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Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling…

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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

The recent advent of a new class of magnetic material named as {\it altermagnet} (AM), characterized by a combination of momentum-dependent spin splitting with zero net magnetization, has opened up promising prospects for spintronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-12 Debika Debnath , Arijit Saha , Paramita Dutta

Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this subject, including both recent advances and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

Controlling spin current lies at the heart of spintronics and its applications. The sign of spin currents is monotonous in ferromagnets once the current direction is determined. Spin currents in antiferromagnets can possess opposite…

The discovery of collinear symmetric-compensated altermagnets (AM) with intrinsic spin splitting provides a route towards energy-efficient and ultrafast device applications. Here, using first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis,…

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Spin-split antiferromagnets have significance for antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics due to their momentum dependent spin polarization which can be exploited for the control and detection of the AFM order parameter. Here, we explore the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-14 Himanshu Mavani , Kai Huang , Kartik Samanta , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

All-electrical control of spin transport in nanostructures has been the central interest and chal- lenge of spin physics and spintronics. Here we demonstrate on-chip spin polarizing/filtering actions by driving the gate-defined one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 T. -M. Chen , M. Pepper , I. Farrer , G. A. C. Jones , D. A. Ritchie

Polarization is a key ingredient of all waves, including the electromagnetic wave, the acoustic wave, as well as the spin wave. Due to the fixed ferromagnetic order, the spin wave in ferromagnet is limited to the right circular…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-30 Jin Lan , Weichao Yu , Jiang Xiao

We propose a spintronic device to generate spin polarization in a mesoscopic region by purely electric means. We show that the spin Hall effect in combination with the stirring effect are sufficient to induce measurable spin polarization in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 Yu. V. Pershin , N. A. Sinitsyn , A. Kogan , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

We demonstrate theoretically that the spin polarization of current can be electrically amplified within nonmagnetic semiconductors by exploiting the fact the spin current, compared to the charge current, is weakly perturbed by electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. -W. Jung , H. -W. Lee

The pursuit of dissipationless spin supercurrents is a central theme in superconducting spintronics. We propose a field-free Josephson junction using an inhomogeneous altermagnetic interlayer with in-plane N\'{e}el vectors. We show that the…

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Incorporating zero-net-magnetization magnets that exhibit spin-splitting into spintronics delivers key advantages: faster switching dynamics, greater immunity to destabilizing fields, lower power consumption, and markedly improved overall…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 San-Dong Guo

We demonstrate that non-equilibrium electrons in thin nonmagnetic semiconductor layers or quantum dots can be fully spin polarized by means of simultaneous electrical spin injection and extraction. The complete spin polarization is achieved…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Osipov , A. G. Petukhov , V. N. Smelyanskiy

The ultimate goal of spintronics is achieving electrically controlled coherent manipulation of the electron spin at room temperature to enable devices such as spin field-effect transistors. With conventional materials, coherent spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Josep Ingla-Aynés , Franz Herling , Jaroslav Fabian , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

Electrical manipulation of spins is essential to design state-of-the-art spintronic devices and commonly relies on the spin current injected from a second heavy-metal material. The fact that chiral antiferromagnets produce spin current…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Hang Xie , Xin Chen , Qi Zhang , Zhiqiang Mu , Xinhai Zhang , Binghai Yan , Yihong Wu

We propose a novel scheme to efficiently polarize and manipulate the electron spin in a quantum dot. This scheme is based on the spin-orbit interaction and it possesses following advantages: (1) The direction and the strength of the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Altermagnetism has attracted considerable interest, yet its associated spintronic phenomena have so far been largely confined to electronic systems. In this work, we uncover a universal symmetry-based strategy for realizing topological…

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