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We propose a device concept, based on monolayer stanene, able to provide highly polarized spin currents (up to a $98\%$) with voltage-controlled spin polarization operating at room temperature and with small operating voltage ($0.3$ V). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Enrique G. Marin , Damiano Marian , Giuseppe Iannaccone , Gianluca Fiori

Interference of spin-up and spin-down eigenstates depicts spin rotation of electrons, which is a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics and accepts technological challenges for the electrical spin manipulation. Here, we visualize this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-28 Kenta Kuroda , Koichiro Yaji , M. Nakayama , A. Harasawa , Y. Ishida , S. Watanabe , C. -T. Chen , T. Kondo , F. Komori , S. Shin

We demonstrate current-induced bipolar switching in in-plane magnetized spin-valve devices that incorporate a perpendicularly magnetized spin polarizing layer. Further, hysteretic transitions into a state with intermediate resistance occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Li Ye , Georg Wolf , Daniele Pinna , Gabriel D. Chaves , Andrew D. Kent

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…

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

Spin insulatronics covers efforts to generate, detect, control, and utilize high-fidelity pure spin currents and excitations inside magnetic insulators. Ultimately, the new findings may open doors for pure spin-based information and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Arne Brataas , Bart van Wees , Olivier Klein , Gregoire de Loubens , Michel Viret

Flexible manipulation of terahertz-wave polarization during the generation process is very important for terahertz applications, especially for the next-generation on-chip functional terahertz sources. However, current terahertz emitters…

Odd-parity spin-splitting plays a central role in spintronics and unconventional superconductivity, yet its microscopic realization in collinear magnetic systems remains elusive. We propose a general symmetry-based strategy for realizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Di Zhu , Dongling Liu , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

Conducting altermagnets have recently emerged as intriguing materials supporting strongly spin-polarized currents without magnetic stray fields. We demonstrate that altermagnets enable three key functionalities, merging superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-23 Hans Gløckner Giil , Bjørnulf Brekke , Jacob Linder , Arne Brataas

We establish a unified, symmetry-driven framework that combines the alternating spin splitting of altermagnets with valley topology to realize and electrically interconvert helical and chiral topological phases within a single material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Jiahui Qian , Ziye Zhu , Igor Zutic , Zhenyu Zhang , Tong Zhou

Arranging the stacking orders of A-type antiferromagnetic (A-AFM) bilayers offers a practical pathway to realizing two-dimensional altermagnets. Previous proposals, however, rely on stringent symmetry constraints, including layer groups and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-23 Zhe Li , Lijuan Li , Mengxue Guan , Sheng Meng

The realization of multiferroic altermagnets featuring giant intrinsic spin splitting, hold great promise for next-generation spintronics. In this work, based on the recently proposed concept of spin-antiferroelectric (spin-AFE), we…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Zesen Fu , Aolin Li , Wenzhe Zhou , Fangping Ouyang , Fawei Zheng , Yugui Yao

All-electrical writing and reading of spin states attract considerable attention for their promising applications in energy-efficient spintronics devices. Here we show, based on rigorous first-principles calculations, that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-22 Fei Gao , Dongzhe Li , Cyrille Barreteau , Mads Brandbyge

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

Altermagnets (AMs) constitute a novel class of spin-compensated materials in which the symmetry connecting opposite-spin sublattices involves a spatial rotation. Here, we uncover a set of unique non-linear, light-driven properties that set…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Amir Eskandari-asl , Jorge I. Facio , Oleg Janson , Adolfo Avella , Jeroen van den Brink

We propose a model of spin-polarized-current state for electrons in bilayer graphene. The model resolves the puzzles as revealed by experiments that (a) the energy gap $E_{\rm gap}$ of the insulating ground state at the charge neutrality…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-14 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

The control and generation of spin-polarized currents (SPCs) without magnetic materials and external magnetic field is a big challenge in spintronics and normally requires spin-flip mechanism. In this work, we propose a novel method to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 L. L. Tao , K. T. Cheung , L. Zhang , J. Wang

Spin waves in insulating magnets are ideal carriers for spin currents with low energy dissipation. An electric field can modify the dispersion of spin waves, by directly affecting, via spin-orbit coupling, the electrons that mediate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tianyu Liu , G. Vignale

The use of spin waves (SWs) as data carriers in spintronic and magnonic logic devices offers operation at low power consumption, free of Joule heating. Nevertheless, the controlled emission and propagation of SWs in magnetic materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Sebastian A. Diaz , Tomoki Hirosawa , Daniel Loss , Christina Psaroudaki

We simulate the electron transport in vertical bi-layer nanowire which can be fabricated in molecular beam epitaxy process with lateral confinement potential formed by means of cleaved overgrowth or surface oxidization methods giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 T. Chwiej
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