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We demonstrate a deterministic switching mechanism in collinear altermagnets driven by asymmetric sublattice spin currents. Unlike conventional antiferromagnets, where combined parity-time-reversal symmetry enforces purely staggered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Sayan Sarkar , Sunit Das , Amit Agarwal

Recently, it was demonstrated that field-free switching could be achieved by combining spin-orbit torque (SOT) and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). However, this mechanism only occurs under certain conditions which have not been…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Min Wang , Zhaohao Wang , Xueying Zhang , Weisheng Zhao

It was experimentally observed that both magnetic anisotropy and spin-orbit interaction strength change when the magnetization of the nanomagnet is reversed. This indicates a variation in spin-orbit interaction strength depending on whether…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Vadym Zayets

We discuss a spin-transfer torque device, where the role of the soft ferromagnetic layer is played by a magnetic particle or a magnetic molecule, in weak tunnel contact with two spin polarized leads. We investigate if the magnetization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-19 P. Gartland , D. Davidovic

Deterministic current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) switching of magnetization in a heavy transition metal/ferromagnetic metal/oxide magnetic heterostructure with the ferromagnetic layer being perpendicularly-magnetized typically requires…

Electric field control of magnetic anisotropy in ferromagnets has been intensively pursued in spintronics to achieve efficient memory and computing devices with low energy consumption. Compared with ferromagnets, antiferromagnets hold huge…

We propose a field-free switching mechanism that utilizes two spatially orthogonal spin-orbit torque (SOT) currents. Initially applied simultaneously, one of the currents is subsequently switched off. The superposition of these two currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Dieter Suess , Claas Abert , Sebastian Zeilinger , Florian Bruckner , Sabri Koraltan

As an alternative to conventional magnetic field, the effective spin-orbit field in transition metals, derived from the Rashba field experienced by itinerant electrons confined in a spatial inversion asymmetric plane through the s-d…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 D. Wang

Enabling field-free current-induced switching of perpendicular magnetization is essential for advancing spin-orbit-torque magnetic random access memory technology. Our research on the Pt/Co/Ru/RuO2(101) system has successfully demonstrated…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Yunzhuo Wu , Tong Wu , Haoran Chen , Yongwei Cui , Hongyue Xu , Nan Jiang , Zhen Cheng , Yizheng Wu

We suggest coherent switching of canted antiferromagnetic (AFM) spins using spin-orbit torque (SOT) in small magnet. The magnetic system of orthoferrite features biaxial easy anisotropy and the Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 T. H. Kim , S. Hwang , S. Y. Hamh , S. H. Yoon , S. H. Han , B. K. Cho

Several recent experimental studies have confirmed the possibility of switching the magnetization direction in the small magnetic domains by pumping large spin-polarized currents through them. On the basis of equations proposed by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ya. B. Bazaliy , B. A. Jones , Shou-Cheng Zhang

In this work, we study magnetization switching induced by spin-orbit torque in W(Pt)/Co/NiO heterostructures with variable thickness of heavy-metal layers W and Pt, perpendicularly magnetized Co layer and an antiferromagnetic NiO layer.…

Spintronics-based nonvolatile components in neuromorphic circuits offer the possibility of realizing novel functionalities at low power. Current-controlled electrical switching of magnetization is actively researched in this context.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 A. S. Goossens , M. A. T. Leiviskä , T. Banerjee

The deterministic switching of magnetic order parameters is critically important, as it forms the fundamental basis for manipulating information states in magnetic memory devices. This work presents a general theoretical framework that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-01 Xizhi Fu , Lei Han , Xi Liu , Cheng Song , Junwei Liu

Control of magnetic order in antiferromagnets is a central challenge in the development of next-generation spintronic devices. Here, we propose and analyze magnetization switching driven by the field-derivative torque, a torque that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-22 Pratyay Mukherjee , Ritwik Mondal

We present an optimal field-free protocol for current-induced switching of a perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic insulator nanoelement on the surface of a topological insulator. The time dependence of in-plane components of the surface…

We investigate the thermally activated magnetization switching of small ferromagnetic particles driven by an external magnetic field. For low uniaxial anisotropy the spins can be expected to rotate coherently, while for sufficient large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Hinzke , U. Nowak

In this work the magnetization dynamics of clusters supported on non-magnetic substrates is shown to exhibit an unprecedented complex response when subjected to external magnetic fields. The field-driven magnetization reversal of small Co…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-13 Corina Etz , Marcio Costa , Olle Eriksson , Anders Bergman

We study the influence of the spin torque, which depends on the space and time derivative of magnetization, on magnetization reversal time in a ferromagnetic fine particle. The spin torque operates to dissipate the angular momentum of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-05 Kazushige Hyodo , Chiharu Mitsumata , Akimasa Sakuma

Direction-dependent anisotropic exchange is a common feature of magnetic systems with strong spin-orbit coupling. Here we study the effect of such exchange upon macroscopic magnetic anisotropy for a face-centered-cubic model. By several…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-29 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Leon Balents