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N\'eel vector, the order parameter of collinear antiferromagnets, serves as a state variable in associated antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronic devices to encode information. A deterministic switching of N\'eel vector is crucial for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Shui-Sen Zhang , Zi-An Wang , Bo Li , Wen-Jian Lu , Mingliang Tian , Yu-Ping Sun , Haifeng Du , Ding-Fu Shao

Antiferromagnets are magnetically ordered materials which exhibit no net moment and thus are insensitive to magnetic fields. Antiferromagnetic spintronics aims to take advantage of this insensitivity for enhanced stability, while at the…

Antiferromagnets are promising candidates for ultrafast spintronic applications, leveraging current-induced spin-orbit torques. However, experimentally distinguishing between different switching mechanisms of the staggered magnetization…

Altermagnets, a newly discovered class of magnets, integrate the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, such as enabling anomalous transport without stray fields and supporting ultrafast spin dynamics, offering exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Xian-Peng Zhang , Run-Wu Zhang , Xiaolong Fan , Wanxiang Feng , Xiangrong Wang , Yugui Yao

Electrical manipulation of antiferromagnets with specific symmetries offers the prospect of creating novel, antiferromagnetic spintronic devices. Such devices aim to make use of the insensitivity to external magnetic fields and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Markus Meinert , Dominik Graulich , Tristan Matalla-Wagner

One of the most important challenges in antiferromagnetic spintronics is the read-out of the N\'eel vector state. High current densities up to 10$^8$ Acm$^{-2}$ used in the electrical switching experiments cause notorious difficulty in…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-29 M. J. Grzybowski , C. F. Schippers , M. E. Bal , K. Rubi , U. Zeitler , M. Foltyn , B. Koopmans , H. J. M. Swagten

Electrical manipulation of antiferromagnetic states, a cornerstone of antiferromagnetic spintronics, is a great challenge, requiring novel material platforms. Here we report the full control over antiferromagnetic states by voltage pulses…

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…

Electrical detection of the 180 deg spin reversal, which is the basis of the operation of ferromagnetic memories, is among the outstanding challenges in the research of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Analogous effects to the ferromagnetic…

Electric control of N\'eel vector is a central task of antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics. The major scheme so far relies on the linear N\'eel torque, which however is restricted to AFMs with broken inversion symmetry. Here, we propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Jin Cao , Weikang Wu , Huiying Liu , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , X. C. Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang

Non-collinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetals, combining the advantages of a zero stray field and ultrafast spin dynamics as well as a large anomalous Hall effect and the chiral anomaly of Weyl fermions, have attracted extensive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Yongcheng Deng , Xionghua Liu , Yiyuan Chen , Zongzheng Du , Nai Jiang , Chao Shen , Enze Zhang , Houzhi Zheng , Hai-Zhou Lu , Kaiyou Wang

We predict ultrafast switching in a chiral anti-ferromagnet that occurs at femtosecond times, nearly 5 orders of magnitude faster than the torque induced nanosecond switching previously observed. The physical mechanism, quite different from…

Prospective spintronic memory and logic devices will benefit from the negligible stray field and ultrafast magnetic dynamics inherent to antiferromagnets [1]. However, realizing isothermal, nonvolatile, and deterministic switching of…

Understanding the electrical manipulation of antiferromagnetic order is a crucial aspect to enable the design of antiferromagnetic devices working at THz frequency. Focusing on collinear insulating antiferromagnetic NiO/Pt thin films as a…

The field-free spin-orbit torque induced 180{\deg} reorientation of perpendicular magnetization is beneficial for the high performance magnetic memory. The antiferromagnetic material (AFM) can provide higher operation speed than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Zhengde Xu , Jie Ren , Zhengping Yuan , Yue Xin , Xue Zhang , Shuyuan Shi , Yumeng Yang , Zhifeng Zhu

The family of monolayer two-dimensional (2D) materials hosts a wide range of interesting phenomena, including superconductivity, charge density waves, topological states and ferromagnetism, but direct evidence for antiferromagnetism in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-12 Zhuoliang Ni , A. V. Haglund , H. Wang , B. Xu , C. Bernhard , D. G. Mandrus , X. Qian , E. J. Mele , C. L. Kane , Liang Wu

Due to nonrelativistic altermagnetic spin splitting effect (ASSE), altermagnets can generate time-reversal-odd spin current and spin splitting torque (SST) with spin polarization parallel to the N\'eel vector. Hence the effective…

The absence of stray fields, their insensitivity to external magnetic fields, and ultrafast dynamics make antiferromagnets promising candidates for active elements in spintronic devices. Here, we demonstrate manipulation of the N\'{e}el…

Altermagnets host chirally split magnons that promise unique functionalities for information processing. However, their distinctive transport signatures, crucial for experimental identification and manipulation, remain elusive. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Yanmeng Lei , Rui-Chun Xiao , Weiwei Lin , Tao Yu

Antiferromagnets exhibit distinctive characteristics such as ultrafast dynamics and robustness against perturbative fields, thereby attracting considerable interest in fundamental physics and technological applications. Recently, it was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Atsushi Ono , Sumio Ishihara
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