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We suggest coherent switching of canted antiferromagnetic (AFM) spins using spin-orbit torque (SOT) in small magnet. The magnetic system of orthoferrite features biaxial easy anisotropy and the Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 T. H. Kim , S. Hwang , S. Y. Hamh , S. H. Yoon , S. H. Han , B. K. Cho

We observe the excitation of collective modes in the THz range driven by the recently discovered N\'{e}el spin-orbit torques (NSOT) in the metallic antiferromagnet Mn$_{2}$Au. Temperature dependent THz spectroscopy reveals a strong…

Antiferromagnets have large potential for ultrafast coherent switching of magnetic order with minimum heat dissipation. In novel materials such as Mn$_2$Au and CuMnAs, electric rather than magnetic fields may control antiferromagnetic order…

Electric control of N\'eel vector is a central task of antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics. The major scheme so far relies on the linear N\'eel torque, which however is restricted to AFMs with broken inversion symmetry. Here, we propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Jin Cao , Weikang Wu , Huiying Liu , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , X. C. Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang

Magnetic topological insulators host exotic phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect and quantized magnetoelectric responses, but dynamic electrical control of their topological phases remains elusive. Here we demonstrate from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Rajibul Islam , Shakeel Ahmad , Fei Xue

The $RE$Al(Si,Ge) ($RE$ = rare earth) family, known to break both the inversion- and time-reversal symmetries, represents one of the most suitable platforms for investigating the interplay between correlated-electron phenomena and…

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) couples charge and spin transport, enabling electrical control of magnetization. A quintessential example of SOI-induced transport is the anomalous Hall effect (AHE), first observed in 1880, in which an electric…

In the two-dimensional limit, the interplay between Neel order and band topology in van der Waals topological antiferromagnets can give rise to novel quantum phenomena in the quantum anomalous Hall state, including the cascaded quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Xiaotian Yang , Yongqian Wang , Yongchao Wang , Zichen Lian , Jinsong Zhang , Yayu Wang , Chang Liu , Wenbo Wang

Spin-orbit torque (SOT)-induced magnetization switching shows promise for realizing ultrafast and reliable spintronics devices. Bipolar switching of perpendicular magnetization via SOT is achieved under an in-plane magnetic field collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Shunsuke Fukami , Chaoliang Zhang , Samik DuttaGupta , Hideo Ohno

Magnetic switching in antiferromagnets relies on Neel spin orbit torque (NSOT), which originates from a current-induced staggered spin polarization of itinerant electrons. In collinear antiferromagnets, such a response requires the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We demonstrate that spin-orbit coupled electrons in a magnetically doped system exert a spin torque on the local magnetization, without a flowing current, when the chemical potential is modulated in a magnetic field. The spin torque is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-17 Kentaro Nomura , Daichi Kurebayashi

Non-collinear antiferromagnets (nAFMs) with a small net magnetic moment offer new opportunities for ultrafast spintronic devices, owing to unique physical properties. While in ferromagnets and collinear AFMs the spin current polarization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Ping Tang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Electron correlation often gives birth to various orders in quantum materials. Recently, a strongly correlated kagome antiferromagnet FeGe is discovered to undergo a charge density wave transition inside the A-type antiferromagnetic state,…

Altermagnets break time-reversal symmetry and their spin-orbit coupling (SOC) allow for an anomalous Hall effect (AHE) that depends on the direction of the N\'eel ordering vector. The AHE and the ferromagnetic spin moment share the same…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-03 Mercè Roig , Yue Yu , Rune C. Ekman , Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen , Daniel F. Agterberg

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics exploits the N\'eel vector as a state variable for novel spintronic devices. Recent studies have shown that the field-like and antidamping spin-orbit torques (SOT) can be used to switch the N\'eel vector…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-18 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Gautam Gurung , Wen Yang , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Spin-orbit coupling in ferromagnets gives rise to the anomalous Hall effect and the anisotropic magnetoresistance, both of which can be used to create spin-transfer torques in a similar manner as the spin Hall effect. In this paper we show…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-19 Tomohiro Taniguchi , J. Grollier , M. D. Stiles

We theoretically investigate the resonant and higher order magnetic responses of a collinear antiferromagnet induced by N\'eel spin-orbit torques (NSOTs). By deriving the dynamical susceptibilities up to the third harmonic, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Kuangyin Deng , Ran Cheng

The effect of spin currents on the magnetic order of insulating antiferromagnets (AFMs) is of fundamental interest and can enable new applications. Toward this goal, characterizing the spin-orbit torques (SOT) associated with AFM/heavy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Egecan Cogulu , Hantao Zhang , Nahuel N. Statuto , Yang Cheng , Fengyuan Yang , Ran Cheng , Andrew D. Kent

While altermagnetic materials are characterized by a vanishing net magnetic moment, their symmetry in principle allows for the existence of an anomalous Hall effect (AHE). Here we introduce a model with altermagnetism in which the emergence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-05 Toshihiro Sato , Sonia Haddad , Ion Cosma Fulga , Fakher F. Assaad , Jeroen van den Brink

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…

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