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In the active search for potentially promising candidates for spintronic applications, we focus on the intermetallic ferromagnetic Mn5Ge3 compound and perform accurate first-principles FLAPW calculations within density functional theory.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Picozzi , A. Continenza , A. J. Freeman

When interacting spins in condensed matter order ferromagnetically, their ground state wave function is topologically trivial. Nonetheless, in two dimensions, the ferromagnetic state can support spin excitations with nontrivial topology, an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Alexander Mook , Sebastián A. Díaz , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

In ferromagnetic systems lacking inversion symmetry, an applied electric field can control the ferromagnetic order parameters through the spin-orbit torque. The prototypical example is a bilayer heterostructure composed of a ferromagnet and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-28 Fei Xue , Mark D. Stiles , Paul M. Haney

We analyze a measurement scheme that allows determination of the Berry curvature and the topological Chern number of a Hamiltonian with parameters exploring a two-dimensional closed manifold. Our method uses continuous monitoring of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Peng Xu , Alexander Holm Kiilerich , Ralf Blattmann , Yang Yu , Shi-Liang Zhu , Klaus Mølmer

It has been predicted theoretically and indirectly confirmed experimentally that single-layer CrX$_3$ (X=Cl, Br, I) might be the prototypes of topological magnetic insulators (TMI). In this work, by using first-principles calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-07 Y. O. Kvashnin , A. Bergman , A. I. Lichtenstein , M. I. Katsnelson

Magnons, as the most elementary excitations of magnetic materials, have recently emerged as a prominent tool in electrical and thermal manipulation and transport of spin, and magnonics as a field is considered as one of the pillars of…

We introduce a computational framework for first-principles density matrix transport within the Wigner function formalism to predict transport of quantum-mechanical degrees of freedom such as spin over long time and length scales. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Mayada Fadel , Joshua Quinton , Mani Chandra , Mayank Gupta , Yuan Ping , Ravishankar Sundararaman

Spin waves propagating through a stripe domain structure and reservoir computing with their spin dynamics have been numerically studied with focusing on the relation between physical phenomena and computing capabilities. Our system utilizes…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Ryosho Nakane , Akira Hirose , Gouhei Tanaka

We develop a theoretical framework for inertial spin-wave dynamics in three-dimensional twisted soft-magnetic nanostrips, where curvature and torsion couple with magnetic inertia to generate terahertz (THz) magnetic oscillations. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Massimiliano d'Aquino , Riccardo Hertel

In this series of lectures, we discuss the basic theoretical concepts of magnonics and spintronics. We first briefly recall the relevant topics from quantum mechanics, electrodynamics of continuous media, and basic theory of magnetism. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 M. Mazanov , V. A. Shklovskij

Molecular nanomagnets are among the first examples of spin systems of finite size and have been test-beds for addressing a range of elusive but important phenomena in quantum dynamics. In fact, for short-enough timescales the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. L. Baker , T. Guidi , S. Carretta , J. Ollivier , H. Mutka , H. U. Güdel , G. A. Timco , E. J. L. McInnes , G. Amoretti , R. E. P. Winpenny , P. Santini

Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are stimuli-responsive materials at the forefront of nanomedicine. Their realistic finite temperature simulations are a formidable challenge for first-principles methods. Here, we use density…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-01 Hongsheng Liu , Cristiana Di Valentin

Magnonics is an emerging field widely considered as a paradigm shift in information technology that uses spin waves for data storage, processing and transmission. However, the coherent control of spin waves in 2D magnets still remains a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Sourav Dey , Gonzalo Rivero-Carracedo , Andrei Shumilin , Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero , José J. Baldoví

We review recent developments of formulations to calculate the Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya (DM) interaction from first principles. In particular, we focus on three approaches. The first one evaluates the energy change due to the spin twisting by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Takashi Koretsune , Toru Kikuchi , Ryotaro Arita

CoSi single crystal is a known realization of a chiral topological semimetal with simultaneously broken mirror and inversion symmetries. In addition to the symmetry-induced spin-orbit coupling, surface ferromagnetism is known in nominally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 V. D. Esin , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

In magnonics, an emerging branch of wave physics characterized by low-energy consumption, it is highly desirable to realize circuit elements within the scope of spin-wave computing. Here, based on numerical simulations, we demonstrate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Krzysztof Szulc , Piotr Graczyk , Michał Mruczkiewicz , Gianluca Gubbiotti , Maciej Krawczyk

We theoretically study the electronic structure and spin properties of one-dimensional nanostructures of the prototypical bulk topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$. Realistic models of experimentally observed Bi$_2$Se$_3$ nanowires and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 Naunidh Virk , Gabriel Autès , Oleg V. Yazyev

We present new mechanism for manipulation of the spin-wave amplitude through the use of the dynamic charge-mediated magnetoelectric effect in ultrathin multilayers composed of dielectric thin-film capacitors separated by a ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Piotr Graczyk , Maciej Krawczyk

The optical properties of a small magnetic cluster are studied in a magnetic version of Frank-Condon principle. This simple model is considered to show new basic physics and could be adopted to treat real problems. The energies and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Mahrous R. Ahmed , G. A. Gehring

Higher-dimensional Hilbert spaces in quantum simulation, as in all quantum science, expand the range of accessible phenomena. In this work, we experimentally realize a synthetic monopole using an ultracold spin-1 ensemble, where the…

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