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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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Spintronics, a transformative field of research, leverages the spin of electron to revolutionize electronic devices, offering significant advantages over traditional charge-based systems. This chapter highlights the critical role of novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-03 A. Sud , A. Kumar , M. Cubukcu

Electrical manipulation of magnetic order by current-induced spin torques lays the foundation for spintronics. One promising approach is encoding information in the N\'eel vector of antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, particularly to…

We study spin-dependent interband resonant tunneling in double-barrier InAs/AlSb/ GaMnSb heterostructures. We demonstrate that these structures can be used as spin filters utilizing spin-selective tunneling of electrons through the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. Petukhov , D. O. Demchenko , A. N. Chantis

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) have been widely applied in spintronic devices for efficient spin detection through the imbalance of spin polarization at the Fermi level. The van der Waals (vdW) nature of two-dimensional (2D) magnets with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-31 Wen Jin , Xinlu Li , Gaojie Zhang , Hao Wu , Xiaokun Wen , Li Yang , Jie Yu , Bichen Xiao , Wenfeng Zhang , Jia Zhang , Haixin Chang

Spintronic and nanomagnetic devices often derive their functionality from layers of different materials and the interfaces between them. This is especially true for synthetic antiferromagnets - two or more ferromagnetic layers that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 R. A. Duine , Kyung-Jin Lee , Stuart S. P. Parkin , M. D. Stiles

Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a new class of spin compensated magnetic materials that exhibit momentum dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. The origin of these electronic signatures lies in symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Diego López-Alcalá , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are key enablers of spintronic technologies used in a variety of applications including information storage, microwave generation and detection, as well as unconventional computing. Here, we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Andrea Meo , Chengcen Sha , Emily Darwin , Riccardo Tomasello , Mario Carpentieri , Ilya N. Krivorotov , Giovanni Finocchio

Altermagnets are a novel class of materials that combine antiferromagnetic spin ordering with non-relativistic spin splitting (NRSS) in their band structure, making them promising candidates for spintronics applications without requiring…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Niklas Sicheler , Roberto Raimondi , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Lorenzo Del Re

We propose, for the first time, that an array of diamond plaquettes, each possessing vanishing net magnetization, can achieve complete spin polarization over a broad bias window. Furthermore, this system can be utilized to realize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Debjani Das Gupta , Santanu K. Maiti

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

Altermagnets (A$\ell$Ms) constitute a novel family of magnetic materials characterized by the absence of net magnetization and the presence of spin-polarized band structures. Whereas A$\ell$M phases were initially proposed in collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Mengli Hu , Mikel I. Iraola , Paul McClarty , Jeroen van den Brink , Maia G. Vergniory

Parity-time-reversal-symmetric odd-parity antiferromagnetic (AFM1) materials are of interest for their symmetry-enabled quantum transport and optical effects. These materials host odd-parity terms in their band dispersion, leading to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-27 Hao Wu , Daniel F. Agterberg

We demonstrate efficient spin-polarized tunneling between a ferromagnetic metal and a ferromagnetic semiconductor with highly mismatched conductivities. This is indicated by a large tunneling magnetoresistance (up to 30%) at low…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 S. H. Chun , S. J. Potashnik , K. C. Ku , P. Schiffer , N. Samarth

A recently identified class of collinear magnetic order, characterized by vanishing net magnetization yet unconventional spin splitting, known as altermagnets (AMs), has attracted significant research interest. Controlling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yichen Liu , Tongshuai Zhu , Haijun Zhang

Inducing magnetic orders in a topological insulator (TI) to break its time reversal symmetry has been predicted to reveal many exotic topological quantum phenomena. The manipulation of magnetic orders in a TI layer can play a key role in…

It is predicted that certain atomically ordered interfaces between some ferromagnetic metals (F) and semiconductors (S) should act as ideal spin filters that transmit electrons only from the majority spin bands or only from the minority…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 George Kirczenow

Multiferroics are singular materials that can display simultaneously electric and magnetic orders. Some of them can be ferroelectric and ferromagnetic and, for example, provide the unique opportunity of encoding information independently in…

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

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