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The family of monolayer two-dimensional (2D) materials hosts a wide range of interesting phenomena, including superconductivity, charge density waves, topological states and ferromagnetism, but direct evidence for antiferromagnetism in the…

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Rare-earth-ferrimagnetic oxides are emerging as attractive platforms for investigating ultrafast spin dynamics. Here, we study the photoinduced magnetization dynamics of epitaxial NiCo2O4 (NCO) thin films by time-resolved magneto-optical…

Monolayer MoS$_2$ is a direct band gap semiconductor with potential applications in optoelectronics and photonics. MoS$_2$ also has a large optical nonlinearity. However, the atomic thickness of the monolayer limits the strength of the…

We analyze the complex impact of the local magnetic spin texture on the transverse Hall-type voltage in device structures utilized to measure magnetoresistance effects. We find a highly localized and asymmetric magnetic sensitivity in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 F. Schreiber , H. Meer , C. Schmitt , R. Ramos , E. Saitoh , L. Baldrati , M. Kläui

The generation of time-reversal-odd spin-current in metallic altermagnets has attracted considerable interest in spintronics. However, producing pure spin-current in insulating materials remains both challenging and desirable, as insulating…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Ruizhi Dong , Ranquan Cao , Dian Tan , Ruixiang Fei

A spin valve is a prototype of spin-based electronic devices found on ferromagnets, in which an antiferromagnet plays a supporting role. Recent findings in antiferromagnetic spintronics show that an antiferromagnetic order in single-phase…

The motion of a N\'eel-like ${180}^{\circ}$ domain wall induced by a time-dependent staggered spin-orbit field in the layered collinear antiferromagnet Mn$_2$Au is explored. Through an effective version of the two sublattice nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-20 R. Rama-Eiroa , P. E. Roy , J. M. González , K. Y. Guslienko , J. Wunderlich , R. M. Otxoa

Ultrafast spin dynamics in a magnetically compensated rare earth iron garnet film driven by femtosecond optical pulses through the inverse Faraday effect is theoretically investigated. Numerical simulations based on the equations of motion…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 N. I. Gribova , D. O. Ignatyeva , N. A. Gusev , A. K. Zvezdin , V. I. Belotelov

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

Altermagnets have recently emerged as a new class of magnetic materials sharing properties of both antiferromagnets and ferromagnets. Despite very small net magnetization, they show phenomena usually associated with ferromagnetism, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-03 Maxim Mostovoy

Compensated ferrimagnets are promising materials for fast spintronic applications based on domain wall motion as they combine the favourable properties of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. They inherit from antiferromagnets immunity to…

We investigate magnetization dynamics of Mn$_{2}$Au/Py (Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$) thin film bilayers using broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) and Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy. Our bilayers exhibit two resonant modes with…

We show that the inverse Faraday effect can be used to engineer dipole--exchange spin-wave spectra in ferrimagnetic bismuth iron garnet (BIG) Mie spheres. Internal optical Mie resonances generate spatially structured effective magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Fedor Shuklin , Khristina Albitskaya , Alexander Chernov , Mihail Petrov

Motivated by possible spintronics applications in antiferromagnets, it was recently observed that symmetry admits magnets that combine attractive features of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. These systems, dubbed altermagnets, have…

Noncollinear antiferromagnets have promising potential to replace ferromagnets in the field of spintronics as high-density devices with ultrafast operation. To take full advantage of noncollinear antiferromagnets in spintronics…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-05 T. Hajiri , K. Matsuura , K. Sonoda , E. Tanaka , K. Ueda , H. Asano

The spin Hall effect in heavy-metal thin films is routinely employed to convert charge currents into transverse spin currents and can be used to exert torque on adjacent ferromagnets. Conversely, the inverse spin Hall effect is frequently…

Utilizing the first-principles density functional theory calculations together with group theory analyses, we systematically investigate the spin order-dependent magneto-optical effect (MOE), anomalous Hall effect (AHE), and anomalous…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-25 Xiuxian Yang , Xiaodong Zhou , Wanxiang Feng , Yugui Yao

Antiferromagnetic $\mathrm{L1_2}$-$\mathrm{Mn_3Ir}$ combines outstanding spin-transport properties with magnons in the terahertz (THz) frequency range. However, the THz radiation emitted by ultrafast spin-to-charge conversion via the…

Unconventional quantum antibunching, arising from quantum interference effects, represents a notable form of quantum correlation that has attracted significant attention for its ability to generate high-quality single-quantum sources. In…

The magnetic spin Hall effect is a time-reversal-odd phenomenon in which spin current is induced by the charge current. In the presence of a spin-orbit coupling and/or noncolinear magnetism, however, spin current is not uniquely defined.…

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