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Currents can induce spin excitations in antiferromagnets, even when they are insulating. We investigate how spin transfer can cause antiferromagnetic resonance in bilayers and trilayers that consist of one antiferromagnetic insulator and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Øyvind Johansen , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas

We consider the current-induced dynamics of insulating antiferromagnets in a spin Hall geometry. Sufficiently large in-plane currents perpendicular to the N\'{e}el order trigger spontaneous oscillations at frequencies between the acoustic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-23 Ran Cheng , Di Xiao , Arne Brataas

We study the selective excitation at infrared and THz frequencies of optical and acoustic plasmonic modes supported by thin topological insulators. These modes are characterized by effective net charge or net spin density, respectively, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 M. Ameen Poyli , M. Hrtoň , I. A. Nechaev , A. Nikitin , P. M. Echenique , V. M. Silkin , J. Aizpurua , R. Esteban

The nonlinear dynamics of magnetization in antiferromagnets, resulting in high-frequency spin waves (high-order harmonics) as signal carriers, enable fast magnetic state switching in spintronic devices. More harmonic orders potentially…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-28 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

Controlled generation of coherent spin waves with highest possible frequencies and the shortest possible wavelengths is a cornerstone of spintronics and magnonics. Here, using the Heisenberg antiferromagnet RbMF$_3$, we demonstrate that…

A mechanism of resonant excitation of surface magnetoplasmons (SMPs) is proposed in the terahertz (THz) frequency range by {\emph{beating of two p-polarized lasers}}, obliquely incident at an angle $\theta$ on a graphene sheet deposited…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Rohit Kumar Srivastav , Mrityunjay Kundu

We study electric dipole spin resonance caused by sub-terahertz (THz) radiation in a multilevel finite-size quantum dot formed in a nanowire focusing on the range of driving electric fields amplitudes where a strong interplay between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 D. V. Khomitsky , E. A. Lavrukhina , E. Ya. Sherman

We study dynamics of antiferromagnets induced by simultaneous application of dc spin current and ac charge current, motivated by the requirement of all-electrically controlled devices in THz gap (0.1-30 THz). We show that ac electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

In the framework of phenomenological model we consider dynamics of a compensated collinear antiferromagnet (AFM) in the presence of spin-polarised current. The model is based on the assumption that AFM spins are localised and spin torque is…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-16 H. Gomonay , V. Loktev

The plasma oscillations in high-mobility field-effect transistors (HEMTs) have emerged as a key physical mechanism for manipulating electromagnetic radiation in the sub-terahertz (sub-THz) and THz frequency ranges. These collective electron…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-22 Michael Shur , Gregory Aizin

The capability of the spin-orbit torque (SOT) generated via phenomena such as the spin Hall effect in heavy metals, in switching the magnetization of an adjacent magnetic material, has been studied extensively over the last decade. The…

Terahertz electromagnetic radiation is extremely useful for numerous applications such as imaging and spectroscopy. Therefore, it is highly desirable to have an efficient table-top emitter covering the 1-to-30-THz window whilst being driven…

Perpendicularly magnetized structures that are switchable using a spin current under field-free conditions can potentially be applied in spin-orbit torque magnetic random-access memory(SOT-MRAM).Several structures have been…

By submonolayer insertion of Au, Pt, or Pd into Ta / CoFeB / MgO / Ta heterostructures we tune the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and the coercive field of the ferromagnetic layer. We demonstrate that this has a major influence on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Satya Prakash Bommanaboyena , Markus Meinert

Terahertz (THz) Spintronic emitters based on ferromagnetic/metal junctions have become an important technology for the THz range, offering powerful and ultra-large spectral bandwidths. These developments have driven recent investigations of…

Polarization control of THz light is of paramount interest for the numerous applications offered in this frequency range. Recent developments in THz spintronic emitters allow for a very efficient broadband emission, and especially unique is…

Among the most promising terahertz (THz) radiation devices, gyrotrons can generate powerful THz-wave radiation in an open resonant structure. Unfortunately, such an oscillation using high-Q axial mode has been theoretically and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-30 Zi-Chao Gao , Chao-Hai Du , Fan-Hong Li , Si-Qi Li , Pu-Kun Liu

The generation and control of spin- and valley-polarization in antiferromagnets (AFMs) have garnered increasing attention due to their potential for enabling faster and more stable multifunctional spintronic and valleytronic memory and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jiaqi Feng , Xiaodong Zhou , Jingyan Chen , Meiling Xu , Xiuxian Yang , Yinwei Li

Electrical generation of THz spin waves is theoretically explored in an antiferromangetic nanostrip via the current-induced spin-orbit torque. The analysis based on micromagnetic simulations clearly illustrates that the Neel-vector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 Xinyi Xu , Yuriy G. Semenov , Ki Wook Kim

We report on terahertz emission from a single layer ferromagnet which involves the generation of backflow nonthermal charge current from the ferromagnet/dielectric interface by femtosecond laser excitation and subsequent conversion of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Qi Zhang , Ziyan Luo , Hong Li , Yumeng Yang , Xinhai Zhang , Yihong Wu