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The spin-Hall effect describes the interconversion of charge currents and spin currents, enabling highly efficient manipulation of magnetization for spintronics. Symmetry conditions generally restrict polarizations of these spin currents to…

The spin Hall effect (SHE), which converts a charge current into a transverse spin current, has long been believed to be a phenomenon induced by the spin--orbit coupling. Here, we propose an alternative mechanism to realize the intrinsic…

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Photogalvanic effect (PGE) occurring in noncentrosymmetric materials enables the generation of the open-circuit voltage that is much larger than the bandgap, making it rather attractive in solar cells. However, the magnitude of the PGE…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Juan Zhao , Yibin Hu , Yiqun Xie , Lei Zhang , Yin Wang

Altermagnets (AMs) are a recently identified class of unconventional collinear compensated antiferromagnets that exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This unconventional magnetic order gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 Bo Zhao , Fu Li , Wei Ren , Hao Wang , Hongbin Zhang

The bulk photovoltaic effect that is intimately associated with crystalline symmetry has been extensively studied in various nonmagnetic materials, especially ferroelectrics with a switchable electric polarization. In order to further…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-28 Chunmei Zhang , Ping Guo , Jian Zhou

Noncollinear antiferromagnets, such as Mn$_3$Sn and Mn$_3$Ir, were recently shown to be analogous to ferromagnets in that they have a large anomalous Hall effect. Here we show that these materials are similar to ferromagnets in another…

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Pseudospin plays a very important role in understanding various interesting physical phenomena associated with 2D materials such as graphene. It has been proposed that pseudospin is directly related to angular momentum, and it was recently…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-03 Jianlong Liu , Weimin Ye , Shuang Zhang

The electrical control of pure spin current remains a central challenge in spintronics, particularly in time-reversal symmetric systems composed of nonmagnetic elements, where spin and electric fields interact only indirectly. In this work,…

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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

Noncollinear antiferromagnets (AFMs) have recently attracted attention in the emerging field of antiferromagnetic spintronics because of their various interesting properties. Due to the noncollinear magnetic order, the localized electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Luke Wernert , Bastián Pradenas , Oleg Tchernyshyov , Hua Chen

The antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials are robust to external magnetic perturbation due to missing any net magnetic moment. In general, the spin splitting in the band structures disappears in these antiferromagnets. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 San-Dong Guo

Antiferromagnetic materials have a vanishingly small net magnetization, which generates weak dipolar fields and makes them robust against external magnetic perturbation and rapid magnetization dynamics, as dictated by the geometric mean of…

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In the realm of two-dimensional materials magnetic and transport properties of a unique representative $-$ Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$ $-$ attract ever increasing attention. Here, we use a developed first-principles method for calculating laser-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 M. Merte , F. Freimuth , T. Adamantopoulos , D. Go , T. G. Saunderson , M. Kläui , L. Plucinski , O. Gomonay , S. Blügel , Y. Mokrousov

Among antiferromagnetic materials, Mn$_2$Au is one of the most intensively studied, and it serves as a very popular platform for testing various ideas related to antiferromagnetic magnetotransport and dynamics. Since recently, this material…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-09 M. Merte , F. Freimuth , D. Go , T. Adamantopoulos , F. R. Lux , L. Plucinski , O. Gomonay , S. Blügel , Y. Mokrousov

Magnetic skyrmions are localized magnetic structures that retain their shape and stability over time, thanks to their topological nature. Recent theoretical and experimental progress has laid the groundwork for understanding magnetic…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials with zero or vanishingly small macroscopic magnetization are nowadays the constituent elements of spintronic devices. However, possibility to use them as active elements that show nontrivial controllable…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 Helen V. Gomonay , Roman Kunitsyn , Vadim M. Loktev

We theoretically show that materials with perovskite-type crystal structures provide a platform for spin current generation, taking advantage of a mechanism requiring neither the spin-orbit coupling nor a ferromagnetic moment, but is based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-10 Makoto Naka , Yukitoshi Motome , Hitoshi Seo

We report on the observation and comprehensive study of the terahertz radiation induced magneto-photogalvanic effect (MPGE) in bulk CdHgTe crystals hosting Kane fermions. The MPGE has been detected in Cd$_{x}$Hg$_{1-x}$Te films with Cd…