. Two-dimensional, 2D (atomically thin) semiconductors have now the potential to push further the…

A P-N junction engineered within a Dirac cone system acts as a gate tunable angular filter based on Klein tunneling. For a 3D topological insulator with substantial bandgap, such a filter can produce a charge-to-spin conversion due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Hamed Vakili , Yunkun Xie , Samiran Ganguly , Avik W. Ghosh

Altermagnet-based heterojunctions have demonstrated magnetoresistive effects in experiments, however, a predictive theoretical model for non-ferromagnetic structures has remained elusive. In this work, we develop a tunneling-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Kun Yan , Yizhi Hu , Wei-Hua Xiao , Xiaolong Zou , Xiaobin Chen , Wenhui Duan

The recently discovered electrical-induced switching of antiferromagnetic (AF) materials that have spatial inversion asymmetry has enriched the field of spintronics immensely and opened the door for the concept of antiferromagnetic MRAM.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-10 K. A. Omari , L. X. Barton , O. Amin , R. P. Campion , A. W. Rushforth , P. Wadley , K. W. Edmonds

We introduce the general formalism to describe spin torques induced by the supercurrents injected from the adjacent superconducting electrodes into the spin-textured ferromagnets. By considering the adiabatic limit for the equal-spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-28 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

We investigate transport through a single-level quantum dot coupled to noncollinearly magnetized ferromagnets in the presence of localized spins in either the tunnel barrier or on the quantum dot. For a spin embedded in the tunnel barrier,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-24 Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König

Ferroelectric polarization switching in electrically controlled van der Waals multiferroic tunnel junctions (vdW-MFTJs) causes atomic migration, compromising device stability and fatigue resistance. Here we propose a fully magnetically…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-20 Zhi Yan , Xujin Zhang , Jianhua Xiao , Cheng Fang , Xiaohong Xu

A selfconsistent theory of the current-induced switching of magnetization using nonequilibrium Keldysh formalism is developed for a junction of two ferromagnets separated by a nonmagnetic spacer. It is shown that the spin-transfer torques…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. M. Edwards , F. Federici , J. Mathon , A. Umerski

We investigate the charge and spin transport in half-metallic ferromagnet ($F$) and superconductor ($S$) nanojunctions. We utilize a self-consistent microscopic method that can accommodate the broad range of energy scales present, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-06 Chien-Te Wu , Klaus Halterman

A microscopic calculation is presented for the spin-transfer torques (STT) and damping torques in metallic antiferromagnets (AF). It is found that the sign of the STT is opposite to that in ferromagnets because of the AF transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Jotaro J. Nakane , Hiroshi Kohno

In this work, the effect of electrical coupling on stochastic switching of two in-plane superparamagnetic tunnel junctions (SMTJs) is studied, using experimental measurements as well as simulations. The coupling mechanism relies on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Leo Schnitzspan , Mathias Kläui , Gerhard Jakob

We theoretically investigate the effective exchange interaction, $J_\mathrm{eff}$, mediated by conductive electrons within a nonmagnetic metal spacer, in the presence of a bias voltage, sandwiched by two ferromagnetic insulators. On the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 Kohei Ohgane , Yuta Yahagi , Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma

Current-driven magnetization reversal in a ferromagnetic semiconductor based (Ga,Mn)As/GaAs/(Ga,Mn)As magnetic tunnel junction is demonstrated at 30 K. Magnetoresistance measurements combined with current pulse application on a rectangular…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Chiba , Y. Sato , T. Kita , F. Matsukura , H. Ohno