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We present an ab initio method for eletcronic structure calculations, which accounts for the interaction of electrons and magnons in ferromagnets. While it is based on a many body perturbation theory we approximate numerically complex…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-19 S. Paischer , G. Vignale , M. I. Katsnelson , A. Ernst , P. Buczek

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

While the large paramagnetic response measured in certain ensembles of metallic nanoparticles has been assigned to orbital effects of conduction electrons, the spin-orbit coupling has been pointed out as a possible origin of the anomalously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Mauricio Gómez Viloria , Guillaume Weick , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert

The search for new materials for energy-efficient electronic devices has gained unprecedented importance. Among the various classes of magnetic materials driving this search are antiferromagnets, magnetoelectrics, and systems with…

Altermagnets recently came into the spotlight as a new class of magnetic materials, arising as a consequence of specific crystal symmetries. They are characterized by a spin-polarized electronic band structure similar to ferromagnets, but…

We perform a systematic exact diagonalization study of spin-orbit coupling effects for stationary few-electron states confined in quasi two-dimensional double quantum dots. We describe the spin-orbit-interaction induced coupling between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-17 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran

Stimulated by recent studies of quantum phases with broken local inversion symmetry, we study the magnetoelectric effect in locally noncentrosymmetric metals. We consider three-dimensional (3D) coupled zigzag chains and demonstrate that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Youichi Yanase

We clarify the macroscopic symmetry and microscopic model-parameter conditions for emergence of spin-split electronic band structure in collinear antiferromagnets without atomic spin-orbit coupling. By using the microscopic multipole…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-12 Satoru Hayami , Yuki Yanagi , Hiroaki Kusunose

Ferromagnet-ferroelectric-metal superlattices are proposed to realize the large room-temperature magnetoelectric effect. Spin dependent electron screening is the fundamental mechanism at the microscopic level. We also predict an electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-16 Tianyi Cai , Sheng Ju , Jaekwang Lee , Na Sai , Alexander A. Demkov , Qian Niu , Zhenya Li , Junren Shi , Enge Wang

We demonstrate that effects of spin-orbit coupling and inversion asymmetry exist in a single GdFeCo ferrimagnetic layer, even without a heavy metal interface. We use electric transport measurements to quantify the spin-orbit torques. We…

The search for novel magnetic quantum phases, phenomena and functional materials has been guided by relativistic magnetic-symmetry groups in coupled spin and real space from the dawn of the field in 1950s to the modern era of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

We study the physics of dilute magnetic impurities in a two-dimensional altermagnetic metal. For the single impurity case, although the spin degeneracy is broken in an altermagnetic metal, we show that the antiferromagnetic Kondo coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-10 Yu-Li Lee

Spintronics, a transformative field of research, leverages the spin of electron to revolutionize electronic devices, offering significant advantages over traditional charge-based systems. This chapter highlights the critical role of novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-03 A. Sud , A. Kumar , M. Cubukcu

We report two non-degenerate magnon modes with opposite spins or chiralities in collinearly antiferromagnetic insulators driven by symmetry-governed anisotropic exchange couplings. The consequent giant spin splitting contributes to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Qirui Cui , Bowen Zeng , Tao Yu , Hongxin Yang , Ping Cui

Emergence of novel quantum ground states in correlated electron systems with strong spin-orbit coupling has been a recent subject of intensive studies. While it has been realized that spin-orbit coupling can provide non-trivial band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-05 Robert Schaffer , Eric Kin-Ho Lee , Bohm-Jung Yang , Yong Baek Kim

The unique physical properties of altermagnets, when transplanted to photonic systems, are anticipated to offer a new degree of freedom for engineering electromagnetic waves. Here, we show that a photonic analogue of altermagnetism can be…

The relativistic spin-momentum locking has been proven in time-reversal-breaking classes of materials with zero net magnetization in the non-relativistic limit, such as altermagnets and other non-collinear magnets. Using density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-17 Xujia Gong , Amar Fakhredine , Carmine Autieri

We study the T=0 Kondo physics of a spin-1/2 impurity in a non-centrosymmetric metal with spin-orbit interaction. Within a simple variational approach we compute ground state properties of the system for an {\it arbitrary} form of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-23 L. Isaev , D. F. Agterberg , I. Vekhter

We have explored the possibility to orient spins in antiferromagnetic thin films with low magnetocrystalline anisotropy via the exchange coupling to adjacent antiferromagnetic films with high magnetocrystalline anisotropy. We have used MnO…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-12 S. I. Csiszar , M. W. Haverkort , T. Burnus , Z. Hu , A. Tanaka , H. H. Hsieh , H. -J. Lin , C. T. Chen , J. C. Cezar , N. B. Brookes , T. Hibma , L. H. Tjeng

We theoretically investigate the deflection-induced coupling of an electron spin to vibrational motion due to spin-orbit coupling in suspended carbon nanotube quantum dots. Our estimates indicate that, with current capabilities, a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 András Pályi , P. R. Struck , Mark Rudner , Karsten Flensberg , Guido Burkard