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Topological non-collinear magnetic phases of matter are at the heart of many proposals for future information nanotechnology, with novel device concepts based on ultra-thin films and nanowires. Their operation requires understanding and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Flaviano José dos Santos , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Filipe Souza Mendes Guimarães , Juba Bouaziz , Samir Lounis

It was recently discovered that, depending on their symmetries, collinear antiferromagnets can actually break the spin degeneracy in momentum space, even in the absence of spin-orbit coupling. Such systems, recently dubbed altermagnets, are…

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Spin current plays a central role in spintronics for driving exotic spin-dependent phenomena and high-performance device applications. Recently, a magnetic spin Hall effect has been discovered in spin-split antiferromagnets including…

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Antiferromagnets (AFs) are prospective for next-generation high-density and high-speed spintronic applications due to their negligible stray field and ultrafast spin dynamics, notwithstanding the challenges in detecting and manipulating AF…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-04 Jinsong Xu , Weiwei Lin , Jiaming He , J. -S. Zhou , Danru Qu , Ssu-Yen Huang , C. L. Chien

In topological materials, Berry curvature leads to intrinsic Hall responses. Focusing on time-reversal symmetric systems with broken inversion symmetry, a spontaneoous (zero magnetic field) Hall effect is expected to develop under an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Shouvik Sur , Lei Chen , Yiming Wang , Chandan Setty , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

Spin waves in antiferromagnetic materials have great potential for next-generation magnonic technologies. However, their properties and their dependence on the type of ground-state antiferromagnetic structure are still open questions. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Flaviano José dos Santos , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets have recently gained significant interest because they combine the advantages of both ferromagnets (spin polarization) and antiferromagnets (absence of net magnetization) for spintronics applications. In…

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We report a detailed investigation of the magnetic order in 192 stable magnetic two-dimensional materials from the Computational 2D Materials Database having one magnetic atom in the unit cell. The calculations are based on a systematic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-09 Joachim Sødequist , Thomas Olsen

The ability to convert spin accumulation to charge currents is essential for applications in spintronics. In semiconductors, spin-to-charge conversion is typically achieved using the inverse spin Hall effect or using a large magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 E. Marcellina , A. Srinivasan , F. Nichele , P. Stano , D. A. Ritchie , I. Farrer , Dimitrie Culcer , A. R. Hamilton

The anomalous Hall effect has been indispensable in our understanding of numerous magnetic phenomena. This concerns both ferromagnetic materials, as well as diverse classes of antiferromagnets, where in addition to the anomalous and crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 J. Kipp , K. Samanta , F. R. Lux , M. Merte , J. -P. Hanke , M. Redies , F. Freimuth , S. Blügel , M. Ležaić , Y. Mokrousov

We study periodically driven insulating noncollinear stacked kagome antiferromagnets with a conventional symmetry-protected three-dimensional (3D) in-plane $120^\circ$ spin structure, with either positive or negative vector chirality. We…

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There are a variety of nonlinear optical effects including higher harmonic generations, photovoltaic effects, and nonlinear Kerr rotations. They are realized by the strong light irradiation to materials that results in nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

Spintronic devices currently rely on magnetic switching or controlled motion of domain walls by an external magnetic field or spin-polarized current. Achieving the same degree of magnetic controllability using an electric field has…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-14 Tuomas H. E. Lahtinen , Kévin J. A. Franke , Sebastiaan van Dijken

Valleytronics rooted in the valley degree of freedom is of both theoretical and technological importance as it offers additional opportunities for information storage and electronic, magnetic and optical switches. In analogy to…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-04 Wen-Yi Tong , Shi-Jing Gong , Xiangang Wan , Chun-Gang Duan

Due to their particle-like properties, three-dimensional (3D) spin textures have garnered significant interest, particularly for their potential applications in next-generation information storage devices. However, efficiently identifying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Moritz Winterott , Samir Lounis

Spintronics refers commonly to phenomena in which the spin of electrons in a solid state environment plays the determining role. In a more narrow sense spintronics is an emerging research field of electronics: spintronics devices are based…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Fabian , A. Matos-Abiague , C. Ertler , P. Stano , I. Zutic

We have shown that the study of topological aspects of the underlying geometry in a ferromagnetic spin system gives rise to an intrinsic Berry phase. This real space Berry phase arises due to the spin rotations of conducting electrons which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Basu , P. Bandyopadhyay

Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin under applied current, and control magnetization dynamics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 A. Manchon , J. Zelezný , I. M. Miron , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Thiaville , K. Garello , P. Gambardella

Piezotronics is an emerging field, which exploits strain to control the transport properties in condensed matters. At present, piezotronics research majorly focuses on insulators with tunable electric dipole by strain. Metals are excluded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xiao Rui-Chun , Shao Ding-Fu , Zhang Zhi-Qiang , Jiang Hua

Chiral magnetic textures give rise to unconventional magnetotransport phenomena such as the topological Hall effect and nonreciprocal electronic transport. While the correspondence between real-space magnetic topology/symmetry and such…