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Antiferromagnets exhibit distinctive characteristics such as ultrafast dynamics and robustness against perturbative fields, thereby attracting considerable interest in fundamental physics and technological applications. Recently, it was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Atsushi Ono , Sumio Ishihara

We predict a supercurrent-driven N\'eel spin-orbit torque in a superconductor/$d$-wave altermagnet heterostructure, associated with the emergence of spin-triplet correlations. The effect can be understood as a consequence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Hamed Vakili , Moaz Ali , Igor Žutić , Alexey A. Kovalev

A theory of magnetization dynamics in ferrimagnetic materials with antiparallel aligned spin sub-lattices under action of spin-transfer torques (STT) is developed. We consider magnetization dynamics in GdFeCo layers in two cases of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Ivan Lisenkov , Roman Khymyn , Johan Akerman , Nian X. Sun , Boris A. Ivanov

A proposal to detect the purported canted antiferromagnet order for the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state of graphene based on a two-terminal spin transport setup is theoretically discussed. In the presence of a magnetic field normal to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 So Takei , Amir Yacoby , Bertrand I. Halperin , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

N\'eel vector, the order parameter of collinear antiferromagnets, serves as a state variable in associated antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronic devices to encode information. A deterministic switching of N\'eel vector is crucial for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Shui-Sen Zhang , Zi-An Wang , Bo Li , Wen-Jian Lu , Mingliang Tian , Yu-Ping Sun , Haifeng Du , Ding-Fu Shao

Whether a zero-moment antiferromagnet can host an intrinsic half-metallic ground state with a single-spin Fermi surface remains an open question in antiferromagnetic spintronics. Existing proposals in compensated magnets reach only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Xin Chen , Jin Zou , Lipeng Song , Wei Sun , Yiwen Wu , Luyao Zhu , Xu Cheng , Duo Wang , Biplab Sanyal

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

Antiferromagnets are promising candidates for ultrafast spintronic applications, leveraging current-induced spin-orbit torques. However, experimentally distinguishing between different switching mechanisms of the staggered magnetization…

Using time-resolved X-ray magnetic linear dichroism in reflection, we provide a direct probe of the N\'eel vector dynamics in TmFeO$_3$ on a ultrafast timescale. Our measurements reveal that, following optical excitation, the N\'eel vector…

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…

Antiferromagnetic spintronics have attracted wide attention due to its great potential in constructing ultra-dense and ultra-fast antiferromagnetic memory that suits modern high-performance information technology. The electrical 180o…

Superfluid spin transport $-$ dissipationless transport of spin $-$ is theoretically studied in a ferromagnetic insulator with easy-plane anisotropy. We consider an open geometry where spin current is injected into the ferromagnet from one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 So Takei , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The existing proposals for superfluid-like spin transport have been based on easy-plane magnets where the U(1) spin-rotational symmetry is spontaneously broken in equilibrium, and this has been limiting material choices for realizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Jongpil Yun , Se Kwon Kim

In this work, we investigate the steady propagation of 180-degree domain walls (180DWs) of N\'{e}el vectors in thin antiferromagnetic strips under perpendicularly injected spin currents with various polarization orientations. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Jiaxin Du , Mei Li , Bin Xi , Xue Zhang , Yi Sun , Chun-Gui Duan , Jie Lu

The bias driven perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is a magneto-electric effect that can realize 90$^\circ$ magnetization rotation and even 180$% ^\circ $ flip along the easy axis in the ferromagnets with a minimal energy consumption. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Yuriy G. Semenov , Xi-Lai Li , Ki Wook Kim

Antiferromagnets may exhibit spin superfluidity since the dipole interaction is weak. We seek to establish that this phenomenon occurs in insulators such as NiO, which is a good spin conductor according to previous studies. We investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-30 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Hans Skarsvåg , Cecilia Holmqvist , Arne Brataas

Antiferromagnets are magnetically ordered materials which exhibit no net moment and thus are insensitive to magnetic fields. Antiferromagnetic spintronics aims to take advantage of this insensitivity for enhanced stability, while at the…

The spin-orbit torque switching of ferrimagnetic Gd$_x$(Fe$_{90}$Co$_{10}$)$_{100-x}$ films was studied for both transition metal (TM)-rich and rare earth (RE)-rich configurations. The spin-orbit torque driven magnetization switching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Niklas Roschewsky , Tomoya Matsumura , Suraj Cheema , Frances Hellman , Takeshi Kato , Satoshi Iwata , Sayeef Salahuddin

Ultrafast electric manipulation of magnetic order in solids is critical for the development of future terahertz data processing. A fascinating concept for such high-speed operation is offered in metallic antiferromagnets by N\'eel…

The spin-orbit torque induced by a topological insulator (TI) is theoretically examined for spin wave generation in a neighboring antiferromagnetic thin film. The investigation is based on the micromagnetic simulation of N\'{e}el vector…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-26 Xinyi Xu , Yuriy G. Semenov , Ki Wook Kim
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