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Louis Neel pointed out in his Nobel lecture that while abundant and interesting from a theoretical viewpoint, antiferromagnets did not seem to have any applications. Indeed, the alternating directions of magnetic moments on individual atoms…

We propose a robust two-terminal electrical readout scheme for detecting the N\'eel vector orientation in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials by leveraging longitudinal nonreciprocal transport driven by quantum metric dipoles. Unlike…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-22 Guozhi Long , Hui Zeng , Mingxiang Pan , Wenhui Duan , Huaqing Huang

Electrical-controllable antiferromagnet tunnel junction is a key goal in spintronics, holding immense promise for ultra-dense and ultra-stable antiferromagnetic memory with high processing speed for modern information technology. Here, we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Lei Han , Xuming Luo , Yingqian Xu , Hua Bai , Wenxuan Zhu , Yuxiang Zhu , Guoqiang Yu , Cheng Song , Feng Pan

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics, where an AFM N\'eel vector is used as a state variable. Efficient electric control and detection of the N\'eel vector are critical for spintronic applications.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-07 Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

In antiferromagnetic spintronics, the read-out of the staggered magnetization or Neel vector is the key obstacle to harnessing the ultra-fast dynamics and stability of antiferromagnets for novel devices. Here, we demonstrate strong exchange…

In this work, we investigate the steady propagation of 180-degree domain walls (180DWs) of N\'{e}el vectors in thin antiferromagnetic strips under perpendicularly injected spin currents with various polarization orientations. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Jiaxin Du , Mei Li , Bin Xi , Xue Zhang , Yi Sun , Chun-Gui Duan , Jie Lu

Two-dimensional antiferromagnets, combining the dual advantages of van der Waals (vdW) and antiferromagnetic materials, provide an unprecedented platform for exploring emergent spin-related phenomena. However, electrical manipulation of…

We investigate the current-induced switching of the Neel order in NiO(001)/Pt heterostructures,which is manifested electrically via the spin Hall magnetoresistance. Significant reversible changes in the longitudinal and transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 X. Z. Chen , R. Zarzuela , J. Zhang , C. Song , X. F. Zhou , G. Y. Shi , F. Li , H. A. Zhou , W. J. Jiang , F. Pan , Y. Tserkovnyak

The respective unique merit of antiferromagnets and two-dimensional (2D) materials in spintronic applications inspire us to exploit 2D antiferromagnetic spintronics. However, the detection of the N\'eel vector in 2D antiferromagnets remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-03 Jizhang Wang , Hui Zeng , Wenhui Duan , Huaqing Huang

Electric field control of magnetic anisotropy in ferromagnets has been intensively pursued in spintronics to achieve efficient memory and computing devices with low energy consumption. Compared with ferromagnets, antiferromagnets hold huge…

The detection of N\'eel vector switching in a single-layer A-type antiferromagnet marks an important step toward functional two-dimensional spintronics. Here, Cr$_2$S$_3$-2D, grown on graphene on Ir(110), is established as a first…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has been receiving tremendous attention due to their ultrafast kinetics, zero stray field, immune to external magnetic field, and potential to minimizing magnetic storage devices. The optical control of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Q. Xue , J. Zhou

Spin-orbit torque enables the electrical control of the orientation of ferromagnets' or antiferromagnets' order parameter. In this work we consider antiferromagnets in which the magnetic sublattices are connected by inversion+time reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Fei Xue , Paul M. Haney

Electrical switching and readout of antiferromagnets allows to exploit the unique properties of antiferromagnetic materials in nanoscopic electronic devices. Here we report experiments on the spin-orbit torque induced electrical switching…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-25 Mareike Dunz , Tristan Matalla-Wagner , Markus Meinert

Ultrafast electric manipulation of magnetic order in solids is critical for the development of future terahertz data processing. A fascinating concept for such high-speed operation is offered in metallic antiferromagnets by N\'eel…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics driven by the advantages of antiferromagnets producing no stray fields and exhibiting ultrafast magnetization dynamics. The efficient method to detect an AFM order…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-25 Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Gautam Gurung , Meng Zhu , Peina Zhang , Fanxing Zheng , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Jia Zhang

We study current-induced switching of the N\'eel vector in CoO/Pt bilayers to understand the underlaying antiferromagnetic switching mechanism. Surprisingly, we find that for ultra-thin CoO/Pt bilayers electrical pulses along the same path…

Ferromagnets are key materials for sensing and memory applications. In contrast, antiferromagnets that represent the more common form of magnetically ordered materials, have so far found less practical application beyond their use for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 J. Železný , P. Wadley , K. Olejník. A. Hoffmann , H. Ohno

Altermagnets have recently emerged as promising materials for next-generation spintronic devices. For their device applications, realizing a single-domain configuration is essential but remains challenging. We theoretically consider…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Seungyun Han , Insu Baek , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Suik Cheon

Current pulse driven Neel vector rotation in metallic antiferromagnets is one of the most promising concepts in antiferromagnetic spintronics. We show microscopically that the Neel vector of epitaxial thin films of the prototypical compound…