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Exploiting both spin and charge of the electron in electronic micordevices has lead to a tremendous progress in both basic condensed-matter research and microelectronic applications, resulting in the modern field of spintronics. Current…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 X. Martí , I. Fina , T. Jungwirth

Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin under applied current, and control magnetization dynamics.…

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Application of sufficient lateral current to a heavy metal (HM) can switch the perpendicular magnetization orientation of adjacent ferromagnetic layer (FM) through spin-orbit torques (SOTs). The choice of the HM and its arrangement plays a…

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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

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

We formulate a theory of spin-transfer torques in antiferromagnets, which covers the small to large limits of the exchange coupling energy relative to the kinetic energy of the inter-sublattice electron dynamics. Our theory suggests a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Yuta Yamane , Jun'ichi Ieda , Jairo Sinova

In recent years, the field of antiferromagnetic spintronics has been substantially advanced. Electric-field control is a promising approach to achieving ultra-low power spintronic devices via suppressing Joule heating. In this article,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Han Yan , Zexin Feng , Peixin Qin , Xiaorong Zhou , Huixin Guo , Xiaoning Wang , Hongyu Chen , Xin Zhang , Haojiang Wu , Chengbao Jiang , Zhiqi Liu

Solid understanding of current induced torques is key to the development of current and voltage controlled magnetization dynamics in ultrathin magnetic heterostructures. To evaluate the size and direction of such torques, or effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Masamitsu Hayashi , Junyeon Kim , Michihiko Yamanouchi , Hideo Ohno

We investigate spin-rectification phenomena in canted antiferromagnets, closely connected to the family of altermagnetic materials. Our results show that excitation efficiency is significantly enhanced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 A. El Kanj , S. Mantion , I. Boventer , P. Bortolotti , V. Cros , A. Anane , O. Gomonay , R. Lebrun

Electrical switching of N\'eel order in an antiferromagnetic insulator is desirable as a basis for memory applications. Unlike electrically-driven switching of ferromagnetic order via spin-orbit torques, electrical switching of…

Ferromagnets are key materials for sensing and memory applications. In contrast, antiferromagnets that represent the more common form of magnetically ordered materials, have so far found less practical application beyond their use for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 J. Železný , P. Wadley , K. Olejník. A. Hoffmann , H. Ohno

Antiferromagnetic materials hold promising prospects in novel types of spintronics applications. Assessing the stability of antiferromagnetic nanostructures against thermal excitations is a crucial aspect of designing devices with a high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Levente Rózsa , Severin Selzer , Tobias Birk , Unai Atxitia , Ulrich Nowak

Control and detection of spin order in ferromagnets is the main principle allowing storing and reading of magnetic information in nowadays technology. The large class of antiferromagnets, on the other hand, is less utilized, despite its…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-23 P. Nemec , M. Fiebig , T. Kampfrath , A. V. Kimel

Electrical manipulation of spin textures inside antiferromagnets represents a new opportunity for developing spintronics with superior speed and high device density. Injecting spin currents into antiferromagnets and realizing efficient…

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…

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The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even-parity-wave) collinear compensated spin ordering, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , P. Wadley , D. Kriegner , H. Reichlova , F. Krizek , H. Ohno , L. Smejkal

Antiferromagnetic materials are magnetic inside, however, the direction of their ordered microscopic moments alternates between individual atomic sites. The resulting zero net magnetic moment makes magnetism in antiferromagnets invisible on…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-23 T. Jungwirth , X. Marti , P. Wadley , J. Wunderlich

Antiferromagnetic (AF) compounds possess distinct characteristics that render them promising candidates for advancing the application of spin degrees of freedom in computational devices. For instance, AF materials exhibit minimal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-17 A. R. Moura

We present measurements of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) by a technique that combines alternating currents (AC) and direct currents (DC). The method is applied to a ferrimagnetic insulator/heavy metal bilayer, Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$(YIG)/Pt.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yizhang Chen , Debangsu Roy , Egecan Cogulu , Houchen Chang , Mingzhong Wu , Andrew D. Kent

The interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in the superconductor/ferromagnet (SC/FM) heterostructures generates many interesting physical phenomena, including spin-triplet superconductivity, superconducting order parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Ranran Cai , Igor Žutić , Wei Han