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Antiferromagnetic spintronics focuses on investigating and using antiferromagnets as active elements in spintronics structures. Last decade advances in relativistic spintronics led to the discovery of the staggered, current-induced field in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Libor Šmejkal , Tomáš Jungwirth

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) presents a promising avenue for energy-efficient spintronics devices, surpassing the limitations of spin transfer torque. While extensively studied in heavy metals, SOT in antiferromagnetic quantum materials remains…

We propose a fractionally quantized polarization induced by interlayer sliding in bilayer altermagnets, unveiling a previously unrecognized multiferroic phase termed sliding fractional quantum multiferroicity (SFQM). This unconventional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-29 Jiajun Lu , Mu Tian , Chaoxi Cui , Zhi-Ming Yu , Run-Wu Zhang , Yugui Yao

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

The all-electrical realization of highly spin-polarized charge currents and their efficient conversion into pure spin currents remains a fundamental challenge in spintronics. Here, we report a spin-axis dynamic locking (SADL) effect in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-25 Lv Zhiheng , Cai Jiangtao , Ma Dengpan , Xing Yan , Liu Zhifeng

Anomalous Nernst effect (ANE), a widely investigated transverse thermoelectric effect that converts waste heat into electrical energy with remarkable flexibility and integration capability, has been extended to antiferromagnets with…

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

We study the current-induced torques in asymmetric magnetic tunnel junctions containing a conventional ferromagnet and a magnetic Weyl semimetal contact. The Weyl semimetal hosts chiral bulk states and topologically protected Fermi arc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 D. J. P. de Sousa , Fei Xue , J. P. Wang , P. M. Haney , Tony Low

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) have great benefits for spintronic applications such as high frequencies (up to THz), high speeds (up to tens of km/s) of magnetic excitations, and field-free operation. Advanced devices will require high-speed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Roman V. Ovcharov , B. A. Ivanov , Johan Åkerman , Roman S. Khymyn

The pinning and depinning of antiferromagnetic (AFM) domain wall is certainly the core issue of AFM spintronics. In this work, we study theoretically the N\'eel-type domain wall pinning and depinning at a notch in an antiferromagnetic (AFM)…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Z. Y. Chen , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

We study the penetration of an external magnetic field into a superconductor with collinear $d$-wave altermagnetic order. We demonstrate that instead of circular Abrikosov vortices, the magnetic field generates elliptical vortices with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-17 A. A. Mazanik , F. S. Bergeret

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

Angular momentum conservation has served as a guiding principle in the interplay between spin dynamics and mechanical rotations. However, in an antiferromagnet with vanishing magnetization, new fundamental rules are required to properly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-24 Ran Cheng , Xiaochuan Wu , Di Xiao

We report the theoretical investigation of noise spectrum of spin current and spin transfer torque for non-colinear spin polarized transport in a spin-valve device which consists of normal scattering region connected by two ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yunjin Yu , Hongxin Zhan , Langhui Wan , Bin Wang , Yadong Wei , Qingfeng Sun , Jian Wang

We theoretically investigate possible effects of electric current on the spin wave dynamics for the N\'{e}el-type antiferromagnetic order in a honeycomb lattice. Based on a general vector decomposition of the spin polarization of conduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Yong Wang , Wang Yao

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) hold promise for applications in digital logic. However, switching AFM domains is challenging, as magnetic fields do not couple to the bulk antiferromagnetic order parameter. Here we show that magnetic-field-driven…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 Sophie F. Weber , Veronika Sunko

Antiferromagnetic materials have great potential for spintronic applications at terahertz (THz) frequencies. However, in contrast to ferromagnets, experimental studies of antiferromagnets are often challenging due to a lack of…

Harnessing the unique properties of non-collinear antiferromagnets (AFMs) will be essential for exploiting the full potential of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Indeed, many of the effects enabling ferromagnetic spintronic devices have a…

Control of magnetic order in antiferromagnets is a central challenge in the development of next-generation spintronic devices. Here, we propose and analyze magnetization switching driven by the field-derivative torque, a torque that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-22 Pratyay Mukherjee , Ritwik Mondal

In order to detect the N\'{e}el vector of an altermagnet, we investigate topological phases in a bilayer system composed of an altermagnet and a two-dimensional topological insulator described by the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Motohiko Ezawa