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Altermagnets, a recently identified class of magnetic materials, possess a spin-split Fermi surface that results in the so-called spin splitter effect, enabling the generation of a spin current transverse to the injection direction and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

This article explores the deep interconnections among three seemingly unrelated concepts in condensed matter physics: electronic liquid crystal phases, multipole expansions, and altermagnetism. At the heart of these phenomena lies a shared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-13 Zhao Liu , Hui Hu , Xia-Ji Liu

Conventional spintronic mechanisms, such as spin-transfer and spin-orbit torques based on the spin current, rely on breaking time-reversal symmetry to manipulate magnetic moments. In contrast, for spatially separated dual spin currents, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Gengchen Meng Qi Sun , Zhicheng Xie , Yumin Yang , Yu Zhang , Na Lei , Dahai Wei

The synergy of ferroicity with altermagnetism offers a novel platform for designing multifunctional altermagnetic-spintronic device technology. In this work, we propose a mechanism to achieve nonvolatile electrical manipulation of spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-12 Rui Peng , Guangxu Su , Yangyang Fan , Jiaan Li , Fanxin Liu , Yee Sin Ang

Electrical manipulation of spin textures inside antiferromagnets represents a new opportunity for developing spintronics with superior speed and high device density. Injecting spin currents into antiferromagnets and realizing efficient…

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

We theoretically investigate spin dependent transport in ferromagnetic/normal metal/ferromagnetic single electron transistors by applying master equation calculations using a two dimensional space of states involving spin and charge degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Watson Kuo , C. D. Chen

The spin dynamics of electrons in chiral molecular systems remain a topic of intense interest, particularly regarding whether geometric chirality inherently induces spin polarization in current-carrying electrons. In this work, we employ ab…

The ultimate goal of spintronics is achieving electrically controlled coherent manipulation of the electron spin at room temperature to enable devices such as spin field-effect transistors. With conventional materials, coherent spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Josep Ingla-Aynés , Franz Herling , Jaroslav Fabian , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

We study ballistic transport through semiconductor quantum point contact systems under different confinement geometries and applied fields. In particular, we investigate how the {\em lateral} spin-orbit coupling, introduced by asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Anh T. Ngo , P. Debray , Sergio Ulloa

Altermagnetism, a new phase of collinear spin-order sharing similarities with antiferromagnets and ferromagnets, has introduced a new guiding principle for spintronic/thermoelectric applications due to its direction-dependent magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Samuele Giuli , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Massimo Capone

Altermagnets demonstrate significant potential in spintronics due to their unique non-relativistic spin-splitting properties, yet altermagnetic devices still face challenges in efficiently switching logic states. Here, we report…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-17 Yunfei Gao , Aolin Li , Zesen Fu , Bei Zhang , Haiming Duan , Fangping Ouyang

We show that an initially unpolarized electron flow acquires spin polarization after passing through a lateral barrier in two-dimensional (2D) system with spin-orbit interaction (SOI) even if the current is directed normally to the barrier.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-26 Yurii Ya. Tkach , Vladimir A. Sablikov , Aleksei A. Sukhanov

The lateral current-induced spin polarization in InGaN/GaN superlattices (SLs) without an applied magnetic field is reported. The fact that the sign of the nonequilibrium spin changes as the current reverses and is opposite for the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. J. Chang , T. W. Chen , J. W. Chen , W. C. Hong , W. C. Tsai , Y. F. Chen , G. Y. Guo

Altermagnets, a newly discovered class of magnets, integrate the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, such as enabling anomalous transport without stray fields and supporting ultrafast spin dynamics, offering exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Xian-Peng Zhang , Run-Wu Zhang , Xiaolong Fan , Wanxiang Feng , Xiangrong Wang , Yugui Yao

Employing electron spin instead of charge to develop spintronic devices holds the merits of low-power consumption in information technologies. Meanwhile, the demand for increasing speed in spintronics beyond current CMOS technology has…

The inductance of spintronic devices that transport charge neutral spin currents is discussed. It is known that in a media that contains charge neutral spins, a time-varying electric field induces a spin current. We show that since the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Wei Chen

Engineering and controlling heat and spin transport on the femtosecond time-scale in spintronic devices opens up new ways to manipulate magnetization with unprecedented speed. Yet the underlying reversal mechanisms remain poorly understood…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Harjinder Singh , Alberto Anadón , Junta Igarashi , Quentin Remy , Stéphane Mangin , Michel Hehn , Jon Gorchon , Gregory Malinowski

Spintronics aims to exploit the spin degree of freedom in solid state devices for data storage and information processing technologies. The fundamental spintronic device concepts such as creation, manipulation and detection of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 André Dankert , Saroj P. Dash

Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this subject, including both recent advances and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma