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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

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…

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…

We theoretically study the current-induced spin torque in antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions, composed of two semi-infinite antiferromagnetic layers separated by a tunnel barrier, in both clean and disordered regimes. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 H. Saidaoui , A. Manchon , X. Waintal

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics, where an AFM N\'eel vector is used as a state variable. Efficient electric control and detection of the N\'eel vector are critical for spintronic applications.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-07 Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Electric control of N\'eel vector is a central task of antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics. The major scheme so far relies on the linear N\'eel torque, which however is restricted to AFMs with broken inversion symmetry. Here, we propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Jin Cao , Weikang Wu , Huiying Liu , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , X. C. Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang

We predict a supercurrent-driven N\'eel spin-orbit torque in a superconductor/$d$-wave altermagnet heterostructure, associated with the emergence of spin-triplet correlations. The effect can be understood as a consequence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Hamed Vakili , Moaz Ali , Igor Žutić , Alexey A. Kovalev

Ferromagnets with high spin polarization are known to be valuable for spintronics--a research field that exploits the spin degree of freedom in information technologies. Recently, antiferromagnets have emerged as promising alternative…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-02 Gautam Gurung , Mohamed Elekhtiar , Qing-Qing Luo Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We develop a theory for spin transported by coherent Neel dynamics through an antiferromagnetic insulator coupled to a ferromagnetic insulator on one side and a current-carrying normal metal with strong spin-orbit coupling on the other. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 So Takei , Takahiro Moriyama , Teruo Ono , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We predict that a lateral electrical current in antiferromagnets can induce non-equilibrium N\'eel order fields, i.e. fields whose sign alternates between the spin sublattices, which can trigger ultra-fast spin-axis reorientation. Based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-25 J. Zelezny , H. Gao , K. Vyborny , J. Zemen , J. Masek , A. Manchon , J. Wunderlich , J. Sinova , T. Jungwirth

N\'eel vector, the order parameter of collinear antiferromagnets, serves as a state variable in associated antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronic devices to encode information. A deterministic switching of N\'eel vector is crucial for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Shui-Sen Zhang , Zi-An Wang , Bo Li , Wen-Jian Lu , Mingliang Tian , Yu-Ping Sun , Haifeng Du , Ding-Fu Shao

We present theoretical description of the precessional switching processes induced by simultaneous application of spin-polarized current and external magnetic field to antiferromagnetic component of the "pinned" layer. We found stability…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Helen V. Gomonay , Vadim M. Loktev

We demonstrate that an all-antiferromagnetic tunnel junction with current perpendicular to the plane geometry can be used as an efficient spintronics device with potential high frequency operation. By using state-of-the-art density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Maria Stamenova , Razie Mohebbi , Jamileh Seyedyazdi , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

In spite of the absence of a macroscopic magnetic moment, an anti-ferromagnet is spin-polarized on an atomic scale. The electric current passing through a conducting anti-ferromagnet is polarized as well, leading to spin-transfer torques…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 Yuan Xu , Shuai Wang , Ke Xia

Antiferromagnets have large potential for ultrafast coherent switching of magnetic order with minimum heat dissipation. In novel materials such as Mn$_2$Au and CuMnAs, electric rather than magnetic fields may control antiferromagnetic order…

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

We study spin-dependent electron transport through a ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic-normal metal tunneling junction subject to a voltage or temperature bias, in the absence of spin-orbit coupling. We derive microscopic formulas for various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Kei Yamamoto , Olena Gomonay , Jairo Sinova , Georg Schwiete

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics driven by the advantages of antiferromagnets producing no stray fields and exhibiting ultrafast magnetization dynamics. The efficient method to detect an AFM order…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-25 Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Gautam Gurung , Meng Zhu , Peina Zhang , Fanxing Zheng , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Jia Zhang

Antiferromagnets exhibit distinctive characteristics such as ultrafast dynamics and robustness against perturbative fields, thereby attracting considerable interest in fundamental physics and technological applications. Recently, it was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Atsushi Ono , Sumio Ishihara

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
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