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Spin-orbit coupling in ferromagnets gives rise to the anomalous Hall effect and the anisotropic magnetoresistance, both of which can be used to create spin-transfer torques in a similar manner as the spin Hall effect. In this paper we show…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-19 Tomohiro Taniguchi , J. Grollier , M. D. Stiles

Using a pure electric current to control kagome noncollinear antiferromagnets is promising in information storage and processing, but a full description is still lacking, in particular, on intrinsic (i.e., no external magnetic fields or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Yiyuan Chen , Z. Z. Du , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Current induced spin-orbit torques driven by the conventional spin Hall effect are widely used to manipulate the magnetization. This approach, however, is nondeterministic and inefficient for the switching of magnets with perpendicular…

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

Current-induced control of magnetization in ferromagnets using spin-orbit torque (SOT) has drawn attention as a new mechanism for fast and energy efficient magnetic memory devices. Energy-efficient spintronic devices require a spin-current…

Magnetic heterostructures that combine large spin-orbit torque efficiency, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and low resistivity are key to develop electrically-controlled memory and logic devices. Here we report on vector measurements of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-10 Abhijit Ghosh , Kevin Garello , Can Onur Avci , Mihai Gabureac , Pietro Gambardella

Electrical switching of antiferromagnets (AFM) is critical for AFM spintronics. However, electrical pulse-induced Neel vector reorientation in AFM insulators, while predicted to occur at much faster timescales than ferromagnetic switching,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Justin J. Michel , Jose Flores , Fengyuan Yang

Spintronics has advanced through discoveries of various electrically-driven spin dynamics in nanomagnets. Here, we report a novel switching dynamics of spin systems driven by spin-orbit torque, using a noncollinear antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yuma Sato , Yutaro Takeuchi , Yuta Yamane , Shun Kanai , Shunsuke Fukami

One of the main obstacles that prevents practical applications of antiferromagnets is the difficulty of manipulating the magnetic order parameter. Recently, following the theoretical prediction [J. \v{Z}elezn\'y et al., PRL 113, 157201…

Spin-orbit torque provides an efficient pathway to manipulate the magnetic state and magnetization dynamics of magnetic materials, which is crucial for energy-efficient operation of a variety of spintronic devices such as magnetic memory,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Hang Xie , Xin Chen , Ziyan Luo , Yihong Wu

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging research field whose focus is on the electrical and optical control of the antiferromagnetic order parameter and its utility in information technology devices. An example of recently discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

We investigate spin transport by thermally excited spin waves in an antiferromagnetic insulator. Starting from a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology, we obtain the out-of-equilibrium spin-wave properties. In linear response to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Scott A. Bender , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

Spin-orbit torque manifested as an accumulated spin-polarized moment at nonmagnetic normal metal, and ferromagnet interfaces is a promising magnetization switching mechanism for spintronic devices. To fully exploit this in practice,…

Antiferromagnets are magnetically ordered materials which exhibit no net moment and thus are insensitive to magnetic fields. Antiferromagnetic spintronics aims to take advantage of this insensitivity for enhanced stability, while at the…

All-electrical and programmable manipulations of ferromagnetic bits are highly pursued for the aim of high integration and low energy consumption in modern information technology. Methods based on the spin-orbit torque switching in heavy…

Electrical manipulation of spins is essential to design state-of-the-art spintronic devices and commonly relies on the spin current injected from a second heavy-metal material. The fact that chiral antiferromagnets produce spin current…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Hang Xie , Xin Chen , Qi Zhang , Zhiqiang Mu , Xinhai Zhang , Binghai Yan , Yihong Wu

The external controllability of the magnetic properties in topological insulators would be important both for fundamental and practical interests. Here we predict the electric-field control of ferromagnetism in a thin film of insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

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…

Antiferromagnets are promising candidates for ultrafast spintronic applications, leveraging current-induced spin-orbit torques. However, experimentally distinguishing between different switching mechanisms of the staggered magnetization…

Magnetic torques generated through spin-orbit coupling promise energy-efficient spintronic devices. It is important for applications to control these torques so that they switch films with perpendicular magnetizations without an external…