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Inducing magnetic orders in a topological insulator (TI) to break its time reversal symmetry has been predicted to reveal many exotic topological quantum phenomena. The manipulation of magnetic orders in a TI layer can play a key role in…

While antiferromagnetic magnons in two-dimensional (2D) materials hold immense promise for high-frequency spintronics, achieving their efficient active control remains a critical challenge. Here, we propose a universal mechanism for the…

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Synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) consist of two ferromagnetic layers that are antiferromagnetically coupled. These systems support complex dynamical magnetic excitations, where interlayer coupling gives rise to both in-phase (acoustic) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Dirk Backes

Strained Pr$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$/La$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$/Pr$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO $_3$ trilayers were grown on (001)-SrTiO$_3$ substrates using the pulsed-laser deposition technique. The coupling at the interfaces of several…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Padhan , P. Murugavel , W. Prellier

In synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) the combination of antiferromagnetic order and synthesis using conventional sputtering techniques is combined to produce systems that are advantageous for spintronics applications. Here we present the…

We develop the theory of magnetic domain wall motion in coupled double-layer systems where electrons can hop between the layers giving rise to an antiferromagnetic coupling. We demonstrate that the force from the interlayer coupling drives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-26 Henri Saarikoski , Hiroshi Kohno , Christopher H. Marrows , Gen Tatara

We present measurements of Josephson junctions containing three magnetic layers with noncolinear magnetizations. The junctions are of the form $S/F^{\prime}/N/F/N/F^{\prime \prime}/S$, where $S$ is superconducting Nb, $F^\prime$ is either a…

Antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling in dilute magnetic semiconductor superlattices could result in the realisation of large magnetoresistance effects analogous to the giant magnetoresistance seen in metallic multilayer structures. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-29 A. D. Giddings , T. Jungwirth , B. L. Gallagher

The utilization of two-dimensional (2D) materials in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) has shown excellent performance and rich physics. As for 2D antiferromagnets, the magnetic moments in different layers respond asynchronously and can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Xiaolin Ren , Ruizi Liu , Yiyang Zhang , Yuting Liu , Xuezhao Wu , Kun Qian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Qiming Shao

Creating new interfacial magnetic states with desired functionalities is attractive for fundamental studies and spintronics applications. The emergence of interfacial magnetic phases demands the fabrication of pristine interfaces and the…

We report the first ab-initio study of the interlayer exchange coupling in Fe/c-FeSi/Fe sandwiches and Fe/c-FeSi multilayers. We perform several structural studies, which show the stability of the CsCl arrangement seen experimentally for…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Alonso Pruneda , R. Robles , S. Bouarab , J. Ferrer , A. Vega

We study a bilayer structure consisting of an antiferromagnetic insulator and a normal metal. An electron current is driven in the normal metal with direction parallel to the interface between the materials. Due to interfacial exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Eirik Erlandsen , Asle Sudbø

We explore the role of interfacial antiferromagnetic interaction in coupled soft and hard ferromagnetic layers to ascribe the complex variety of magneto-transport phenomena observed in $La_{0.7}Sr_{0.3}MnO_3/SrRuO_3$ (LSMO/SRO)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-28 Sandip Halder , Subrat K. Das , Kalpataru Pradhan

Magnetic topological insulators such as Cr-doped (Bi,Sb)2Te3 provide a platform for the realization of versatile time-reversal symmetry-breaking physics. By constructing heterostructures with N\'eel order in an antiferromagnetic CrSb and…

We observe strongly nonlinear spin dynamics in ferro-/antiferro-magnetic multilayers, controlled by the number of bilayers in the system, layer thicknesses, as well as temperature, peaking in magnitude near the N\'eel point of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 O. Busel , D. Polishchuk , A. Kravets , V. Korenivski

We study the magnon-mediated pairing between fermions on the surface of a topological insulator (TI) coupled to a ferromagnetic insulator with a tilted mean field magnetization. Tilting the magnetization towards the interfacial plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-28 Henning G. Hugdal , Asle Sudbø

Using first-principles calculations, we explore the role of an anti-ferromagnetic heavy-metal, L1$_0$-IrMn, as a capping layer in a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (\emph{p}-MTJ). A comparative study is conducted by employing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Shradha Chandrashekhar Koli , Hangyu Zhou , Jiaqi Zhou , Bertrand Dupé , Weisheng Zhao

Magnon-mediated spin transport across nonmagnetic metal (NM) and ferromagnetic insulator (FI) interface depends critically on electron-magnon coupling. We propose a novel route to enhance electron-magnon coupling dynamically from transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Gaoyang Li , Hao Jin , Yadong Wei , Jian Wang

A spin-tunnel-junction based on manganites, with La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$MnO$_3$ (LSMO) as ferromagnetic metallic electrodes and the undoped parent compound LaMnO$_3$ (LMO) as insulating barrier, is here theoretically discussed using double…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Yunoki , E. Dagotto , S. Costamagna , J. A. Riera

Antiferromagnetic coupling between ferromagnetic layers has been observed for the first time in all-semiconductor superlattice structure EuS/PbS(001), by neutron scattering and magnetization measurements. Spin-dependent superlattice band…