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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 investigate spin dynamics in the antiferromagnetic (AFM) multiferroic TbMnO3 using optical- pump, terahertz (THz)-probe spectroscopy. Photoexcitation results in a broadband THz transmission change, with an onset time of 25 ps at 6 K that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-21 P. Bowlan , S. A. Trugman , X. Wang , Y. M. Dai , S. -W. Cheong , E. D. Bauer , A. J. Taylor , D. A. Yarotski , R. P. Prasankumar

Harnessing the unique properties of non-collinear antiferromagnets (AFMs) will be essential for exploiting the full potential of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Indeed, many of the effects enabling ferromagnetic spintronic devices have a…

The N\'eel order of an antiferromagnet subject to a spin torque can undergo precession in a circular orbit about any chosen axis. To orient and stabilize the motion against the effects of magnetic anisotropy, the spin polarization should…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Arun Parthasarathy , Egecan Cogulu , Andrew D. Kent , Shaloo Rakheja

Electric control of N\'eel vector is a central task of antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics. The major scheme so far relies on the linear N\'eel torque, which however is restricted to AFMs with broken inversion symmetry. Here, we propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Jin Cao , Weikang Wu , Huiying Liu , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , X. C. Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang

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

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Ankit Shukla , Siyuan Qian , Shaloo Rakheja

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials possess a well-recognized potential for ultrafast data processing thanks to their intrinsic ultrafast spin dynamics, absence of stray fields, and large spin transport effects. The very same properties,…

We describe the dynamics of an antiferromagnetic nano-oscillator in an external magnetic field of any given time distribution. The oscillator is powered by a spin current originating from spin-orbit effects in a neighboring heavy metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Jakub Chęciński , Marek Frankowski , Tomasz Stobiecki

In 3d-electron magnetic systems, the magnetic structures that transform each other by spin rotation have very close degenerate energies due to small spin-orbit coupling and can be easily controlled by chemical substitution and external…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-20 Vu Thi Ngoc Huyen , Yuki Yanagi , Michi-To Suzuki

The effect of spin currents on the magnetic order of insulating antiferromagnets (AFMs) is of fundamental interest and can enable new applications. Toward this goal, characterizing the spin-orbit torques (SOT) associated with AFM/heavy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Egecan Cogulu , Hantao Zhang , Nahuel N. Statuto , Yang Cheng , Fengyuan Yang , Ran Cheng , Andrew D. Kent

By combining two independent approaches, inelastic neutron scattering measurements and density functional theory calculations, we study the spin-waves in the high-temperature collinear antiferromagnetic phase (AFM2) of Mn$_5$Si$_3$. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 F. J. dos Santos , N. Biniskos , S. Raymond , K. Schmalzl , M. dos Santos Dias , P. Steffens , J. Persson , S. Blügel , S. Lounis , T. Brückel

We report on the nonlinear magnetization dynamics of a HoFeO3 crystal induced by a strong terahertz magnetic field resonantly enhanced with a split ring resonator and measured with magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy. The terahertz…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-26 Y Mukai , H Hirori , T Yamamoto , H Kageyama , K Tanaka

Terahertz emission spectroscopy (TES) has recently played an important role in unveiling the spin dynamics at a terahertz (THz) frequency range. So far, ferromagnetic (FM)/nonmagnetic (NM) heterostructures have been intensively studied as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Mengji Chen , Rahul Mishra , Yang Wu , Kyusup Lee , Hyunsoo Yang

Laser-induced ultrafast (fs) magnetization experiments in antiferromagnets have recently attracted large attention, paving the road for inherently fast spin dynamics in the THz regime without invoking stray fields. The technical importance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-13 Malte Behrmann , Frank Lechermann

The electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy was employed to investigate the spin dynamics in triangular lattice antiferromagnets CuCr$_{1-x}$Mg$_{x}$O$_2$ with $x =$ 0 and 0.02. All spectra can be well fitted by a single Lorentzian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-16 Renwen Li , Zhe Qu , Wei Tong , Yuheng Zhang

Monte Carlo simulations have been used to study magnetic ordering in coupled anisotropic ferro/antiferromagnetic (FM/AFM) films of classical Heisenberg spins. We consider films with flat interfaces that are fully uncompensated as well as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shan-Ho Tsai , D. P. Landau , Thomas C. Schulthess

Non-damped oscillations of the magnetization vector of a ferromagnetic system subject to a spin polarized current and an external magnetic field are studied theoretically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. It is shown that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Gorley , P. P. Horley , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , V. R. Vieira

Antiferromagnets and compensated ferrimagnets offer opportunities to investigate spin dynamics in the 'terahertz gap' because their resonance modes lie in the 0.3 THz to 3 THz range. Despite some inherent advantages when compared to…

Interplay between magnetic ordering and topological electrons not only enables new topological phases but also underpins electrical control of magnetism. Here we extend the Kane-Mele model to include the exchange coupling to a collinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Junyu Tang , Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng