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A surface antisymmetry group framework is developed to establish design rules for deterministic electrical switching of the N\'eel vector in a film of a collinear bipartite antiferromagnet. In centrosymmetric altermagnets, where…

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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…

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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…

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Anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) offers a robust electrical readout of antiferromagnetic (AFM) states, playing a central role in the rapidly advancing field of AFM spintronics. Despite its great versatility, electrical probing of the…

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Altermagnets host chirally split magnons that promise unique functionalities for information processing. However, their distinctive transport signatures, crucial for experimental identification and manipulation, remain elusive. Here, we…

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We theoretically and numerically study the terahertz auto oscillations in thin-film metallic non-collinear coplanar antiferromagnets (AFMs), such as $\mathrm{Mn_{3}Sn}$ and $\mathrm{Mn_{3}Ir}$, under the effect of anti-damping spin-torque…

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Light-matter interaction has become one of the promising routes to manipulating various physical feature of quantum materials in an ultrafast kinetics. In this work, we focus on the nonlinear optical effects of the spintronic behavior in…

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Two-dimensional antiferromagnets, combining the dual advantages of van der Waals (vdW) and antiferromagnetic materials, provide an unprecedented platform for exploring emergent spin-related phenomena. However, electrical manipulation of…

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Ferromagnetic spin-valves and tunneling junctions are crucial for spintronics applications and are one of the most fundamental spintronics devices. Motivated by the potential unique advantages of antiferromagnets for spintronics, we…

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Electric currents carrying a net spin polarization are widely used in spintronics, whereas globally spin-neutral currents are expected to play no role in spin-dependent phenomena. Here we show that, in contrast to this common expectation,…

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Effects manifesting quantum geometry have been a focus of physics research. Here, we reveal that quantum metric plays a crucial role in nonlinear electric spin response, leading to a quantum metric spin-orbit torque. We argue that enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Xukun Feng , Weikang Wu , Hui Wang , Weibo Gao , Lay Kee Ang , Y. X. Zhao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

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…

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Recent discoveries regarding current-induced spin-orbit torques produced by heavy-metal/ferromagnet and topological-insulator/ferromagnet bilayers provide the potential for dramatically-improved efficiency in the manipulation of magnetic…

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