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We study the behavior of non-equilibrium spin density and spin-orbit torque in a topological insulator - antiferromagnet heterostructure. Unlike ferromagnetic heterostructures where Dirac cone is gapped due to time-reversal symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Sumit Ghosh , Aurelien Manchon

We investigate spin transport in two dimensional ferromagnetic (FTI) and antiferromagnetic (AFTI) topological insulators. In presence of an in plane magnetization AFTI supports zero energy modes, which enables topologically protected edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Sumit Ghosh , Aurelien Manchon

We investigate theoretically the spin torque and magnetization dynamic in a thin ferromagnetic (FM) layer with spatially varying magnetization. The FM layer is deposited on the surface of a topological insulator (TI). In the limit of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Ji Chen , Mansoor Bin Abdul Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

We investigate spin-orbit torques on magnetization in an insulating ferromagnetic (FM) layer that is brought into a close proximity to a topological insulator (TI). In addition to the well-known field-like spin-orbit torque, we identify an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 R. J. Sokolewicz , I. A. Ado , M. I. Katsnelson , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. Titov

We explore the relationship among the magnetic ordering in real space, the resulting spin texture on the Fermi surface, and the related superconducting gap structure in non-collinear antiferromagnetic metals without spin-orbit coupling. Via…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-01 Seung Hun Lee , Bohm-Jung Yang

An antiferromagnet is a promising material for spin-orbit torque generation. Earlier studies of the spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet are limited to collinear spin configurations. We calculate the spin-orbit torque in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Suik Cheon , Hyun-Woo Lee

We unveil novel spin-orbit torque mechanisms driven by topological edge states in magnetic graphene-based devices. Within the energy gap, a damping-like torque plateau emerges within the quantum anomalous Hall phase upon breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , José H. García , Stephan Roche

Effects manifesting quantum geometry have been a focus of physics research. Here, we reveal that quantum metric plays a crucial role in nonlinear electric spin response, leading to a quantum metric spin-orbit torque. We argue that enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Xukun Feng , Weikang Wu , Hui Wang , Weibo Gao , Lay Kee Ang , Y. X. Zhao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

We report on a topological insulating state in a heavy-fermion system away from half-filling, which is hidden within a ferromagnetic metallic phase. In this phase, the cooperation of the RKKY interaction and the Kondo effect, together with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-16 Tsuneya Yoshida , Robert Peters , Satoshi Fujimoto , Norio Kawakami

Novel noncollinear antiferromagnets with spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking, nontrivial band topology, and unconventional transport properties have received immense research interest over the past decade due to their rich physics…

Topological spin structures such as magnetic skyrmions are of fundamental interest and promising for various types of applications in spintronics. Skyrmions have been predicted to emerge also in antiferromagnetic materials where they…

We investigate the role of topology and distortions in the quantum dynamics of magnetic molecules, using a cyclic spin system as reference. We consider three variants of antiferromagnetic molecular ring, i.e. Cr$_8$, Cr$_7$Zn and Cr$_7$Ni,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Carretta , P. Santini , G. Amoretti , M. Affronte , A. Ghirri , I. Sheikin , S. Piligkos , G. Timco , R. E. P. Winpenny

Altermagnetism (AM) and its associated spin-transport phenomena are typically linked to spin-split electronic band structures in bulk materials. However, the crystal surface has a reduced symmetry with respect to the bulk, which can induce…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-12 Valentin Leeb , Peru d'Ornellas , Fernando de Juan , Adolfo G. Grushin

We study the surface resistivity of a three-dimensional topological insulator when the boundaries exhibit a non trivial curvature. We obtain an analytical solution for a spherical topological insulator, and we show that a non trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-27 V. Parente , P. Lucignano , P. Vitale , A. Tagliacozzo , F. Guinea

We develop a description of spin waves in a $3D$ quantum $XY$ antiferromagnet (AFM) in terms of macroscopic variables, magnetization and N\'eel vector densities. We consider a layered AFM with spins located on the honeycomb lattice. In the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-04 Ankang Liu , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

The magnetization evolution of the free layer in an orthogonal spin-torque device is studied based on a macrospin model. The trajectory of magnetization vector under various conditions has shown rich nonlinear properties. The phase diagram…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Yuan Hui , Zheng Yang , Hao Yu

The ac spin pumping of noncollinear antiferromagnets is theoretically investigated. Starting from an effective action description of the spin system, we derive the Onsager coefficients connecting the spin pumping and spin-transfer torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Mike A. Lund , Akshaykumar Salimath , Kjetil M. D. Hals

We theoretically and numerically study the terahertz auto oscillations in thin-film metallic non-collinear coplanar antiferromagnets (AFMs), such as $\mathrm{Mn_{3}Sn}$ and $\mathrm{Mn_{3}Ir}$, under the effect of anti-damping spin-torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Ankit Shukla , Shaloo Rakheja

We show that a gapped spin-$S$ chain with antiferromagnetic (AFM) order exhibits in the thermodynamic limit exponentially localized fractional $\pm \frac{S}{2}$ edge modes when the system possesses U(1) symmetry. We show this for integrable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-05 Pradip Kattel , Yicheng Tang , J. H. Pixley , Natan Andrei

Current-driven spin-orbit torques are investigated in a heterostructure composed of a ferromagnet deposited on top of a three dimensional topological insulator using the linear response formalism. We develop a tight-binding model of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 Sumit Ghosh , Aurelien Manchon
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