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We develop a theory for spin transported by coherent Neel dynamics through an antiferromagnetic insulator coupled to a ferromagnetic insulator on one side and a current-carrying normal metal with strong spin-orbit coupling on the other. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 So Takei , Takahiro Moriyama , Teruo Ono , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Altermagnets, a newly discovered class of magnets, integrate the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, such as enabling anomalous transport without stray fields and supporting ultrafast spin dynamics, offering exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Xian-Peng Zhang , Run-Wu Zhang , Xiaolong Fan , Wanxiang Feng , Xiangrong Wang , Yugui Yao

We demonstrate that an all-antiferromagnetic tunnel junction with current perpendicular to the plane geometry can be used as an efficient spintronics device with potential high frequency operation. By using state-of-the-art density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Maria Stamenova , Razie Mohebbi , Jamileh Seyedyazdi , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

Spin-orbit torques enable energy-efficient manipulation of magnetization by electric current and hold promise for applications ranging from nonvolatile memory to neuromorphic computing. Here we report the discovery of a giant spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Eric Arturo Montoya , Xinyao Pei , Ilya N. Krivorotov

As electrical control of N\'eel order opens the door to reliable antiferromagnetic spintronic devices, understanding the microscopic mechanisms of antiferromagnetic switching is crucial. Spatially-resolved studies are necessary to…

We investigate the spin transport across the magnetic phase diagram of a frustrated antiferromagnetic insulator and uncover a drastic modification of the transport regime from spin diffusion to spin superfluidity. Adopting a triangular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 V. M. L. D. P. Goli , Aurelien Manchon

Spin-orbitronics and Dirac quasiparticles are two fields of condensed matter physics initiated independently about a decade ago. Here we predict that Dirac quasiparticles can be controlled by the spin-orbit torque reorientation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Libor Šmejkal , Jakub Železný , Jairo Sinova , Tomáš Jungwirth

We demonstrate that a spin current flowing through a nano-contact into a uniaxial antiferromagnet with first- and second-order anisotropy can excite a self-localized dynamic magnetic soliton, known as a spin-wave droplet in ferromagnets.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Roman V. Ovcharov , Mohammad Hamdi , Boris A. Ivanov , Johan Åkerman , Roman S. Khymyn

We study the low temperature behavior of an amorphous superconducting film driven normal by a perpendicular magnetic field (B). For this purpose we introduce a new two-fluid formulation consisting of fermionized field induced vortices and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Victor Galitski , G. Refael , Matthew P. A. Fisher , T. Senthil

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

We consider the minimal coupling of a thin film Dirac semimetal Hamiltonian to a generic spin-texture. A simple unitary transformation gauges away the spatial dependence in the exchange term, leading to the generation of effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Pritam Chatterjee , Anirudha Menon

We report experimental and analytical work on spin-transfer torque induced vortex dynamics in metallic nanopillars with in-plane magnetized layers. We study nanopillars with a diameter of 150 nm, containing two Fe layers with a thickness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-14 Volker Sluka , Attila Kakay , Alina M. Deac , Daniel E. Bürgler , Riccardo Hertel , Claus M. Schneider

We demonstrate the possibility to drive an antiferromagnet domain-wall at high velocities by field-like N\'{e}el spin-orbit torques. Such torques arise from current-induced local fields that alternate their orientation on each sub-lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

The phenomenon of superfluidity (superconductivity) is a possibility of transport of mass (charge) on macroscopical distances without essential dissipation. In magnetically ordered media with easy-plane topology of the order parameter space…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-30 E. B. Sonin

Superdiffusion is an anomalous transport behavior. Recently, a new mechanism, termed the ``nodal mechanism," has been proposed to induce superdiffusion in quantum models. However, existing realizations of the nodal mechanism have so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Shaofeng Huang , Yu-Peng Wang , Jie Ren , Chen Fang

We report measurements demonstrating that when the Neel vector of the collinear antiferromagnet RuO2 is appropriately canted relative to the sample plane, the antiferromagnet generates a substantial out of plane damping-like torque. The…

We study dynamics of antiferromagnets induced by simultaneous application of dc spin current and ac charge current, motivated by the requirement of all-electrically controlled devices in THz gap (0.1-30 THz). We show that ac electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

Efficient and fast manipulation of antiferromagnets has to date remained a challenging task, hindering their application in spintronic devices. For ultrafast operation of such devices, it is highly desirable to be able to control the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-31 Markus Weißenhofer , Francesco Foggetti , Ulrich Nowak , Peter M. Oppeneer

We demonstrate efficient current induced spin orbit torque switching in perpendicularly magnetized epitaxial MgO(001)//Pd/Co2FeAl/MgO heterostructures grown by magnetron sputtering. The advantage of such heterostructures for spin orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 M. S. Gabor , T. Petrisor , M. Nasui , M. A. Nsibi , J. Nath , I. M. Miron

Antiferromagnetic materials with spin splitting have attracted considerable attention for their symmetry-enabled anisotropic spin textures that sustain a zero net magnetization, thereby facilitating efficient spin-current generation. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiabin Wang , Wancheng Zhang , Zhenhua Zhang , Rui Xiong , Yong Liu , Zhihong Lu