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Magnetoresistance (MR) provides a crucial tool for experimentally studying spin torques. While MR is well established in the device geometry of the spin Hall effect (SHE), as exemplified by the magnet/heavy-metal heterostructures, its role…
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The extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) observed in many topologically nontrivial and trivial semimetals has attracted much attention in relation to its underlying physical mechanism. In this paper, by combining the band structure and…
Antiferromagnetic materials promise improved performance for spintronic applications, as they are robust against external magnetic field perturbations and allow for faster magnetization dynamics compared to ferromagnets. The direct…
Using $\phi^4$ field theory and Monte Carlo (MC) simulation we investigate the finite-size effects of the magnetization $M$ for the three-dimensional Ising model in a finite cubic geometry with periodic boundary conditions. The field theory…
One of the most important properties of soft functionalized magnetic composite materials in view of their technological potential is given by the magnetorheological effect. It describes the change in rheological properties such as the shear…
We analyze the magnetostriction effect occurring in the magneto-sensitive elastomers (MSEs) containing inhomogeneously magnetized particles. As it was shown before, the expression for the interaction potential between two magnetic spheres,…
We develop a magneto-elastic (ME) coupling model for the interaction between the vortex lattice and crystal elasticity. The theory extends the Kogan-Clem's anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau (GL) model to include the elasticity effect. The…
Shell buckling is central in many biological structures and advanced functional materials, even if, traditionally, this elastic instability has been regarded as a catastrophic phenomenon to be avoided for engineering structures. Either way,…
For the superconducting phase with a d-wave order parameter and zero temperature the magnetic susceptibility of the t-J model is calculated using the Mori projection operator technique. Conditions for the appearance of an incommensurate…
We report the observation of the three-dimensional angular dependence of the spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) in a bilayer of the epitaxial antiferromagnetic insulator NiO(001) and the heavy metal Pt, without any ferromagnetic element. The…
We develop a multiscale approach to describe the behavior of a suspension of solid magnetizable particles in a viscous non-conducting fluid in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field. By upscaling the quasi-static Maxwell…
This paper applies the theory of rate-independent systems to model the locomotion of bio-mimetic soft crawlers. We prove the well-posedness of the approach and illustrate how the various strategies adopted by crawlers to achieve locomotion,…
This study addresses the modelling of elastic bodies, particularly when the relaxed configuration is unknown or non-existent. We adopt the theory of initially stressed materials, incorporating the deformation gradient and stress state of…
In a realistic model of magneto-elastic oscillations in magnetars, we find that crustal shear oscillations, often invoked as an explanation of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) seen after giant flares in soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs),…
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (WTe$_2$ and MoTe$_2$) have drawn much attention, recently, because of the nonsaturating extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) observed in these compounds in addition to the predictions of likely type-II…
The precise derivation of physical quantities like temperature or pressure at arbitrary locations is useful in numerous contexts, e.g. medical procedures or industrial process engineering. The novel sensor technology of magneto-mechanical…
We study hysteretic magnetoresistance in InSb nanowires due to stray magnetic fields from CoFe micromagnets. Devices without any ferromagnetic components show that the magnetoresistance of InSb nanowires commonly exhibits either a local…
It is shown that in external magnetic fields, a uniaxial magnetic anisotropy comes into being in a magnetoactive elastomer (MAE). The magnitude of the induced uniaxial anisotropy grows with the increasing external magnetic field. The filler…