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A prominent feature of $d$-wave altermagnets is the pure spin current generated in the absence of spin-orbit interactions. In the context of symmetry, there are the $s$-wave, the $p$-wave, the $d$-wave, the $f$-wave, the $g$-wave and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Motohiko Ezawa

Irradiating solids with ultrashort laser pulses is known to initiate femtosecond timescale magnetization dynamics. However, sub-femtosecond spin dynamics have not yet been observed or predicted. Here, we explore ultrafast light-driven spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Ofer Neufeld , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Umberto De Giovannini , Hannes Hübener , Angel Rubio

An unpolarized charge current passing through a chaotic quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling can produce a spin polarized exit current without magnetic fields or ferromagnets. We use random matrix theory to estimate the typical spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob J. Krich , Bertrand I. Halperin

We show how the spin-transfer torque generated by an ac voltage may be used to excite a paramagnetic resonance of an atomic spin deposited on a metallic surface. This mechanism is independent of the environment of the atom and may explain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Alexey M. Shakirov , Alexey N. Rubtsov , Pedro Ribeiro

A new current induced spin-torque transfer effect has been observed in a single ferromagnetic layer without resorting to multilayers. At a specific current density of one polarity injected from a point contact, abrupt resistance changes due…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Ji , C. L. Chien

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

Spin current plays a central role in spintronics for driving exotic spin-dependent phenomena and high-performance device applications. Recently, a magnetic spin Hall effect has been discovered in spin-split antiferromagnets including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Chang Pan , Shuai Hu , Fanli Yang , Dongchao Yang , Weijia Fan , Zhong Shi , Liqing Pan , Shiming Zhou , Xuepeng Qiu

We theoretically investigate the mechanism of spin current generation induced by elastic waves in nonrelativistic magnets referred to as altermagnets. By analyzing an $f$-wave altermagnet formed by a three-sublattice noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Ken Uchino , Yuuki Ogawa , Satoru Hayami

We show that an unpolarized electric current incident perpendicular to the plane of a thin ferromagnet can excite a spin-wave instability transverse to the current direction if source and drain contacts are not symmetric. The instability,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. L. Polianski , P. W. Brouwer

We develop a theory for the second-order time-reversal-odd ($\mathcal{T}$-odd) angular-momentum current, incorporating both spin and orbital components. We reveal that besides spin and orbital Berry curvature dipoles, $\mathcal{T}$-odd…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Ruda Guo , Yi Liu , Cong Xiao , Zhe Yuan

We investigate ferroaxial magnets, a new class of spin-order-driven multiferroic magnets in which magnetic ordering induces mirror-symmetry breaking while preserving both time-reversal and spatial-inversion symmetries. These systems exhibit…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Hikaru Watanabe , Yue Yu , Jin Matsuda , Daniel F. Agterberg , Ryotaro Arita

Te is a naturally p-doped semiconductor with a chiral structure, where an electrical current causes the conduction electrons to become spin polarized parallel to the transport direction. In this paper, we present a comprehensive theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Reena Gupta , Andrea Droghetti

Momentum-dependent spin splitting and its relation to inversion ($P$) and time-reversal ($T$) symmetries are central to nonrelativistic spintronics. Representative examples include collinear altermagnets with $(P,T)=(+,-)$ and non-collinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Yue Yu

We solve appropriate drift-diffusion and Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations to demonstrate that unpolarized current flow from a non-magnet into a ferromagnet can produce a precession-type instability of the magnetization. The fundamental…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. D. Stiles , Jiang Xiao , A. Zangwill

In recent years, electrical spin injection and detection has grown into a lively area of research in the field of spintronics. Spin injection into a paramagnetic material is usually achieved by means of a ferromagnetic source, whereas the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-01 Sergio O. Valenzuela

Spin is an intrinsically quantum property, characterized by angular momentum. A change in the spin state is equivalent to a change in the angular momentum or mechanical torque. This spin-induced torque has been invoked as the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Guiti Zolfagharkhani , Alexei Gaidarzhy , Pascal Degiovanni , Stefan Kettemann , Peter Fulde , Pritiraj Mohanty

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This enables a spin-splitter effect in which an external electric field generates transverse spin currents by separating oppositely polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sanjay Sarkar , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

In this paper, current-induced spin polarization for two-dimensional electron gas with a general spin-orbit interaction is investigated. For isotropic energy spectrum, the in-plane current-induced spin polarization is found to be dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Wang , H. T. Cui , Q. Lin

We consider a quasi one-dimensional configuration consisting of two small pieces of ferromagnetic material separated by a metallic one and contacted by two metallic leads. A spin-polarized current is injected from one lead. Our goal is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 J. Peguiron , M. -S. Choi , C. Bruder

We theoretically investigate a nonlinear spin Hall effect in $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric antiferromagnetic metals, which serve as an efficient spin current generator. We elucidate that an emergent spin-dependent Berry curvature dipole is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Satoru Hayami , Megumi Yatsushiro , Hiroaki Kusunose