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All-optical generation of pure spin current -- the flow of spin in the absence of a corresponding charge flow -- relies on a symmetry based compensation of valley charge. The 2d $d$-wave altermagnets, ideal spintronics materials due to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-15 Deepika Gill , Ruikai Wu , Peter Elliott , Sangeeta Sharma , Sam Shallcross

Spin accumulation is a crucial but imprecise concept in spintronics. In metal-based spintronics it is characterized in terms of semiclassical distribution functions. In semiconductors with a strong spin-orbit coupling the spin accumulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-10 Henri Saarikoski , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Polarization is a key ingredient of all waves, including the electromagnetic wave, the acoustic wave, as well as the spin wave. Due to the fixed ferromagnetic order, the spin wave in ferromagnet is limited to the right circular…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-30 Jin Lan , Weichao Yu , Jiang Xiao

In spite of the absence of a macroscopic magnetic moment, an anti-ferromagnet is spin-polarized on an atomic scale. The electric current passing through a conducting anti-ferromagnet is polarized as well, leading to spin-transfer torques…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 Yuan Xu , Shuai Wang , Ke Xia

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

Altermagnets offer a promising platform for dissipationless spin transport by combining zero net magnetization with spontaneous non-relativistic spin splitting. However, their magnonic transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Sankar Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We study spin mixing dynamics in a chromium dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate, after tilting the atomic spins by an angle $\theta$ with respect to the magnetic field. Spin mixing is triggered by dipolar coupling, but, once dynamics has…

Altermagnets are a recently identified class of collinear antiferromagnets that host large spin-split electronic bands, offering a promising platform for efficient spin-current generation. Among proposed candidates, the metallic oxide RuO2…

Understanding and mitigating decoherence is a key challenge for quantum science and technology. The main source of decoherence for solid-state spin systems is the uncontrolled spin bath environment. Here, we demonstrate quantum control of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 G. de Lange , T. van der Sar , M. S. Blok , Z. H. Wang , V. V. Dobrovitski , R. Hanson

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

The occurrence of a finite mismatch between the up and down spin energy channels due to the application of an electric field, leading to the generation of a polarized spin current from an unpolarized beam in antiferromagnetic materials, has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Suparna Sarkar , Santanu K. Maiti

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging research field whose focus is on the electrical and optical control of the antiferromagnetic order parameter and its utility in information technology devices. An example of recently discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

Finding efficient and ultrafast ways to control antiferromagnets is believed to be instrumental in unlocking their potential for magnetic devices operating at THz frequencies. Still, it is challenged by the absence of net magnetization in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-08 T. G. H. Blank , K. A. Grishunin , B. A. Ivanov , E. A. Mashkovich , D. Afanasiev , A. V. Kimel

We study the decoherence of a spin in a quantum dot due to its hyperfine coupling to a randomly fluctuating bath of nuclear spins. The system is modelled by the central spin model with the spin bath initially being at infinite temperature.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Alexandre Faribault , Dirk Schuricht

Spintronics has advanced through discoveries of various electrically-driven spin dynamics in nanomagnets. Here, we report a novel switching dynamics of spin systems driven by spin-orbit torque, using a noncollinear antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yuma Sato , Yutaro Takeuchi , Yuta Yamane , Shun Kanai , Shunsuke Fukami

We review the conditions that cause or prohibit non-relativistic spin splitting of the energy bands in antiferromagnets. We propose that the existence of spin splitting in magnetically ordered systems is the default scenario and outline the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-20 Nicola A. Spaldin , Sang-Wook Cheong , Sinead Griffin

Antiferromagnetic insulators can become active spintronics components by controlling and detecting their dynamics via spin currents in adjacent metals. This cross-talk occurs via spin-transfer and spin-pumping, phenomena that have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Arne Brataas , Hans Skarsvåg , Erlend G. Tveten , Eirik Løhaugen Fjærbu

Altermagnets have been identified as the third category of magnetic materials, exhibiting momentum-dependent spin splitting characterized by even powers of momentum. In this study, we show that when subjected to elliptically polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Qiang Li

Coupling between conduction electrons and localized magnetization is responsible for a variety of phenomena in spintronic devices. This coupling enables to generate spin currents from dynamical magnetization. Due to the nonlinearity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Takaharu Tashiro , Saki Matsuura , Akiyo Nomura , Shun Watanabe , Keehoon Kang , Henning Sirringhaus , Kazuya Ando

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization. Direct observation of the characteristic altermagnetic spin splitting, however, remains challenging. Indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Arsen Herasymchuk , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder , E. V. Gorbar , Pavlo Sukhachov