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An experimental protocol is presented that allows the entropy generated by spin-transfer to be measured. The effect of a strong spin-polarized current injected on a ferromagnetic nanostructure is investigated with focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-05 J. -E. Wegrowe , Q. Anh Nguyen , T. L. Wade

Although the development of spintronic devices has advanced significantly over the past decade with the use of ferromagnetic materials, the extensive implementation of such devices has been limited by the notable drawbacks of these…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-04 Kang Wang , Vineetha Bheemarasetty , Junhang Duan , Shiyu Zhou , Gang Xiao

Spin-electronic devices are poised to become part of mainstream microelectronic technology .Downsizing them, however, faces the intrinsic difficulty that as ferromagnets become smaller, it becomes more difficult to stabilize their magnetic…

The torque generated by the transfer of spin angular momentum from a spin-polarized current to a nanoscale ferromagnet can switch the orientation of the nanomagnet much more efficiently than a current-generated magnetic field, and is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. -T. Cui , J. C. Sankey , C. Wang , K. V. Thadani , Z. -P. Li , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging area of quantum technologies that leverage the coupling between spin and orbital degrees of freedom in exotic materials. Spin-orbit interactions allow spin or angular momentum to be injected via…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-10 Shannon C. Haley , Eran Maniv , Tessa Cookmeyer , Susana Torres-Londono , Meera Aravinth , Joel Moore , James G. Analytis

Understanding the coherent properties of electron spins driven by electric fields is crucial for their potential application in quantum-coherent nanoscience. In this work, we address two distinct driving mechanisms in electric-field driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Jose Reina-Galvez , Matyas Nachtigall , Nicolas Lorente , Jan Martinek , Christoph Wolf

Altermagnetism is a recently identified class of magnetic order characterized by unconventional momentum-dependent spin splitting in the absence of net magnetization, and understanding its electronic and magnetic properties is essential for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Shuyi Li , Adrian Bahri , Chunjing Jia

We propose a mechanism of angular momentum conversion from optical transverse spin in surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) to conduction electron spin. Free electrons in the metal follow the transversally spinning electric field of SPP, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Daigo Oue , Mamoru Matsuo

Two channels of the sd exchange interaction are considered in magnetic junctions. The first channel describes the interaction of transversal spins with the lattice magnetization. The second one describes the interaction of longitudinal…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-22 S. G. Chigarev , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

Controlling the magnetic anisotropy of ferromagnetic materials plays a key role in magnetic switching devices and spintronic applications. Examples of spin-orbit torque devices with different magnetic anisotropy geometries (in-plane or…

Using a pure electric current to control kagome noncollinear antiferromagnets is promising in information storage and processing, but a full description is still lacking, in particular, on intrinsic (i.e., no external magnetic fields or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Yiyuan Chen , Z. Z. Du , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Thermoelectric effects in spintronics are gathering increasing attention as a means of managing heat in nanoscale structures and of controlling spin information by using heat flow. Thermal magnons (spin-wave quanta) are expected to play a…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-27 Marius V. Costache , German Bridoux , Ingmar Neumann , Sergio O. Valenzuela

An attractive feature of magnetic adatoms and molecules for nanoscale applications is their superparamagnetism, the preferred alignment of their spin along an easy axis preventing undesired spin reversal. The underlying magnetic anisotropy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Maciej Misiorny , Michael Hell , Maarten R. Wegewijs

Exact calculated time evolutions in the framework of a many-electron model of itinerant magnetism provide new insights into the laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization observed in ferromagnetic (FM) transition metal thin films. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-25 W. Töws , G. M. Pastor

In recent years, electrical spin injection and detection has grown into a lively area of research in the field of spintronics. Spin injection into a paramagnetic material is usually achieved by means of a ferromagnetic source, whereas the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-01 Sergio O. Valenzuela

The transport properties of interacting electrons for which the spin degree of freedom is taken into account are numerically studied for small two dimensional diffusive clusters. On-site electron-electron interactions tend to delocalize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard Berkovits , Jan W. Kantelhardt

It has recently been predicted that certain magnetic materials contain mobile magnetic charges or `monopoles'. Here we address the question of whether these magnetic charges and their associated currents (`magnetricity') can be directly…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-12 S. T. Bramwell , S. R. Giblin , S. Calder , R. Aldus , D. Prabhakaran , T. Fennell

While early magnetic memory designs relied on magnetization switching by locally generated magnetic fields, key insights in condensed matter physics later suggested the possibility to do it electrically. In the 1990s, Slonczewzki and Berger…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Albert Fert , Ramamoorthy Ramesh , Vincent Garcia , Fèlix Casanova , Manuel Bibes

We report on experiments demonstrating coherent control of magnon spin transport and pseudospin dynamics in a thin film of the antiferromagnetic insulator hematite utilizing two Pt strips for all-electrical magnon injection and detection.…

This article explores the deep interconnections among three seemingly unrelated concepts in condensed matter physics: electronic liquid crystal phases, multipole expansions, and altermagnetism. At the heart of these phenomena lies a shared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-13 Zhao Liu , Hui Hu , Xia-Ji Liu