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Spin-transfer torque and spin Hall effects combined with their reciprocal phenomena, spin-pumping and inverse spin Hall (ISHE) effects, enable the reading and control of magnetic moments in spintronics. The direct observation of these…

Spintronic structures are extensively investigated for their spin orbit torque properties, required for magnetic commutation functionalities. Current progress in these materials is dependent on the interface engineering for the optimization…

An antiferromagnet emits spin currents when time-reversal symmetry is broken. This is typically achieved by applying an external magnetic field below and above the spin-flop transition or by optical pumping. In this work we apply optical…

Spin angular momentum transfer in magnetic bilayers offers the possibility of ultrafast and low-loss operation for next-generation spintronic devices. We report the field- and temperature- dependent measurements on the magnetization…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-03 X. Liu , P. Liu , H. C. Yuan , J. Y. Shi , H. L. Wang , S. H. Nie , F. Jin , Z. Zheng , X. Z. Yu , J. H. Zhao , H. B. Zhao , G. Lüpke

Spintronics in ferromagnetic metals is built on a complementary set of phenomena in which magnetic configurations influence transport coefficients and transport currents alter magnetic configurations. In this Letter we propose that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Nunez , R. A. Duine , A. H. MacDonald

We explore the possibility of exciting spin waves in insulating antiferromagnetic films by injecting spin current at the surface. We analyze both magnetically compensated and uncompensated interfaces. We find that the spin current induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-22 Matthew W. Daniels , Wei Guo , G. Malcolm Stocks , Di Xiao , Jiang Xiao

Here we report the possibility to excite ultra-short spin waves in ferromagnetic thin-films by using time-harmonic electromagnetic fields with terahertz frequency. Such ultra-fast excitation requires to include inertial effects in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Massimiliano d'Aquino , Salvatore Perna , Matteo Pancaldi , Riccardo Hertel , Stefano Bonetti , Claudio Serpico

Electrical manipulation of spin textures inside antiferromagnets represents a new opportunity for developing spintronics with superior speed and high device density. Injecting spin currents into antiferromagnets and realizing efficient…

Antiferromagnets typically host spin-wave (magnon) excitations in the terahertz (THz) regime, offering a promising platform for high-speed magnonic information technologies. Harnessing these excitations requires sensitive control of their…

In spintronics, it is important to be able to manipulate magnetization rapidly and reliably. Several methods can control magnetization, such as by applying current pulses or magnetic fields. An applied current can reverse magnetization with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Chung Ting Ma , Wei Zhou , S. Joseph Poon

The interplay of electric charge, spin, and orbital polarizations, coherently driven by picosecond long oscillations of light fields in spin-orbit coupled systems, is the foundation of emerging terahertz spintronics and orbitronics. The…

Spintronics had a widespread impact over the past decades due to transferring information by spin rather than electric currents. Its further development requires miniaturization and reduction of characteristic timescales of spin dynamics…

We use general hydrodynamic equations to determine the long-wavelength spin excitations in isotropic antiferromagnets in the presence of a homogeneous magnetization. The latter may be induced, such as in antiferromagnets in an external…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-07 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

We theoretically investigate laser-induced spin transport in metallic magnetic heterostructures using an effective spin transport description that treats itinerant electrons and thermal magnons on an equal footing. Electron-magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Maarten Beens , Rembert A. Duine , Bert Koopmans

We analyze theoretically the novel pathway of ultrafast spin dynamics for ferromagnets with high enough single-ion anisotropy (non-Heisenberg ferromagnets). This longitudinal spin dynamics includes the coupled oscillations of the modulus of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-28 E. G. Galkina , V. I. Butrim , Yu. A. Fridman , B. A. Ivanov , F. Nori

We theoretically and numerically elucidate the electrical control over spin waves in antiferromagnetic materials (AFM) with biaxial anisotropies and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. The spin wave dispersion in an AFM manifests as a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 T. H. Kim , Jung-Il Kim , Geun-Ju Kim , Kwang-Ho Jang , G. -M. Choi

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

It is demonstrated theoretically that a thin layer of an anisotropic antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulator can effectively conduct spin current by excitation of a pair of evanescent AFM spin wave modes. The spin current flowing through the AFM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Roman Khymyn , Ivan Lisenkov , Vasil S. Tiberkevich , Andrei N. Slavin , Boris A. Ivanov

Irradiating a ferromagnetic material with an ultrashort laser pulse leads to demagnetization on a femtosecond timescale. We implement Elliott-Yafet type spin-flip scattering, mediated by electron-electron and electron-phonon collisions,…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-29 Benedikt Y. Mueller , T. Roth , M. Cinchetti , M. Aeschlimann , B. Rethfeld

Terahertz (THz) signals, mainly generated by photonic or electronic approaches, are being sought for various applications, whereas the development of magnetic source might be a necessary step to harness the magnetic nature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Zhifeng Zhu , Kaiming Cai , Jiefang Deng , Venkata Pavan Kumar Miriyala , Hyunsoo Yang , Xuanyao Fong , Gengchiau Liang