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As electrical control of N\'eel order opens the door to reliable antiferromagnetic spintronic devices, understanding the microscopic mechanisms of antiferromagnetic switching is crucial. Spatially-resolved studies are necessary to…

Ferromagnets are known to support spin-polarized currents that control various spin-dependent transport phenomena useful for spintronics. On the contrary, fully compensated antiferromagnets are expected to support only globally spin-neutral…

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Electrical manipulation of spin textures inside antiferromagnets represents a new opportunity for developing spintronics with superior speed and high device density. Injecting spin currents into antiferromagnets and realizing efficient…

Intensive studies have been made on antiferromagnets as candidate materials for next generation memory bits due to their ultrafast dynamics reaching picosecond time scales. Recent demonstrations of electrical bidirectional switching of…

We demonstrate a deterministic switching mechanism in collinear altermagnets driven by asymmetric sublattice spin currents. Unlike conventional antiferromagnets, where combined parity-time-reversal symmetry enforces purely staggered…

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Spin superfluidity, a phenomenon enabling low dissipative spin transport analogous to superfluidity in liquid helium and superconductivity in electronic systems, has remained a theoretical concept. To realize the spin superfluidity in an…

The electrical switching of antiferromagnet (AFM) is very important for the development of ultrafast magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). This task becomes more difficult in antiferromagnetic oxide NiO which has complex anisotropy. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Yixiao Qiao , Zhengde Xu , Zhuo Xu , Yumeng Yang , Zhifeng Zhu

Magnetoelectric coupling is vital for exploring fundamental science and driving the development of high-density memory and energy-efficient spintronic devices. Altermagnets, which merge the benefits of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Pengqiang Dong , Hanbo Sun , Chao Wu , Ping Li

Spin-split antiferromagnets have significance for antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics due to their momentum dependent spin polarization which can be exploited for the control and detection of the AFM order parameter. Here, we explore the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-14 Himanshu Mavani , Kai Huang , Kartik Samanta , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Altermagnets (AMs) - magnetic materials that have spin-split bandstructure with zero net spin polarization can be classified as weak or strong depending upon the strength of altermagnetic term in the Hamiltonian. We theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Shubham Ghadigaonkar , Sachchidanand Das , Abhiram Soori

Spin-splitting antiferromagnets with spin-polarized band structures in momentum space have garnered intensive research attention due to their zero net magnetic moments, ultras fast spin dynamics as conventional antiferromagnets, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 Jianting Dong , Kun Wu , Meng Zhu , Fanxing Zheng , Xinlu Li , Jia Zhang

We report the direct observation of switching of the N\'eel vector of antiferromagnetic (AFM) domains in response to electrical pulses in micron-scale Pt/$\alpha$-Fe$_2$O$_3$ Hall bars using photoemission electron microscopy. Current pulses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Egecan Cogulu , Nahuel N. Statuto , Yang Cheng , Fengyuan Yang , Rajesh V. Chopdekar , Hendrik Ohldag , Andrew D. Kent

In recent years, the field of antiferromagnetic spintronics has been substantially advanced. Electric-field control is a promising approach to achieving ultra-low power spintronic devices via suppressing Joule heating. In this article,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Han Yan , Zexin Feng , Peixin Qin , Xiaorong Zhou , Huixin Guo , Xiaoning Wang , Hongyu Chen , Xin Zhang , Haojiang Wu , Chengbao Jiang , Zhiqi Liu

Electrical switching of N\'eel order in an antiferromagnetic insulator is desirable as a basis for memory applications. Unlike electrically-driven switching of ferromagnetic order via spin-orbit torques, electrical switching of…

Whether a zero-moment antiferromagnet can host an intrinsic half-metallic ground state with a single-spin Fermi surface remains an open question in antiferromagnetic spintronics. Existing proposals in compensated magnets reach only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Xin Chen , Jin Zou , Lipeng Song , Wei Sun , Yiwen Wu , Luyao Zhu , Xu Cheng , Duo Wang , Biplab Sanyal

We demonstrate that an all-antiferromagnetic tunnel junction with current perpendicular to the plane geometry can be used as an efficient spintronics device with potential high frequency operation. By using state-of-the-art density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Maria Stamenova , Razie Mohebbi , Jamileh Seyedyazdi , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

Electrical control of the non-trivial topology in Weyl antiferromagnet is of great interests to develop next-generation spintronic devices. Recent works suggest that spin Hall effect can switch the topological antiferromagnetic order.…

The bias driven perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is a magneto-electric effect that can realize 90$^\circ$ magnetization rotation and even 180$% ^\circ $ flip along the easy axis in the ferromagnets with a minimal energy consumption. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Yuriy G. Semenov , Xi-Lai Li , Ki Wook Kim

The manipulation of antiferromagnetic order by means of spin-orbit torques opens unprecedented opportunities to exploit the dynamics of antiferromagnets in spintronic devices. In this work, we investigate the current-induced switching of…

NiO is a prototypical antiferromagnet with a characteristic resonance frequency in the THz range. From atomistic spin dynamics simulations that take into account the crystallographic structure of NiO, and in particular a magnetic anisotropy…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-21 Théophile Chirac , Jean-Yves Chauleau , Pascal Thibaudeau , Olena Gomonay , Michel Viret