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It was recently found that the electric local-field effect (LFE) can lead to strong coupling of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) to off-resonant optical fields. We demonstrate that the magnetic LFE gives rise to a previously…

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How to efficiently manipulate the N\'eel vector of antiferromagnets (AFM) by electric methods is one of the major focuses in current antiferromagnetic spintronics. In this work, we investigated the ferroelectric control of magnetism in AFM…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-07 Fanxing Zheng , Meng Zhu , Xinlu Li , Peina Zhang , Jiuzhao Liu , Jianting Dong , Jia Zhang

Antiferromagnetic states with no stray magnetic fields can enable high-density ultra-fast spintronic technologies. However, the detection and control of antiferromagnetic Neel vectors remain challenging. Linear magnetoelectric…

With the development of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials, magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is widely used to measure ferromagnetism in 2D systems. Although this effect is usually inactive in antiferromagnets (AFM), recent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Di Zhou , Ning Ding , Haoshen Ye , Shuai Dong , Shan-Shan Wang

In the quest to develop spintronic logic, it was discovered that magnetoelectric switching results in lower energy and shorter switching time than other mechanisms. Magnetoelectric (ME) field due to exchange bias at the interface with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Dmitri E. Nikonov , Sasikanth Manipatruni , Ian A. Young

The magnetoelectric (ME) effects are caused by interactions of the electrical and magnetic subsystems in a solid. Among the applications of ME effects, there are methods of magnetic reversal under the influence of an electrostatic field and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-08 Bogdan Tanygin

The electric-field control of magnetism is a highly promising and potentially effective approach for achieving energy-efficient applications. In recent times, there has been significant interest in the magneto-ionic effect in synthetic…

The interaction between light's angular momentum (AM) and material systems has unlocked new avenues in structured photonics, including in magneto-optical (MO) materials. While spin angular momentum (SAM) effects in MO systems are…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-04 Seth Nelson , Cong Yu , Daniel Watson , Shahrzad Ramtinfard , Miguel Levy

We propose a fractionally quantized polarization induced by interlayer sliding in bilayer altermagnets, unveiling a previously unrecognized multiferroic phase termed sliding fractional quantum multiferroicity (SFQM). This unconventional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-29 Jiajun Lu , Mu Tian , Chaoxi Cui , Zhi-Ming Yu , Run-Wu Zhang , Yugui Yao

Mutual control of the electricity and magnetism in terms of magnetic (H) and electric (E) fields, the magnetoelectric (ME) effect, offers versatile low power-consumption alternatives to current data storage, logic gate, and spintronic…

We investigate the possibility of controlling the magnetic phase transition of the heterointerface between a half-doped manganite La$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_{3}$ and a multiferroic BiFeO$_{3}$ through magnetoelectric coupling. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Di Yi , Jian Liu , Satoshi Okamoto , Suresha Jagannatha , Yi-Chun Chen , Pu Yu , Ying-Hao Chu , Elke Arenholz , R. Ramesh

We investigate the spin-valley polarization in MoTe$_2$ monolayer on (111) and (001) surfaces of ferromagnetic semiconductor EuO based on first-principles calculations. We consider surface reconstructions for EuO(111). We find that there is…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-15 Ao Zhang , Zisheng Gong , Ziming Zhu , Anlian Pan , Mingxing Chen

The interplay among quantum degrees of freedom-spin, orbital and momentum-has emerged as a fertile ground for realizing magnetic quantum states with transformative potential for electronic and spintronic technologies. Prominent examples…

Van der Waals heterostructures combining two-dimensional magnetic and semiconducting layers constitute a promising platform for interfacing magnetism, electronics, and optics. Here, we use resonant optical reflection spectroscopy to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Livio Ciorciaro , Martin Kroner , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Atac Imamoglu

The magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE), the differential reflection of oppositely circularly polarized light, has traditionally been associated with relativistic spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which links a particle's spin with its orbital…

Electrical control of structural and physical properties is a long-sought, but elusive goal of contemporary science and technology. We demonstrate that a combination of strong spin-orbit interactions (SOI) and a canted antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-08 G. Cao , J. Terzic , H. D. Zhao , H. Zheng , L. E. De Long , Peter S. Riseborough

The linear magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is often used to probe magnetism of ferromagnetic materials, but MOKE cannot be applied to collinear antiferromagnets (AFs) due to the cancellation of sub-lattice magnetization. Magneto-optical…

The modulation of topological electronic states by an external magnetic field is highly desired for condensed matter physics. Schemes to achieve this have been proposed theoretically, but few can be realized experimentally. Here, combining…

Magnetic adatoms on surfaces are exchange coupled to their environment, inducing fast relaxation of excited spin states and decoherence. These interactions can be suppressed by inserting decoupling layers between the magnetic adsorbate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Sergey Trishin , Christian Lotze , Nils Bogdanoff , Felix von Oppen , Katharina J. Franke

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…