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The ability to control the directionality of surface waves by manipulating its polarization has been of great significance for applications in spintronics and polarization-based optics. Surface waves with evanescent tails are found to…

We present an approach to classical polarimetry that requires no moving parts, is compact and robust, and that encodes the complete polarization information on a single data frame, accomplished by replacing the rotation of components such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 William B. Sparks , Thomas A. Germer , Rebecca M. Sparks

The theory behind the electrical switching of antiferromagnets is premised on the existence of a well defined broken symmetry state that can be rotated to encode information. A spin glass is in many ways the antithesis of this state,…

Artificial square spin ices are structures composed of magnetic elements arranged on a geometrically frustrated lattice and located on the sites of a two-dimensional square lattice, such that there are four interacting magnetic elements at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Ezio Iacocca , Sebastian Gliga , Robert L. Stamps , Olle Heinonen

Insulating antiferromagnets are anticipated as the main protagonists of ultrafast spintronics, with their intrinsic terahertz dynamics and their abililty to transport spin information over long distances. However, direct transfer of spin…

The electrical injection of spin polarized electrons in a semiconductor can be achieved in principle by driving a current from a ferromagnetic metal, where current is known to be significantly spin polarized, into the semiconductor via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. T. Filip , B. H. Hoving , F. J. Jedema , B. J. van Wees

Artificial spin ice is a special class of engineered lattice of highly shape anisotropic single domain magnetic nanostructures which is used as one of the model systems to study the spin ice behavior observed in pyrochlore oxides. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Nimisha Arora , Pintu Das

The problem of electron resonant and non-resonant scatterings on two magnetized barriers is studied in the one-dimension. The transfer-matrix is built up to exactly calculate the coefficient of the electron transmittance through the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Armen N. Kocharian , Avag S. Sahakyan , Ruzan M. Movsesyan

Spin valves consisting of heterostructures of single-layer hexagonal crystal on an antiferromagnetic substrate or of bilayer hexagonal crystal intercalated between two (anti)ferromagnetic insulators, with the current-in-plane geometry, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Ma Luo

Optical approaches for wavefront shaping traditionally rely on phase modulation through holographic techniques. Shaping the phase determines a wave's diffraction and hence its intensity distribution in space. We instead show that shaping…

Altermagnets are a novel class of materials that combine antiferromagnetic spin ordering with non-relativistic spin splitting (NRSS) in their band structure, making them promising candidates for spintronics applications without requiring…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Niklas Sicheler , Roberto Raimondi , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Lorenzo Del Re

We investigate spin-wave modes in confined ferromagnetic resonators with spherical and cylindrical geometries across the exchange-dominated, dipole-exchange, and dipolar interaction regimes. Starting from the linearized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Fedor Shuklin , Khristina Albitskaya , Sergei Solovyov , Alexander Chernov , Mihail Petrov

Realizing novel topological states in magnonic systems unlocks robust, low-power spin-wave devices. In this letter, we show that incorporating left-handed spin waves (antimagnons) fundamentally reorganizes band topology, and enables tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Yifan Liu , Zehan Chen , Qiming Shao

Here, we investigate the physical mechanisms that may enable squeezing a complex electromagnetic field distribution through a narrow and/or partially obstructed region with little amplitude and phase distortions. Following our recent works,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Mario G. Silveirinha , Nader Engheta

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

Half-metals, featuring ideal 100\% spin polarization, are widely regarded as key materials for spintronic and quantum technologies; however, the half-metallic state is intrinsically fragile, as it relies on a delicate balance of exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 San-Dong Guo , Pan Zhou

We calculate the correction to the conductivity of a disordered ferromagnetic metal due to spin-wave-mediated electron--electron interactions. This correction is the generalization of the Altshuler-Aronov correction to spin-wave-mediated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Jeroen Danon , Alessandro Ricottone , Piet W. Brouwer

We have calculated the spin-polarization effects of a current in a two dimensional electron gas which is contacted by two ferromagnetic metals. In the purely diffusive regime, the current may indeed be spin-polarized. However, for a typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Schmidt , L. W. Molenkamp , A. T. Filip , B. J. van Wees

We show theoretically that a weakly interacting gas of spin-polarized exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity supports propagation of spin waves. The spin waves are characterised by a parabolic dispersion at small wavevectors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 M. M. Glazov , A. V. Kavokin

Gaining growing attention in spintronics is a class of magnets displaying zero net magnetization and spin-split electronic bands called altermagnets. Here, by combining density functional theory and symmetry analysis, we show that RuF$_4$…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-19 Marko Milivojević , Marko Orozović , Silvia Picozzi , Martin Gmitra , Srdjan Stavrić