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Ferromagnets are key materials for sensing and memory applications. In contrast, antiferromagnets that represent the more common form of magnetically ordered materials, have so far found less practical application beyond their use for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 J. Železný , P. Wadley , K. Olejník. A. Hoffmann , H. Ohno

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

We study spin-dependent electron transport through a ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic-normal metal tunneling junction subject to a voltage or temperature bias, in the absence of spin-orbit coupling. We derive microscopic formulas for various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Kei Yamamoto , Olena Gomonay , Jairo Sinova , Georg Schwiete

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

We study spin transfer torques induced by a spin-triplet supercurrent in a magnet with the superconducting proximity effect. By a perturbative approach, we show that spin-triplet correlations realize new types of torques, which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Rina Takashima , Satoshi Fujimoto , Takehito Yokoyama

Discovering alternative ways to drive domain wall (DW) dynamics is crucial for advancing spintronic applications. Here we demonstrate via atomistic spin dynamics simulations that optical torques can efficiently drive 90^{\circ} DWs in the…

We consider current-induced spin-transfer torque on an antiferromagnet in a dual spin-valve setup. It is demonstrated that a net magnetization may be induced in the AFM by partially or completely aligning the sublattice magnetizations via a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jacob Linder

We predict an unconventional spin-transfer torque (STT) acting on the magnetization of a free ferromagnetic (F) layer within N/TI/F vertical heterostructures which originates from strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the surface of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-18 Farzad Mahfouzi , Naoto Nagaosa , Branislav K. Nikolic

Assuming a Fermi liquid behavior for $s$-conduction electrons, we rewrite the extended Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation renormalized by interactions through the Landau parameters $F^{a}_{l}$ ($l=0,1,2 \cdots$) in an explicit form to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-06 H. B. Brentan , P. F. Farinas

The effect of damping-like spin-orbit torque (DL SOT) on magnetic domain walls (DWs) in in-plane magnetised soft tracks is studied analytically and with micromagnetic simulations. We find that DL SOT drives vortex DWs, whereas transverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-02 Ryuhei Kohno , João Sampaio , Stanislas Rohart , André Thiaville

Understanding and manipulating nanoscale domain wall (DW) dynamics is a central topic in magnetism and spintronics for its promising applications in logic and memory devices. In most magnetic systems, inertia affects only transient DW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 K. Y. Jing , X. R. Wang , H. Y. Yuan

Spintronics in ferromagnetic metals is built on a complementary set of phenomena in which magnetic configurations influence transport coefficients and transport currents alter magnetic configurations. In this Letter we propose that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Nunez , R. A. Duine , A. H. MacDonald

We propose a Hamiltonian dynamics formalism for the current and magnetic field driven dynamics of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic domain walls in one dimensional systems. To demonstrate the power of this formalism, we derive Hamilton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 Davi R. Rodrigues , Karin Everschor-Sitte , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Jairo Sinova , Ar. Abanov

We report quantum and semi-classical calculations of spin current and spin-transfer torque in a free-electron Stoner model for systems where the magnetization varies continuously in one dimension.Analytic results are obtained for an…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Jiang Xiao , A. Zangwill , M. D. Stiles

We theoretically study spin-transfer torque (STT) in a graphene system with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We consider a graphene-based junction where the spin-orbit coupled region is sandwiched between two ferromagnetic (F) segments. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Morteza Salehi , Razieh Beiranvand , Mohammad Alidoust

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) have great benefits for spintronic applications such as high frequencies (up to THz), high speeds (up to tens of km/s) of magnetic excitations, and field-free operation. Advanced devices will require high-speed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Roman V. Ovcharov , B. A. Ivanov , Johan Åkerman , Roman S. Khymyn

We report the direct measurement of the non-adiabatic component of the spin-torque in domain walls. Our method is independent of both the pinning of the domain wall in the wire as well as of the Gilbert damping parameter. We demonstrate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. M. Miron , P. -J. Zermatten , G. Gaudin , S. Auffret , B. Rodmacq , A. Schuhl

The standard spin-transfer torque (STT)---where spin-polarized current drives dynamics of magnetization viewed as a classical vector---requires noncollinearity between electron spins carried by the current and magnetization of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-22 Priyanka Mondal , Marko D. Petrovic , Petr Plechac , Branislav K. Nikolic

The compensated magnetic order and characteristic, terahertz frequencies of antiferromagnetic materials makes them promising candidates to develop a new class of robust, ultra-fast spintronic devices. The manipulation of antiferromagnetic…

Spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) are promising candidates for low-power spin-based electronics, yet existing realizations that rely on spin-orbit coupling are constrained by limited material choices and short spin-coherence lengths.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Ziye Zhu , Xianzhang Chen , Xunkai Duan , Zhou Cui , Jiayong Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou