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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…

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We propose a quantum electronic device based on strained graphene nanoribbon. Mechanical strain, internal exchange field and spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) have been exploited as principle parameters to tune physical properties of the device.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Marcos Rafael Guassi , Ginetom Souza Diniz , Nancy Sandler , Fanyao Qu

In a nanomagnet (whose total spin S< 1000), very small polarized currents can lead to magnetic reversal. Treating on the same footing the transport and magnetic properties of a nanomagnet connected to magnetic leads via tunneling barriers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Waintal , O. Parcollet

We demonstrate deterministic control of dipole-field-stabilized skyrmions by means of spin-orbit torques arising from heavy transition-metal seed layers. Experiments are performed on amorphous Fe/Gd multilayers that are patterned into wires…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Sergio A. Montoya , Robert Tolley , Ian Gilbert , Soong-Geun Je , Mi-Young Im , Eric E. Fullerton

Magnetic skyrmions are localized chiral spin textures, which offer great promise to store and process information at the nanoscale. In the presence of asymmetric exchange interactions, their chirality, which governs their dynamics, is…

Magnetic switching of a single-molecule magnet (SMM) due to spin-polarized current is investigated theoretically. The charge transfer between the electrodes takes place via the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the SMM.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-29 Maciej Misiorny , Józef Barnas

We study topology in Quantum Chromodynamics at high temperatures by means of lattice calculations. Simulations are performed with $N_f=2+1+1$ Wilson twisted mass fermions at maximal twist with physical quark masses, and temperatures…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-08 A. Yu. Kotov , M. P. Lombardo , A. Trunin

We present an optimal field-free protocol for current-induced switching of a perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic insulator nanoelement on the surface of a topological insulator. The time dependence of in-plane components of the surface…

In this paper we consider charge current generated by maintaining a temperature difference over a nanowire at zero voltage bias. For topological insulator nanowires in a perpendicular magnetic field the current can change sign as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Jens H. Bardarson , Andrei Manolescu

Topological spin textures such as skyrmions hold high potential for use as magnetically active elements in diverse near-future applications. While skyrmions in metallic multilayers attract great attention in this context, unleashing the…

Spin current offers a promising route toward energy-efficient and high-speed information processing. Developing efficient methods for their generation remains a central challenge in spintronics. Here, we investigate spin current generation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Aoi Kajihara , Shun Okumura , Yukitoshi Motome

Spin-orbit torques (SOTs) are widely used to control magnetization in nanoscale electric systems and are typically assumed to drive skyrmion nucleation and motion in a deterministic manner, especially in materials with strong…

The discovery of magnetic skyrmion bubbles in centrosymmetric magnets has been receiving increasing interest from the research community, due to the fascinating physics of topological spin textures and its possible applications to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Zhipeng Hou , Qiang Zhang , Guizhou Xu , Senfu Zhang , Chen Gong , Bei Ding , Hang Li , Feng Xu , Yuan Yao , Enke Liu , Guangheng Wu , Xi-xiang Zhang , Wenhong Wang

Topological magnon is a vibrant research field gaining more and more attention in the past few years. Among many theoretical proposals and limited experimental studies, ferromagnetic Kagome lattice emerges as one of the most elucidating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-16 H. Zhang , X. Feng , T. Heitmann , A. I. Kolesnikov , M. B. Stone , Y. -M. Lu , X. Ke

We have studied the effects of electrical current pulses on skyrmion formation in a series of Co/Ni/Pt-based multilayers. Transmission X-ray microscopy reveals that by applying electrical current pulses of duration and current density on…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-24 Jeffrey A. Brock , Sergio A. Montoya , Mi-Young Im , Eric E. Fullerton

Voltage-driven 180$^\circ$ magnetization switching without electric current provides the possibility for revolutionizing the spintronics. We demonstrated the voltage-driven charge-mediated 180$^\circ$ magnetization switching at room…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-12 Min Yi , Hongbin Zhang , Bai-Xiang Xu

The interplay of charge and spin orders lies at the heart of correlated electron physics and plays a critical role in the emergence of unconventional quantum phases. Kagome magnets provide a particularly promising platform to investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-07 Zihao Huang , Chenchao Xu , Yande Que , Yi Liu , Ranjith Shivajirao , Zheng Jue Tong , Amit Kumar , Chao Cao , Guang-Han Cao , Hong-Jun Gao , Bent Weber

We report dynamics of skyrmion bubbles driven by spin-transfer torque in achiral ferromagnetic nanostripes using micromagnetic simulations. In a three-dimensional uniaxial ferromagnet with a quality factor that is smaller than 1, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-10 Yaodong Wu , Jialiang Jiang , Jin Tang

Skyrmions, topologically-protected nanometric spin vortices, are being investigated extensively in various magnets. Among them, many of structurally-chiral cubic magnets host the triangular-lattice skyrmion crystal (SkX) as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-19 K. Karube , J. S. White , N. Reynolds , J. L. Gavilano , H. Oike , A. Kikkawa , F. Kagawa , Y. Tokunaga , H. M. Rønnow , Y. Tokura , Y. Taguchi

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.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 A. Manchon , J. Zelezný , I. M. Miron , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Thiaville , K. Garello , P. Gambardella