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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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Chang Pan , Shuai Hu , Fanli Yang , Dongchao Yang , Weijia Fan , Zhong Shi , Liqing Pan , Shiming Zhou , Xuepeng Qiu

Electric currents carrying a net spin polarization are widely used in spintronics, whereas globally spin-neutral currents are expected to play no role in spin-dependent phenomena. Here we show that, in contrast to this common expectation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Ming Li , Chang-Beom Eom , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Due to nonrelativistic altermagnetic spin splitting effect (ASSE), altermagnets can generate time-reversal-odd spin current and spin splitting torque (SST) with spin polarization parallel to the N\'eel vector. Hence the effective…

N\'eel spin-orbit torque allows a charge current pulse to efficiently manipulate the N\'eel vector in antiferromagnets, which offers a unique opportunity for ultrahigh density information storage with high speed. However, the reciprocal…

Antiferromagnets have attracted extensive interest as platforms for nanoscale spintronic devices owing to ultrafast spin dynamics and lack of a stray field. One of the crucial missing pieces in antiferromagnets is a quantum-mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Tomoyuki Yokouchi , Yuta Yamane , Yasufumi Araki , Jun'ichi Ieda , Yuki Shiomi

Using the THz emission spectroscopy, we investigate ultrafast spin-to-charge current conversion in epitaxial thin films of the altermagnetic candidate RuO$_2$. We perform a quantitative analysis of competing effects that can contribute to…

The generation of collinear spin current (CSC), where both the propagation direction and spin-polarized direction aligned perpendicularly to the applied charge current, is crucial for efficiently manipulating systems with perpendicular…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 M. Q. Dong , Zhi-Xin Guo , Xin-Gao Gong

Longitudinal spin Seebeck effect has been investigated for an uniaxial antiferromagnetic insulator Cr2O3, characterized by a spin-flop transition under magnetic field along the c-axis. We have found that temperature gradient applied normal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-06 S. Seki , T. Ideue , M. Kubota , Y. Kozuka , R. Takagi , M. Nakamura , Y. Kaneko , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-20 Yaqian Guo , Hui Liu , Oleg Janson , Ion Cosma Fulga , Jeroen van den Brink , Jorge I. Facio

Spin-rotation coupling, which is responsible for angular momentum conversion between the electron spin and rotational deformations of elastic media, is exploited for generating spin current. This method requires neither magnetic moments nor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mamoru Matsuo , Jun'ichi Ieda , Kazuya Harii , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

We achieve current-induced switching in collinear insulating antiferromagnetic CoO/Pt, with fourfold in-plane magnetic anisotropy. This is measured electrically by spin Hall magnetoresistance and confirmed by the magnetic field-induced…

The recently discovered altermagnets exhibit collinear magnetic order with zero net magnetization but with unconventional spin-polarized d/g/i-wave band structures, expanding the known paradigms of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. In…

Spatial, momentum and energy separation of electronic spins in condensed matter systems guides the development of novel devices where spin-polarized current is generated and manipulated. Recent attention on a set of previously overlooked…

The generation of time-reversal-odd spin-current in metallic altermagnets has attracted considerable interest in spintronics. However, producing pure spin-current in insulating materials remains both challenging and desirable, as insulating…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Ruizhi Dong , Ranquan Cao , Dian Tan , Ruixiang Fei

It is demonstrated theoretically that a thin layer of an anisotropic antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulator can effectively conduct spin current by excitation of a pair of evanescent AFM spin wave modes. The spin current flowing through the AFM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Roman Khymyn , Ivan Lisenkov , Vasil S. Tiberkevich , Andrei N. Slavin , Boris A. Ivanov

Antiferromagnets are magnetically ordered materials which exhibit no net moment and thus are insensitive to magnetic fields. Antiferromagnetic spintronics aims to take advantage of this insensitivity for enhanced stability, while at the…

Coherent spin oscillations were non-thermally induced by circularly polarized pulses in fully compensated antiferromagnetic NiO. This effect is attributed to an entirely new mechanism of the action, on the spins, of the effective magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-18 Takuya Satoh , Sung-Jin Cho , Ryugo Iida , Tsutomu Shimura , Kazuo Kuroda , Hiroaki Ueda , Yutaka Ueda , B. A. Ivanov , Franco Nori , Manfred Fiebig

Spin-orbit coupling enables charge currents to give rise to spin currents and vice versa, which has applications in non-volatile magnetic memories, miniature microwave oscillators, thermoelectric converters and Terahertz devices. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Angie Davidson , Vivek P. Amin , Wafa S. Aljuaid , Paul M. Haney , Xin Fan

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

Recently, unconventional antiferromagnets that enable the splitting of electronic spins have been theoretically proposed and experimentally realized, where the magnetic sublattices containing moments pointing at different directions are…