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We demonstrate thermally switchable chiroptical activity in a chiral spin crossover (SCO) material, where circular dichroism is significant in the low spin state but quenched in the high-spin state for both enantiomers. With magnetometry we…

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators are known for their strong spin-orbit coupling and the existence of spin-textured topological surface states which could be potentially exploited for spintronics. Here, we investigate spin…

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We consider current-induced spin-transfer torque on an antiferromagnet in a dual spin-valve setup. It is demonstrated that a net magnetization may be induced in the AFM by partially or completely aligning the sublattice magnetizations via a…

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A remarkably high saturation magnetization of ~0.4mu_B/Fe along with room temperature ferromagnetic hysteresis loop has been observed in nanoscale (4-40 nm) multiferroic BiFeO_3 which in bulk form exhibits weak magnetization (~0.02mu_B/Fe)…

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Electric control of multiferroic domains is demonstrated through polarized magnetic neutron diffraction. Cooling to the cycloidal multiferroic phase of Ni3V2O8 in an electric field (E) causes the incommensurate Bragg reflections to become…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-23 I. Cabrera , M. Kenzelmann , G. Lawes , Y. Chen , W. C. Chen , R. Erwin , T. R. Gentile , J. B. Leão , J. W. Lynn , N. Rogado , R. J. Cava , C. Broholm

We study the time-development processes of spin and charge transport phenomena in a topological Dirac semimetal attached to a ferromagnetic insulator with a precessing magnetization. Compared to conventional normal metals, topological Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 Takahiro Misawa , Kentaro Nomura

Magnon bands are known to exhibit nontrivial topology in ordered magnets under suitable conditions, engendering topological phases referred to as magnonic topological insulators. Conventional methods to drive a magnonic topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Seunghun Lee , Gyungchoon Go , Se Kwon Kim

Energy-efficient fast switching of spin orientations or textures is a core issue of spintronics, which is highly demanded but remains challenging. Different from the mainstream routes based on spin-transfer torque or spin-orbit torque, here…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-14 Zhong Shen , Jun Chen , Xiaoyan Yao , Shuai Dong

Currents can induce spin excitations in antiferromagnets, even when they are insulating. We investigate how spin transfer can cause antiferromagnetic resonance in bilayers and trilayers that consist of one antiferromagnetic insulator and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Øyvind Johansen , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas

A systematic microscopic theory of magnetically induced ferroelectricity and lattice modulation is presented for all electron configurations of Mott-insulating transition-metal oxides. Various mechanisms of polarization are identified in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Chenglong Jia , Shigeki Onoda , Naoto Nagaosa , Jung Hoon Han

Recent advances in the physics of current-driven antiferromagnetic skyrmions have observed the absence of a Magnus force. We outline the symmetry reasons for this phenomenon, and show that this cancellation will fail in the case of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Matthew W. Daniels , Weichao Yu , Ran Cheng , Jiang Xiao , Di Xiao

Multiferroic materials, characterized by the coexisting of ferroelectric polarization (breaking spatial inversion symmetry) and magnetism (breaking time-reversal symmetry), with strong magnetoelectric coupling, are highly sought after for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-14 Wei Sun , Wenxuan Wang , Changhong Yang , Ying Liu , Xiaotian Wang , Shifeng Huang , Zhenxiang Cheng

We demonstrate a modulation of up to 18% in the magnon spin transport in a magnetic insulator (Y$_{3}$Fe$_{5}$O$_{12}$, YIG) using a common ferromagnetic metal (permalloy, Py) as a magnetic control gate. A Py electrode, placed between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 K. S. Das , F. Feringa , M. Middelkamp , B. J. van Wees , I. J. Vera-Marun

Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Su-Huai Wei , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Spin pumping has significant implications for spintronics, providing a mechanism to manipulate and transport spins for information processing. Understanding and harnessing spin currents through spin pumping is critical for the development…

Electrical manipulation of magnetic order by current-induced spin torques lays the foundation for spintronics. One promising approach is encoding information in the N\'eel vector of antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, particularly to…

We report on the possibility to detect hinge spin polarization in magnetic topological insulators by resistance measurements. By implementing a three-dimensional model of magnetic topological insulators into a multi-terminal device with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Stephan Roche

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

We report a theory of thermal spin pumping into proximity magnets under a transverse-bias-driven heat flow of magnons in magnetic films when the dipolar coupling to the magnetic gate is tuned to be "chiral". While there is no rectification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Tao Yu , Chengyuan Cai , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

A device enabling mechanically-controlled spin and electric transport in mesoscopic structures is proposed. It is based on the transfer of electrons through weak links formed by suspended nanowires, on which the charge carriers experience a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 R. I. Shekhter , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony