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Electric currents carrying a net spin polarization are widely used in spintronics, whereas globally spin-neutral currents are expected to play no role in spin-dependent phenomena. Here we show that, in contrast to this common expectation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Ming Li , Chang-Beom Eom , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We measure spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in a unique model system of all-epitaxial ferrite/Pt bilayers to gain insights into charge-spin interconversion in Pt. With negligible electronic conduction in the insulating ferrite, the crystalline Pt…

Relativistic current induced torques and devices utilizing antiferromagnets have been independently considered as two promising new directions in spintronics research. Here we report electrical measurements of the torques in structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 H. Reichlová , D. Kriegner , V. Holý , K. Olejník , V. Novák , M. Yamada , K. Miura , S. Ogawa , H. Takahashi , T. Jungwirth , J. Wunderlich

In the past five years, most of the paradigmatic concepts employed in spintronics have been replicated substituting ferromagnets by antiferromagnets in critical parts of the devices. The numerous research efforts directed to manipulate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-19 I. Fina , X. Marti

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) enables efficient electrical control of magnetization, offering a pathway towards low-power spintronic devices. Magnetic topological insulators (TIs), with spin-momentum-locked surface states and intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Han Tay , Zi-Jie Yan , Pu Xiao , Xiaoda Liu , Bomin Zhang , Cui-Zu Chang

The large spin orbit coupling in topological insulators results in helical spin-textured Dirac surface states that are attractive for topological spintronics. These states generate an efficient spin-orbit torque on proximal magnetic moments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yang Lv , James Kally , Delin Zhang , Joon Sue Lee , Mahdi Jamali , Nitin Samarth , Jian-Ping Wang

Efficient manipulation of magnetic materials is essential for spintronics. In spin-current generator/magnet bilayers, the efficiency of spin-orbit torques per magnetic layer thickness scales inversely with the magnetic layer thickness,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-20 Lijun Zhu , Jingwei Li , Lujun Zhu , Xinyue Xie

Spin textures such as magnetic domain walls and skyrmions have the potential to revolutionize electronic devices by encoding information bits. Although recent advancements in ferromagnetic films have led to promising device prototypes,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-18 Kang Wang , Vineetha Bheemarasetty , Gang Xiao

The ability of spintronic devices to utilize an electric current for manipulating the magnetization has resulted in large-scale developments, such as, magnetic random access memories and boosted the spintronic research area. In this regard,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Rajagopalan Ramaswamy , Jong Min Lee , Kaiming Cai , Hyunsoo Yang

We investigate vortex configuration in antiferromagnetic thin discs. It is shown that the vortex acquires oscillatory dynamics with well-defined amplitude and frequency which may be controlled on demand by an alternating spin polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 R. L. Silva , R. C. Silva , R. J. C. Lopes , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

In this work, we investigate the steady propagation of 180-degree domain walls (180DWs) of N\'{e}el vectors in thin antiferromagnetic strips under perpendicularly injected spin currents with various polarization orientations. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Jiaxin Du , Mei Li , Bin Xi , Xue Zhang , Yi Sun , Chun-Gui Duan , Jie Lu

Antiferromagnets hosting real-space topological spin textures are promising platforms to model fundamental ultrafast phenomena and explore spintronics. However, to date, they have only been fabricated epitaxially on specific…

We consider a biaxial macrospin with an easy and hard axis, and study its dynamical evolution under the combined effects of thermal noise and spin transfer torque. The spin-torque is associated with both a perpendicularly magnetized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniele Pinna , Daniel L. Stein , Andrew D. Kent

We report on a new electromagnetic phenomenon that emerges in Mott insulators, i.e., materials that do not conduct electricity because of strong electronic Coulomb repulsion. The phenomenon manifests as antiferromagnetic ordering due to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 K. A. Al-Hassanieh , C. D. Batista , G. Ortiz , L. N. Bulaevskii

The growing demand for artificial intelligence and complex computing has underscored the urgent need for advanced data storage technologies. Spin-orbit torque (SOT) has emerged as a leading candidate for high-speed, high-density magnetic…

In ferromagnetic trilayers, a spin-orbit-induced spin current can have a spin polarization of which direction is deviated from that for the spin Hall effect. Recently, magnetization switching in ferromagnetic trilayers has been proposed and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-07 Dong-Kyu Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

Researchers have recently identified a novel class of magnetism, termed "altermagnetism", which exhibits characteristics of both ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. Here, we report a groundbreaking discovery of efficient field-free…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Zhuoyi Li , Zhe Zhang , Xianyang Lu , Yongbing Xu

We demonstrate that an antiferromagnet can be employed for a highly efficient electrical manipulation of a ferromagnet. In our study we use an electrical detection technique of the ferromagnetic resonance driven by an in-plane ac-current in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 V. Tshitoyan , C. Ciccarelli , A. P. Mihai , M. Ali , A. C. Irvine , T. A. Moore , T. Jungwirth , A. J. Ferguson

Topological insulators and giant spin-orbit toque switching of nanomagnets are one of the frontier topics for the development of energy-efficient spintronic devices. Spin-circuit representations involving different materials and phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Kuntal Roy

Spin-orbit-torque (SOT) induced magnetization switching in Co/Pt/Co trilayer, with two Co layers exhibiting magnetization easy axes orthogonal to each other is investigated. Pt layer is used as a source of spin-polarized current as it is…