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The shortcomings of mono-component systems, e.g., the gapless nature of graphene, the lack of air-stability in phosphorene, etc. have drawn great attention toward stacked materials expected to show interesting electronic and optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Maryam Mahdavifar , Sima Shekarforoush , Farhad Khoeini

A large class of correlated quantum materials feature strong Hund's coupling. Yet cold-atom quantum simulators have so far focused primarily on single-orbital Fermi-Hubbard systems near a Mott insulator. Here we show that repulsively…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-29 Haoran Sun , Erhai Zhao , Youjin Deng , W. Vincent Liu

The $120^{\circ}$ antiferromagnetism (AFM) is widely believed as the magnetic ground state of the triangular systems because of the geometrical frustration. The emergence of novel magnetism, such as the row-wise AFM in Mn/Cu(111) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-28 Xin Gao , Cong Hu , Jian Sun , Xiao-Qun Wang , Hai-Qing Lin , Gang Li

We study the interacting Fermi-Hubbard model in two spatial dimensions with synthetic gauge coupling of the spin orbit Rashba type, at half-filling. Using real space mean field theory, we numerically determine the phase as a function of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-08 Jiří Minář , Benoît Grémaud

We report the fabrication of one-dimensional (1D) ferromagnetic edge contacts to two-dimensional (2D) graphene/h-BN heterostructures. While aiming to study spin injection/detection with 1D edge contacts, a spurious magnetoresistance signal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Bogdan Karpiak , André Dankert , Aron W. Cummings , Stephen R. Power , Stephan Roche , Saroj P. Dash

Spin spirals form inside the magnetic layers of antiferromagnetic and noncollinearly-coupled magnetic multilayers in the presence of an external magnetic field. This spin structure can be modeled to extract the direct exchange stiffness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Elliot Wadge , Afan Terko , George Lertzman-Lepofsky , Paul Omelchenko , Bret Heinrich , Manuel Rojas , Erol Girt

Topological superconductors (TSCs) in superconducting hybrid heterostructures, which integrate superconducting and non-superconducting materials, have been intensely investigated with the hope of discovering exotic non-Abelian anyons for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-14 Joseph J. Cuozzo , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Dale Huber , Wei Pan , François Léonard

We study the effect of transversal electric-field (E-field) on the electronic properties of multilayer armchair-graphene-nanoribbon (AGNR). The bandgap in multilayer-AGNRs can be reversibly modulated with the application of E-field. At…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-29 S. Bala kumar , Jing Guoa

Zigzag graphene nanoribb ons have spin-polarized edges, anti-ferromagnetically coupled in the ground state with total spin zero. Customarily, these ribbons are made ferromagnetic by producing an imbalance between the two sublattices. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 W. Jaskolski , Leonor Chico , A. Ayuela

The proximity effect in a model manganite-cuprate system is investigated theoretically. We consider a situation in which spin-polarized electrons in manganite layers antiferromagnetically couple with electrons in cuprate layers as observed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-15 Juan Salafranca , Satoshi Okamoto

We study the effect in geometrically frustrated antiferromagnets of weak, random variations in the strength of exchange interactions. Without disorder the simplest classical models for these systems have macroscopically degenerate ground…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-05-05 A. Andreanov , J. T. Chalker , T. E. Saunders , D. Sherrington

We investigate the formation and dynamics of spin textures in antiferromagnetic insulators adjacent to a heavy-metal substrate with strong spin-orbit interactions. Exchange coupling to conduction electrons engenders an effective anisotropy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Ricardo Zarzuela , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The low-temperature properties of the so-called ''charge ordered'' state in 50% doped perovskite manganites are described from the viewpoint of the magnetic spin ordering. In these systems, the zigzag antiferromagnetic ordering, combined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Solovyev

Altermagnetic (AM) materials have recently attracted significant interest due to the non-relativistic momentum-dependent spin splitting of their electronic band structure which may be useful for antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics. So far,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Kartik Samanta , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We investigate the production of spin-polarized currents in corrugated graphene nanoribbons. Such corrugations are modeled as multiple regions with Rashba spin-orbit interactions, where concave and convex curvatures are treated as Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Hernán Santos , A. Latgé , L. Brey , Leonor Chico

The field-free spin-orbit torque induced 180{\deg} reorientation of perpendicular magnetization is beneficial for the high performance magnetic memory. The antiferromagnetic material (AFM) can provide higher operation speed than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Zhengde Xu , Jie Ren , Zhengping Yuan , Yue Xin , Xue Zhang , Shuyuan Shi , Yumeng Yang , Zhifeng Zhu

We study the influence of the configuration of the majority and minority spin subbands of electron spectra on the properties of atomic-scaled superconductor-ferromagnet S-F-S and F-S-F hybrid structures. At low temperatures, the S/F/S…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Xavier Montiel , Daria Gusakova , Michel Daumens , Alexandre I. Buzdin

We present an elaborate and systematic study of the conductance properties of a zigzag bilayer graphene nanoribbon modeled by a Kane-Mele (KM) Hamiltonian. The interplay of the Rashba and the intrinsic spin-orbit couplings with the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Priyanka Sinha , Saurabh Basu

Hybrids of graphene and two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) have the potential to bring graphene spintronics to the next level. As we show here by performing first-principles calculations of graphene on monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

We propose a realization of the electric-field-induced antiferromagnetic resonance. We consider three-dimensional antiferromagnetic insulators with spin-orbit coupling characterized by the existence of a topological term called the $\theta$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-07 Akihiko Sekine , Takahiro Chiba