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The nonlinearity of magnetization precession and spin waves is a cornerstone of contemporary magnonics. We investigate nonlinear magnetization dynamics in a thin epitaxial iron film driven by femtosecond laser pulses in regimes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 P. I. Gerevenkov , L. A. Shelukhin , Ia. A. Filatov , P. A. Dvortsova , A. M. Kalashnikova

Collinear antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials have unique promise of no stray fields, display ultrafast dynamics, and being robust against perturbation filed which motivates the extensive research of antiferromagnetic spintronics. However,…

Spin-torque effects in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials are of great interest due to the possible applications as high-speed spintronic devices. In the present paper we analyze the statistical properties of the current-driven AFM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Helen Gomonay , Vadim Loktev

Novel noncollinear antiferromagnets with spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking, nontrivial band topology, and unconventional transport properties have received immense research interest over the past decade due to their rich physics…

There is little doubt that the magnetization dynamics of ferromagnetic systems is governed by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation or its generalization with various spin torques. In contrast, there are several sets of dynamic equations for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 H. Y. Yuan , Qian Liu , Ke Xia , Zhe Yuan , X. R. Wang

The unique features of ultrafast spin dynamics and the absence of macroscopic magnetization in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials provide a distinct route towards high-speed magnetic storage devices with low energy consumption and high…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics driven by the advantages of antiferromagnets producing no stray fields and exhibiting ultrafast magnetization dynamics. The efficient method to detect an AFM order…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-25 Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Gautam Gurung , Meng Zhu , Peina Zhang , Fanxing Zheng , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Jia Zhang

Inversion-asymmetric antiferromagnets (AFMs) with odd-parity spin-polarization pattern have been proposed as a new venue for spintronics. These AFMs require commensurate ordering to ensure an effective time-reversal symmetry, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Changhee Lee , Nico A. Hackner , P. M. R. Brydon

A nonlinear model of spin wave excitation using a point contact in a thin ferromagnetic film is introduced. Large-amplitude magnetic solitary waves are computed, which help explain recent spin-torque experiments. Numerical simulations of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Hoefer , M. J. Ablowitz , B. Ilan , M. R. Pufall , T. J. Silva

An antiferromagnet is a promising material for spin-orbit torque generation. Earlier studies of the spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet are limited to collinear spin configurations. We calculate the spin-orbit torque in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Suik Cheon , Hyun-Woo Lee

Electrical manipulation of magnetic order by current-induced spin torques lays the foundation for spintronics. One promising approach is encoding information in the N\'eel vector of antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, particularly to…

We investigate the spin torque in the topological phase of the 3Q antiferromagnetic (AFM) configuration. We first obtain the band structure to identify the topology and nature of the different gaps of the system and then calculate the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Adel Abbout

Spin pumping converting sub-terahertz electromagnetic waves to DC spin currents has recently been demonstrated in antiferromagnets (AFMs) with easy-axis magnetic anisotropy. However, easy-plane AFMs such as NiO, which are easier to prepare…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Mingda Guo , Ran Cheng

The nonlinear dynamics of magnetization in antiferromagnets, resulting in high-frequency spin waves (high-order harmonics) as signal carriers, enable fast magnetic state switching in spintronic devices. More harmonic orders potentially…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-28 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials are widely used in spintronic devices as passive elements (for stabilization of ferromangetic layers) and as active elements (for information coding). In both cases switching between the different AFM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Helen V. Gomonay , Vadim M. Loktev

We clarify the macroscopic symmetry and microscopic model-parameter conditions for emergence of spin-split electronic band structure in collinear antiferromagnets without atomic spin-orbit coupling. By using the microscopic multipole…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-12 Satoru Hayami , Yuki Yanagi , Hiroaki Kusunose

The impulsive generation of two-magnon modes in antiferromagnets by femtosecond optical pulses, so-called femto-nanomagnons, leads to coherent longitudinal oscillations of the antiferromagnetic order parameter that cannot be described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 D. Bossini , S. Dal Conte , O. Gomonay , R. V. Pisarev , M. Borovsak , D. Mihailovic , J. Sinova , G. Cerullo , J. H. Mentink , Th. Rasing , A. V. Kimel

In ferromagnetic systems lacking inversion symmetry, an applied electric field can control the ferromagnetic order parameters through the spin-orbit torque. The prototypical example is a bilayer heterostructure composed of a ferromagnet and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-28 Fei Xue , Mark D. Stiles , Paul M. Haney

Boundary conditions for order parameters at an interface between ferromagnetic (FM) and two-sublattice antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials were obtained in the continuous medium approximation similarly to the approach which allows one to take…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Oksana Busel , Oksana Gorobets , Yuri Gorobets

Effective dynamics of conduction electrons in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials with slowly varying spin texture is developed via non-Abelian gauge theory. Quite different from the ferromagnetic (FM) case, the spin of a conduction electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu