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Ferromagnet-ferroelectric-metal superlattices are proposed to realize the large room-temperature magnetoelectric effect. Spin dependent electron screening is the fundamental mechanism at the microscopic level. We also predict an electric…

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The magnetoelectric coupling effect serves as a crucial bridge between electrical and magnetic order parameters in condensed matter physics, forming the physical basis for the development of next-generation low-power information storage and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-16 Yalong Yu , Hengwei Zhang , Xiaoyan Liu , Tao Chu

We report an unusual, non-monotonous dependence of the exchange bias on the thickness of the ferromagnetic layer in a ferromagnet/antiferromagnet bilayer system. We show that in epitaxial CoO/Fe(110) bilayers, the evolution of the Fe…

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Ferroaxial ordering, a spontaneous rotational distortion of the atomic arrangement, brings about a cross-product-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC) manifested as an electric toroidal dipole. We propose the light-induced nonlinear Edelstein…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-08 Akimitsu Kirikoshi , Satoru Hayami

The ideal altermagnets are a class of collinear, crystal-symmetry-enforced fully compensated magnets with nonrelativistic spin-split bands, in which contributions from Berry curvature to magneto-optical effects (MOEs) are strictly forbidden…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Yongpan Li , Yichen Liu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Altermagnetism represents a novel class of collinear antiferromagnetism exhibiting non-relativistic spin splitting without net magnetization, driven by lattice symmetry rather than spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we introduce a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Diego López-Alcalá , Alberto M. Ruiz , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

We investigated the effect of an electric field on the interface magnetic anisotropy of a thin MgO/Fe/MgO layer using density functional theory. The perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) increases not only under electron depletion…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Daiki Yoshikawa , Masao Obata , Yusaku Taguchi , Shinya Haraguchi , Tatsuki Oda

The coupling between ferroelectric and magnetic orders in multiferroic materials and the nature of magnetoelectric (ME) effects are enduring experimental challenges. In this work, we have studied the response of magnetization to…

Spin current generated by spin Hall effect in the heavy metal would diffuse up and down to adjacent ferromagnetic layers and exert torque on their magnetization, called spin-orbit torque. Antiferromagnetically coupled trilayers, namely the…

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Magnetic topological insulators host exotic phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect and quantized magnetoelectric responses, but dynamic electrical control of their topological phases remains elusive. Here we demonstrate from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Rajibul Islam , Shakeel Ahmad , Fei Xue

Optical manipulation of quantum matter offers a non-contact, high-precision and fast control. Fractional Chern ferromagnet states in moir\'e superlattices are promising for topological quantum computing, but an effective optical control…

Faraday and Kerr rotations are magnetooptical (MO) effects used for rotating the polarization of light in transmission and reflection from a magnetized medium, respectively. MO effects combined with intrinsically fast magnetization…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-28 Soheila Kharratian , Hakan Urey , Mehmet C. Onbaşlı

Femtosecond optical pulses have opened a new frontier in ultrafast dynamics, enabling direct access to fundamental interactions in quantum materials. In antiferromagnets (AFMs), where the fundamental quantum mechanical exchange interaction…

Spintronic devices currently rely on magnetic switching or controlled motion of domain walls by an external magnetic field or spin-polarized current. Achieving the same degree of magnetic controllability using an electric field has…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-14 Tuomas H. E. Lahtinen , Kévin J. A. Franke , Sebastiaan van Dijken

We introduce Land-MoE, a novel approach for multispectral land cover classification (MLCC). Spectral shift, which emerges from disparities in sensors and geospatial conditions, poses a significant challenge in this domain. Existing methods…

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We discover that the way spin-waves exert magnetic torques in multiferroic materials can cause not only domain wall motion, but also magnetization dynamics for homogeneous magnetization textures. Interestingly, the domain wall motion can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) induced magnetisation switching in CoFeB/Ta/CoFeB trilayer with two CoFeB layers exhibiting in-plane magnetic anisotropy (IPMA) and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) is investigated. Interlayer exchange…

LiNbO3 (LN) is renowned for its exceptional ferroelectric properties, particularly its notable linear electro-optical (EO) effect, which is highly advantageous for various applications such as high-speed communication, optical computation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-20 Yalong Yu , Bo Xiong , Siqi Wu , Yekai Ren , Nuo Chen , Qingjiao Mi , Zhaojie Zheng , Kangping Lou , Rui Wang , Tao Chu

Antiferromagnetic materials present us with rich and exciting physics, which we can exploit to open new avenues in spintronic device applications. We explore perpendicularly magnetized exchange biased systems of Pt/Co/IrMn and Pt/Co/FeMn,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Risalat A. Khan , Hans T. Nembach , Mannan Ali , Justin M. Shaw , Christopher H. Marrows , Thomas A. Moore

The origin and properties of the transverse non-reciprocal magneto-optical (nMO) effect were studied. The transverse nMO effect occurs in the case when light propagates perpendicularly to the magnetic field. It was demonstrated that light…

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