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We use a combination of density functional theory and Monte Carlo calculations to calculate the surface magnetization in magnetoelectric $\mathrm{Cr_2O_3}$ at finite temperatures. Such antiferromagnets, lacking both inversion and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-19 Sophie F. Weber , Nicola A. Spaldin

We show that the surface of a centrosymmetric, collinear, compensated antiferromagnet, which hosts bulk ferroically ordered magnetic octupoles, exhibits a linear magnetoelectric effect, a net magnetization, and a net electric dipole moment.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Sayantika Bhowal , Andrea Urru , Sophie F. Weber , Nicola A. Spaldin

We use symmetry analysis and density functional theory to show that changes in magnetic order at a surface with respect to magnetic order in the bulk can be generically determined by considering local magnetoelectric responses of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-10 Sophie F. Weber , Andrea Urru , Nicola A. Spaldin

Altermagnetism (AM) and its associated spin-transport phenomena are typically linked to spin-split electronic band structures in bulk materials. However, the crystal surface has a reduced symmetry with respect to the bulk, which can induce…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-12 Valentin Leeb , Peru d'Ornellas , Fernando de Juan , Adolfo G. Grushin

Systematic approach has been applied to obtain the boundary conditions for magnetization at an interface between ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials in the continuous medium approximation. Three order parameters are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 Oksana Busel , Oksana Gorobets , Yuri Gorobets

A general formula for the average vector potential of bulk periodic systems is proposed and shown to set the boundary conditions at magnetic interfaces. For antiferromagnetic materials, the study reveals a unique relation between the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-18 Zeyu Jiang , Damien West , Shengbai Zhang

To gain insights into the fundamental and characteristic features of the surface of doped manganites, we constructed a general magnetic phase diagram of La$_{1-x}$Sr$_{x}$MnO$_3$ (001) surfaces in the plane spanned by $x$ and the bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhong Fang , Kiyoyuki Terakura

The theory of bulk orbital magnetization has been formulated both in reciprocal space based on Berry curvature and related quantities, and in real space in terms of the spatial average of a quantum mechanical local marker. Here we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Daniel Seleznev , David Vanderbilt

The unique features of ultrafast spin dynamics and the absence of macroscopic magnetization in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials provide a distinct route towards high-speed magnetic storage devices with low energy consumption and high…

We demonstrate the emergence of altermagnetism at the surfaces of antiferromagnets, vastly expanding the number of material candidates with altermagnetic characteristics and establishing a route to two-dimensional altermagnetism through…

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) exhibit intrinsic magnetization when the order parameter spatially varies. This intrinsic spin is present even at equilibrium and can be interpreted as a twisting of the homogeneous AFM into a state with a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 Erlend G. Tveten , Tristan Müller , Jacob Linder , Arne Brataas

We predict the phenomenon of antiferroelectric resonance (AFER), in which an ac electric field causes magnetic ions located at noncentrosymmetric positions in a multi-sublattice magnet to undergo magnetic transitions corresponding to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-14 V. N. Krivoruchko , D. A. Yablonskii

Nanoscale superlattices with uniaxial ferromagnetic layers antiferromagnetically coupled through non-magnetic spacers are recently used as components of magnetoresistive and recording devices. In the last years intensive experimental…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 U. K. Roessler , A. N. Bogdanov

Based on ab initio calculations we determine the features and relative stability of different models proposed to describe the $(2 \times 2)$-FeO(111) reconstruction. Our results suggest that both wurtzite and spinel-like environments are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-21 Ivan Bernal-Villamil , Silvia Gallego

Most previous investigations have shown that the surface of a ferromagnetic material may have antiferromagnetic tendencies. However, experimentally the opposite effect has been recently observed: ferromagnetism appears in some nano-sized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-08-17 Shuai Dong , Rong Yu , Seiji Yunoki , J. -M. Liu , Elbio Dagotto

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) hold promise for applications in digital logic. However, switching AFM domains is challenging, as magnetic fields do not couple to the bulk antiferromagnetic order parameter. Here we show that magnetic-field-driven…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 Sophie F. Weber , Veronika Sunko

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) are presently considered as promising materials for applications in spintronics and random access memories due to the robustness of information stored in AFM state against perturbing magnetic fields (P. Wadley et…

The electronic structural properties in the presence of constrained magnetization and a charged background are studied for a monolayer of FeSe in non-magnetic, checkerboard-, and striped-antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin configurations. First…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-12 Timur Bazhirov , Marvin L. Cohen

A number of rare-earth monopnictides have topologically non-trivial band structures together with magnetism and strong electronic correlations. In order to examine whether the antiferromagnetic (AFM) semimetal YbAs ($T\rm_N$ = 0.5 K)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-21 W. Xie , Y. Wu , F. Du , A. Wang , H. Su , Y. Chen , Z. Y. Nie , S. -K. Mo , M. Smidman , C. Cao , Y. Liu , T. Takabatake , H. Q. Yuan
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