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Altermagnets, a unique class of magnetic materials that combines features of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, have garnered attention for their potential in spintronics and magnonics. While the electronic properties of altermagnets…

We report that synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) can be efficiently switched by spin-orbit torques (SOTs) and the switching scheme does not obey the usual SOT switching rule. We show that both the positive and negative spin Hall angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Chong Bi , Hamid Almasi , Kyle Price , Ty Newhouse-Illige , Meng Xu , Shane R. Allen , Xin Fan , Weigang Wang

The Stern-Gerlach (SG) effect is well known as the spin-dependent splitting of a beam of atoms carrying magnetic moments by a magnetic-field gradient, leading to the concept of electron spin. Antiferromagnets can accommodate two magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Zhenyu Wang , Weiwei Bao , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

A theoretical formulation for spin transport through an antiferromagnetic (AF) insulator is presented in the case driven/detected by direct/inverse spin Hall effect in two heavy metal contacts. The spin signal is shown to be transferred by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Gen Tatara , Christian Ortiz Pauyac

The symmetry considerations that imply a non-zero anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in certain non-collinear antiferromagnets also imply both non-zero orbital magnetization and a net spin magnetization. We have explicitly evaluated the orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Hua Chen , Tzu-Cheng Wang , Di Xiao , Guang-Yu Guo , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

When a magnon passes through two-dimensional magnetic textures, it will experience a fictitious magnetic field originating from the $3\times 3$ skew-symmetric gauge fields. To date, only one of the three independent components of the gauge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Zhejunyu Jin , Xianglong Yao , Zhenyu Wang , H. Y. Yuan , Zhaozhuo Zeng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

We study the exchange between electron and magnon spins at the interface of an antiferromagnet and a heavy metal at finite temperatures. The underlying physical mechanism is based on spin torque associated with the creation/annihilation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Xi-guang Wang , Yao-Zhuang Nie , L. Chotorlishvili , Qing-lin Xia , J. Berakdar , Guang-hua Guo

Magnetization reversal in ferro- and ferrimagnets is a well-known archetype of non-equilibrium processes, where the volume fractions of the oppositely magnetized domains vary and perfectly compensate each other at the coercive magnetic…

Inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) in ferromagnetic metals (FM) can also be used to detect the spin current generated by longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in a ferromagnetic insulator YIG. However, anomalous Nernst effect(ANE) in FM itself…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Hao Wu , Xiao Wang , Li Huang , Jianying Qin , Chi Fang , Xuan Zhang , Caihua Wan , Xiufeng Han

The spin-Hall effect describes the interconversion of charge currents and spin currents, enabling highly efficient manipulation of magnetization for spintronics. Symmetry conditions generally restrict polarizations of these spin currents to…

We quantitatively evaluate a spin anomalous Hall effect (SAHE), generating spin angular momentum flow (spin current, $J_{\rm s}$), in an L1$\rm_{0}$-FePt ferromagnet by exploiting giant magnetoresistance devices with L1$\rm_{0}$-FePt / Cu /…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Takeshi Seki , Satoshi Iihama , Tomohiro Taniguchi , Koki Takanashi

The propagation of magnons along a symmetry path may depend on the direction of propagation, similar to many other quasiparticles in nature. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as nonreciprocity. In addition to the fact that it is of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-10 Albrecht von Faber , Christopher Hins , Khalil Zakeri

Control and detection of spin order in ferromagnets is the main principle allowing storing and reading of magnetic information in nowadays technology. The large class of antiferromagnets, on the other hand, is less utilized, despite its…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-23 P. Nemec , M. Fiebig , T. Kampfrath , A. V. Kimel

In magnetic systems, angular momentum is carried by spin and orbital degrees of freedom. Nonlocal devices, comprising heavy-metal nanowires on magnetic insulators like yttrium iron garnet (YIG), enable angular momentum transport via…

Polarization is a fundamental property of waves that refers to the orientation of the oscillations. It has been widely used to encode information in photonics and phononics. However, the polarization of spin waves is rarely used yet in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Zhen-wei Zhou , Xi-guang Wang , Yao-zhuang Nie , Qing-lin Xia , Zhong-ming Zeng , Guang-hua Guo

The measured Hall angle in a ferromagnetic nanomagnet shows a substantial non-linear dependence on an external magnetic field, which cannot be explained by adopted mechanisms of the Ordinary and Anomalous (AHE) Hall effects implying a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Vadym Zayets , Andrey S. Mishchenko

We demonstrate that an antiferromagnet can be employed for a highly efficient electrical manipulation of a ferromagnet. In our study we use an electrical detection technique of the ferromagnetic resonance driven by an in-plane ac-current in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 V. Tshitoyan , C. Ciccarelli , A. P. Mihai , M. Ali , A. C. Irvine , T. A. Moore , T. Jungwirth , A. J. Ferguson

Collinear antiferromagnets (AFs) support two degenerate magnon excitations carrying opposite spin polarizations, by which magnons can function as electrons in various spin-related phenomena. In an insulating ferromagnet(F)/AF/F trilayer, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Ran Cheng , Di Xiao , Jian-Gang Zhu

The unique features of ultrafast spin dynamics and the absence of macroscopic magnetization in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials provide a distinct route towards high-speed magnetic storage devices with low energy consumption and high…

We study the laser control of magnon topological phases induced by the Aharonov-Casher effect in insulating antiferromagnets (AFs). Since the laser electric field can be considered as a time-periodic perturbation, we apply the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Kouki Nakata , Se Kwon Kim , Shintaro Takayoshi