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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

Antiferromagnets as active elements of spintronics can be faster than their ferromagnetic counterparts and more robust to magnetic noise. Owing to the strongly exchange-coupled magnetic sublattice structure, antiferromagnetic order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Olena Gomonay , Vincent Baltz , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

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…

Antiferromagnet materials have recently gained renewed interest due to their possible use in spintronics technologies, where spin transport is the foundation of their functionalities. In that respect metallic antiferromagnets are of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-11 Saima A. Siddiqui , Joseph Sklenar , Kisung Kang , Matthew J. Gilbert , André Schleife , Nadya Mason , Axel Hoffmann

Antiferromagnetic materials are magnetic inside, however, the direction of their ordered microscopic moments alternates between individual atomic sites. The resulting zero net magnetic moment makes magnetism in antiferromagnets invisible on…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-23 T. Jungwirth , X. Marti , P. Wadley , J. Wunderlich

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

For a long time, there have been no efficient ways of controlling antiferromagnets. Quite a strong magnetic field was required to manipulate the magnetic moments because of a high molecular field and a small magnetic susceptibility. It was…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-28 Takahiro Moriyama , Kent Oda , Teruo Ono

Antiferromagnets are outstanding candidates for the next generation of spintronic applications, with great potential for downscaling and decreasing power consumption. Recently, the manipulation of bulk properties of antiferromagnets has…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 X. H. Liu , K. W. Edmonds , Z. P. Zhou , K. Y. Wang

Spintronics uses spins, the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, as an alternative for the electron charge. Its long-term goal is in the development of beyond-Moore low dissipation technology devices. Recent progress demonstrated the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-14 R. Lebrun , A. Ross , S. A. Bender , A. Qaiumzadeh , L. Baldrati , J. Cramer , A. Brataas , R. A. Duine , M. Kläui

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets have recently gained significant interest because they combine the advantages of both ferromagnets (spin polarization) and antiferromagnets (absence of net magnetization) for spintronics applications. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Soho Shim , M. Mehraeen , Joseph Sklenar , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Axel Hoffmann , Nadya Mason

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

Antiferromagnetic materials, which have drawn considerable attention recently, have fascinating features: they are robust against perturbation, produce no stray fields, and exhibit ultrafast dynamics. Discerning how to efficiently…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Cheng Song , Yunfeng You , Xianzhe Chen , Xiaofeng Zhou , Yuyan Wang , Feng Pan

The spin of the electron has been a key enabler to realize spintronics devices that harness the spin degree of freedom beyond conventional charge-based electronics. In addition to spin, electrons have another degree of freedom associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Shunsuke Fukami , Kyung-Jin Lee , Mathias Kläui

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

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Jin Cao , Weikang Wu , Huiying Liu , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , X. C. Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang

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

Ferromagnetic semiconductors play a crucial role in spintronic devices, enabling effective control of electron spin over charge. This study explores their unique properties, ongoing advancements in spin control, and potential integration…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Nazmul Hasan

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

We investigate vortex configuration in antiferromagnetic thin discs. It is shown that the vortex acquires oscillatory dynamics with well-defined amplitude and frequency which may be controlled on demand by an alternating spin polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 R. L. Silva , R. C. Silva , R. J. C. Lopes , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

Altermagnetism, a new phase of collinear spin-order sharing similarities with antiferromagnets and ferromagnets, has introduced a new guiding principle for spintronic/thermoelectric applications due to its direction-dependent magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Samuele Giuli , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Massimo Capone