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We present a theoretical study of the interaction between an atom characterized by a degenerate ground state and a reciprocal environment, such as a semiconductor nanoparticle, without the presence of external bias. Our analysis reveals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Mário G. Silveirinha , Hugo Terças , Mauro Antezza

The magnetization dynamics of a synthetic antiferromagnet subject to a short magnetic field pulse, has been studied by using a combination of first-principles and atomistic spin dynamics simulations. We observe switching phenomena on the…

The magneto-optical effect breaks time-reversal symmetry, a unique property that makes it indispensable in nonreciprocal optics and topological photonics. Unfortunately, all natural materials have a rather weak magneto-optical response in…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-24 Lei Ying , Ming Zhou , Xiaoguang Luo , Jingfeng Liu , Zongfu Yu

It is shown that magnetic states and field-driven reorientation transitions in synthetic antiferromagnets crucially depend on contributions of higher-order anisotropies. A phenomenological macrospin model is derived to describe the magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. N. Bogdanov , U. K. Roessler

Breaking time-reversal symmetry is a prerequisite for accessing certain interesting many-body states such as fractional quantum Hall states. For polaritons, charge neutrality prevents magnetic fields from providing a direct symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Jens Koch , Andrew A. Houck , Karyn Le Hur , S. M. Girvin

In this paper we study the switching properties of the dynamics of magnetic moments, that interact with an elastic medium. To do so we construct a Hamiltonian framework, that can take into account the dynamics in phase space of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-30 Thomas Nussle , Pascal Thibaudeau , Stam Nicolis

Altermagnets are metals with a momentum-dependent spin splitting of electron bands due to a specific crystal structure that is invariant under time reversal only in combination with rotations and reflections, or lacks time reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-23 V. P. Mineev

Although several multiferroic materials/heterostructures have been extensively studied, finding strong magnetoelectric couplings for the electric field control of the magnetization remains challenging. Here, a novel interfacial…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-15 Yakui Weng , Lingfang Lin , Elbio Dagotto , Shuai Dong

Owing to their high magnon frequencies, antiferromagnets are key materials for future high-speed spintronics. Picosecond switching of antiferromagnetic order has been viewed a milestone for decades and pursued only by using ultrafast…

The current efforts to fabricate non-volatile magnetic recording media with a high areal density is deteriorated by the increasing temporal instability of the stored information. If the stored energy per magnetic particle competes with the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 P. J. Jensen

In a multi-terminal setup, when time-reversal symmetry is broken by a magnetic field, the heat flows can be managed by designing a device with programmable Boolean behavior. We show that such device can be used to implement operations like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Riccardo Bosisio , Stefano Valentini , Francesco Mazza , Giuliano Benenti , Rosario Fazio , Vittorio Giovannetti , Fabio Taddei

In this paper we introduce a theoretical model of a metallic magnetic system with noncollinear antiferromagnetic order. We introduce a mechanism of indirect interaction of conducting fermions with localized spins based on the tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Vladimir A. Zyuzin

We report on a first principles study of anti-ferromagnetic resonance (AFMR) phenomena in metallic systems [MnX (X=Ir,Pt,Pd,Rh) and FeRh] under an external electric field. We demonstrate that the AFMR linewidth can be separated into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Farzad Mahfouzi , Nicholas Kioussis

The asymmetric magnetization reversal in exchange biased Fe/MnF$_{2}$ involves coherent (Stoner-Wohlfarth) magnetization rotation into an intermediate, stable state perpendicular to the applied field. We provide here experimentally tested…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Tillmanns , S. Oertker , B. Beschoten , G. Güntherodt , C. Leighton , Ivan K. Schuller , J. Nogues

We propose a realization of the electric-field-induced antiferromagnetic resonance. We consider three-dimensional antiferromagnetic insulators with spin-orbit coupling characterized by the existence of a topological term called the $\theta$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-07 Akihiko Sekine , Takahiro Chiba

We construct time reversal invariant topological superconductors and superfluids in two and three dimensions which are analogous to the recently discovered quantum spin Hall and three-d $Z_2$ topological insulators respectively. These…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiao-Liang Qi , Taylor L. Hughes , Srinivas Raghu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Stemming from antiferromagnetic coupling, exchange bias allows inverted hysteresis in a magnetic system. Such room temperature magnetic reversal has yet to be observed in an amorphous antiferromagnet. Furthermore, the impact of this…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Xiangning Du , Yuxiang Zhu , Na Chen

We present an ultrafast route for a controlled, toggle switching of magnetic vortex cores with ultrashort unipolar magnetic field pulses. The switching process is found to be largely insensitive to extrinsic parameters, like sample size and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Hertel , S. Gliga , M. Fähnle , C. M. Schneider

Orbital angular momentum and torque transfer play central roles in a wide range of magnetic textures and devices including skyrmions and spin-torque electronics(1-4). Analogous topological structures are now also being explored in…

Experimentally observed ultrafast all-optical magnetization reversal in ferrimagnetic metals and heterostructures based on antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic $d-$ and $f-$metallic layers relies on intricate energy and angular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-02 Alexandra Kalashnikova , Veniamin Kozub