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Classical nonlinear theories are highly successful in describing far-from-equilibrium dynamics of magnets, encompassing phenomena such as parametric resonance, ultrafast switching, and even chaos. However, at ultrashort length and time…

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The dynamics of fluids in which the constituent particles carry nonabelian charges can be described succinctly in terms of group-valued variables via a generalization of the co-adjoint orbit action for particles. This formalism, which is…

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Magnons, bosonic quasiparticles carrying angular momentum, can flow through insulators for information transmission with minimal power dissipation. However, it remains challenging to develop a magnon-based logic due to the lack of efficient…

Magnon band structures in altermagnets are characterized by an energy splitting of modes with opposite chirality, even in the absence of applied external fields and relativistic effects, due to an anisotropy in the Heisenberg exchange…

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We develop a non-equilibrium Green's function formalism to study magnonic spin transport through a strongly anisotropic ferromagnetic insulator contacted by metallic leads. We model the ferromagnetic insulator as a finite-sized…

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Altermagnetism has attracted considerable interest, yet its associated spintronic phenomena have so far been largely confined to electronic systems. In this work, we uncover a universal symmetry-based strategy for realizing topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Bo Yuan , Yingxi Bai , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Chengwang Niu

The magnons in antiferromagnetic insulators (AFIs) exhibit dual chirality, each carrying opposite spin angular momentum. However, in PT-symmetric AFIs, the magnon bands remain degenerate. In this work, we introduce a new class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-25 Jinyang Ni , Congzhe Yan , Peiyuan Cui , Zhijun Jiang , Yuanjun Jin , Guoqing Chang

The novel electronic state of the canted antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulator, strontium iridate (Sr2IrO4) has been well described by the spin-orbit-entangled isospin Jeff = 1/2, but the role of isospin in transport phenomena remains poorly…

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We study the effect of introducing a weak antiferromagnetic interplanar exchange coupling in the two dimensional frustrated Heisenberg model. We show that a ferromagnetic(FM) ordering of chirality - {\it i.e.}, same chirality on adjacent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 D. M. Gaitonde , Dileep P. Jatkar , Sumathi Rao

Our understanding of collective spin fluctuation in materials relies largely on Heisenberg-type spin Hamiltonians. Implicit in these spin models is the atomic moment picture that in transverse spin dynamics the magnetization around an atom…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-13 Yihao Lin , Ji Feng

When a spin-polarized current flows through a ferromagnetic (FM) metal, angular momentum is transferred to the background magnetization via spin-transfer torques. In antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, however, the corresponding problem is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu

The efficient detection of the magnetism in 2D antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulators is crucial for the advancement of 2D AFM spintronics and remains a challenging problem. In this letter, we introduce the magnon nonlinear Hall current, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Jinyang Ni , Yuanjun Jin , Guoqing Chang

Inelastic neutron scattering experiments combining time-of-flight and polarized techniques yield a comprehensive picture of the magnon dispersion in multiferroic TbMnO3 including the dynamic chirality. Taking into account only Mn3+ moments,…

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Using newly developed quantum-classical hybrid framework, we investigate interaction between spin-polarized conduction electrons and a single spin wave (SW) coherently excited within a metallic ferromagnetic nanowire. When the nanowire…

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Spin-driven multiferroics exhibit strong magnetoelectric coupling, with notable polarization changes under a magnetic field, but these effects are usually limited to high-Z magnetic insulators with low electronic polarization. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Ranquan Cao , Ruizhi Dong , Ruixiang Fei , Yugui Yao

The magnetization dynamics in nanostructures has been extensively studied in the last decades, and nanomagnetism has evolved significantly over that time, discovering new effects, developing numerous applications, and identifying promising…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-03 Mateusz Zelent , Mathieu Moalic , Olav Hellwig , Anjan Barman , Maciej Krawczyk

Magnons in antiferromagnets exhibit two chiral modes, providing an intrinsic degree of freedom for magnon-based computing architectures and spintronic devices. Electrical control of chiral splitting is crucial for applications, but remains…

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We investigate the nonequilibrium spin polarization due to a temperature gradient in antiferromagnetic insulators, which is the magnonic analogue of the inverse spin-galvanic effect of electrons. We derive a linear response theory of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Bo Li , Alexander Mook , Aldo Raeliarijaona , Alexey A. Kovalev

We discuss several aspects of chiral optomagnonics in antiferromagnetic insulators by considering common symmetries between the electromagnetic field and spin excitations. This approach allows us to look at optical and magnetic materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Igor Proskurin , Robert L. Stamps

We propose that the magnetoelectric effect in multiferroic insulators with coplanar antiferromagnetic spiral order, such as BiFeO$_{3}$, enables electrically controlled dissipationless magnonics. Applying an oscillating electric field in…

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