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Non-collinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetals, combining the advantages of a zero stray field and ultrafast spin dynamics as well as a large anomalous Hall effect and the chiral anomaly of Weyl fermions, have attracted extensive…

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The growing demand for artificial intelligence and complex computing has underscored the urgent need for advanced data storage technologies. Spin-orbit torque (SOT) has emerged as a leading candidate for high-speed, high-density magnetic…

Contrary to conventional wisdom that spin dynamics induced by current are exclusive to metallic magnets, we theoretically predict that such phenomena can also be realized in magnetic insulators, specifically in the magnetoelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 R. M. Dubrovin , Z. V. Gareeva , A. V. Kimel , A. K. Zvezdin

The coexistence of topological magnons and electrons in magnetic materials presents a compelling route toward developing low-dissipation, multifunctional spintronic devices. However, material systems enabling their simultaneous realization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Haozhou Cai , Zhiming Xu , Jian Wu , Weiyi Pan

A fundamental question concerns how topological electronic states are influenced by many-body correlations, and magnetic Weyl semimetals represent an important material platform to address this problem. However, the magnetic structures…

Magnetoresistance (MR) provides a crucial tool for experimentally studying spin torques. While MR is well established in the device geometry of the spin Hall effect (SHE), as exemplified by the magnet/heavy-metal heterostructures, its role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

Thanks to its unique symmetry, the unidirectional spin Hall and Rashba-Edelstein magnetoresistance (USRMR) is of great fundamental and practical interest, particularly in the context of reading magnetization states in two-terminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Yang Lv , James Kally , Tao Liu , Protyush Sahu , Mingzhong Wu , Nitin Samarth , Jian-Ping Wang

Magnon torques, which can operate without involving moving electrons, could circumvent the Joule heating issue. In conventional magnon torque systems, the spin source layer with strong spin-orbit coupling is utilized to inject magnons, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 Yuchen Pu , Guoyi Shi , Hua Bai , Xinhou Chen , Chenhui Zhang , Zhaohui Li , Mehrdad Elyasi , Hyunsoo Yang

We report experimental signatures of topological transitions among the Weyl semimetal states of pyrochlore Pr2Ir2O7, where the Kondo coupling between the Ir topological electrons and the spin-ice like orders of Pr moments plays a decisive…

Topological quantum materials (TQMs) possess abundant and attractive spin physics, and a Weyl semimetal is the representative material because of the generation of spin polarization that is available for spin devices due to fictitious Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Kosuke Ohnishi , Motomi Aoki , Ryo Ohshima , Ei Shigematsu , Yuichiro Ando , Taishi Takenobu , Masashi Shiraishi

Insulating states can be topologically nontrivial, a well-established notion that is exemplified by the quantum Hall effect and topological insulators. By contrast, topological metals have not been experimentally evidenced until recently.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-09 Hsin-Hua Lai , Sarah E. Grefe , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

Topological materials have drawn increasing attention owing to their rich quantum properties, as highlighted by a large intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in Weyl and nodal-line semimetals. However, the practical applications for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-24 Alex Hiro Mayo , Hidefumi Takahashi , Mohammad Saeed Bahramy , Atsuro Nomoto , Hideaki Sakai , Shintaro Ishiwata

We consider the minimal coupling of a thin film Dirac semimetal Hamiltonian to a generic spin-texture. A simple unitary transformation gauges away the spatial dependence in the exchange term, leading to the generation of effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Pritam Chatterjee , Anirudha Menon

Topological materials have attracted considerable experimental and theoretical attention. They exhibit strong spin-orbit coupling both in the band structure (intrinsic) and in the impurity potentials (extrinsic), although the latter is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-17 Weizhe Edward Liu , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz , Dimitrie Culcer

Reducing energy dissipation while increasing speed in computation and memory is a long-standing challenge for spintronics research. In the last 20 years, femtosecond lasers have emerged as a tool to control the magnetization in specific…

Current-induced magnetization switching through spin-orbit torques (SOTs) is the fundamental building block of spin-orbitronics. The SOTs generally arise from the spin-orbit coupling of heavy metals. However, even in a heterostructure where…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-22 Hongyu An , Takeo Ohno , Yusuke Kanno , Yuito Kageyama , Yasuaki Monnai , Hideyuki Maki , Ji Shi , Kazuya Ando

Weyl semimetal may be thought of as a gapless topological phase protected by the chiral anomaly, where the symmetries involved in the anomaly are the $U(1)$ charge conservation and the crystal translational symmetry. The absence of a band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-09 Chong Wang , L. Gioia , A. A. Burkov

Spin field effect transistors (SpinFET) are an iconic class of spintronic devices that exploit gate tuned spin-orbit interaction in semiconductor channels interposed between ferromagnetic source and drain contacts to elicit transistor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Rahnuma Rahman , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

The electrical manipulation of magnetization by current-induced spin torques has given access to realize a plethora of ultralow power and fast spintronic devices such as non-volatile magnetic memories, spin-torque nano-oscillators, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-21 Yuya Tazaki , Yuito Kageyama , Hiroki Hayashi , Takashi Harumoto , Tenghua Gao , Ji Shi , Kazuya Ando

Electrons in materials with linear dispersion behave as massless Weyl- or Dirac-quasiparticles, and continue to intrigue physicists due to their close resemblance to elusive ultra-relativistic particles as well as their potential for future…