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Manipulation of antiferromagnetic (AFM) spins by electrical means is on great demand to develop the AFM spintronics with low power consumption. In spite of the electrical modulation of insulated AFMs through coupling between their intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-07 Yuyan Wang , Xiang Zhou , Cheng Song , Yinuo Yan , Shiming Zhou , Guangyue Wang , Chao Chen , Fei Zeng , Feng Pan

When a spin-polarized current flows through a ferromagnetic (FM) metal, angular momentum is transferred to the background magnetization via spin-transfer torques. In antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, however, the corresponding problem is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu

This focused issue attempts to provide a comprehensive introduction into the field of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Apart from the brief overview below, it features five review articles. The intention is to cover in a coherent and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-31 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Manchon , X. Marti , J. Wunderlich , C. Felser

The realization of topological antiferromagnetic (AFM) solitons in real materials is a major goal towards their use in information technology. While they bear various advantages with respect to their ferromagnetic cousins, their observation…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-09 Amal Aldarawsheh , Moritz Sallermann , Muayad Abusaa , Samir Lounis

Spatial, momentum and energy separation of electronic spins in condensed matter systems guides the development of novel devices where spin-polarized current is generated and manipulated. Recent attention on a set of previously overlooked…

Magnetoelectric coupling is crucial for uncovering fundamental phenomena and advancing technologies in high-density data storage and energy-efficient devices. The emergence of altermagnets, which unify the advantages of ferromagnets and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Antiferromagnetic transition metal oxides are an established and widely studied materials system in the context of spin-based electronics, commonly used as passive elements in exchange bias-based memory devices. Currently, major interest…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-24 H. Meer , O. Gomonay , A. Wittmann , M. Kläui

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has been receiving tremendous attention due to their ultrafast kinetics, zero stray field, immune to external magnetic field, and potential to minimizing magnetic storage devices. The optical control of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Q. Xue , J. Zhou

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics offers a pathway toward electrically controllable spin-based devices beyond ferromagnets. Here, we identify wurtzite MnX (X = S, Se, Te) as a family of multiferroic materials hosting competing AFM phases,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-01 Himanshu Mavani , Mohamed Elekhtiar , Kai Huang , Naafis Ahnaf Shahed , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

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

The search for novel magnetic quantum phases, phenomena and functional materials has been guided by relativistic magnetic-symmetry groups in coupled spin and real space from the dawn of the field in 1950s to the modern era of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

Antiferromagnets offer an attractive platform for spintronics due to their absence of net magnetization and ultrafast spin dynamics, yet their intrinsically spin-compensated electronic structure has traditionally limited their active role…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-23 Joel Bobadilla , Alberto Camjayi

The discovery of fascinating ways to control and manipulate antiferromagnetic materials have garnered considerable attention as an attractive platform to explore novel spintronic phenomena and functionalities. Layered antiferromagnets…

The discovery of altermagnetism offers new opportunities for exploring novel quantum states and developing spintronic devices for enabling momentum dependent spin splitting in compensated systems, while zero net magnetization limit its…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 W. Z. Zhuo , Z. H. Guan , Z. L. Peng , Y. N. Pan , J. Chen , Y. Yang , M. H. Qin

In the framework of phenomenological model we consider dynamics of a compensated collinear antiferromagnet (AFM) in the presence of spin-polarised current. The model is based on the assumption that AFM spins are localised and spin torque is…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-16 H. Gomonay , V. Loktev

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…

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

Altermagnets -- newly identified collinear antiferromagnets -- carry zero net moment with non-relativistic, spin-polarized bands, distilling the best of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets into a single spintronic platform. Shrunking to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Sike Zeng , Dong Liu , Hongjie Peng , Chang-Chun He , Xiao-Bao Yang , Yu-Jun Zhao

Considering the similarity of the real-space configurations for the opposite spin sublattices in both antiferromagnets (AFM) and altermagnets (AM), the relationship between them should be profound. In this work, we demonstrate that AFM and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-16 P. Zhou , X. N. Peng , Y. Z. Hu , B. R. Pan , S. M. Liu , Pengbo Lyu , L. Z. Sun

Spintronic devices based on antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials hold the promise of fast switching speeds and robustness against magnetic fields. Different device concepts have been predicted and experimentally demonstrated, such as…