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Optical control of magnetization is often symmetry-forbidden because electric fields and magnetization transform differently under inversion and time-reversal. However, through even-order nonlinear response, optical excitation can generate…

Altermagnets (AMs) are a recently identified class of unconventional collinear compensated antiferromagnets that exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This unconventional magnetic order gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 Bo Zhao , Fu Li , Wei Ren , Hao Wang , Hongbin Zhang

We propose a novel spin filter based on a graphene nanoring fabricated above a ferromagnetic strip. The exchange interaction between the magnetic moments of the ions in the ferromagnet and the electron spin splits the electronic states, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Javier Munárriz , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Pedro A. Orellana , Andrey V. Malyshev

Understanding the role of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has been crucial to controlling magnetic anisotropy in magnetic multilayer films. It has been shown that electronic structure can be altered via interface SOC by varying the superlattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-04 Alexander C. Bornstein , Benjamin J. Chapman , Nirmal J. Ghimire , David G. Mandrus , David S. Parker , Minhyea Lee

We investigate the non-resonant all-optical switching of magnetization. We treat the inverse Faraday effect (IFE) theoretically in terms of the spin-selective optical Stark effect for linearly or circularly polarized light. In the dilute…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

Perpendicular switching of a ferromagnet induced by spin torques is crucial for building high density spin-based memory and logic devices, where out-of-plane spin polarization ($\sigma_z$) has become a long sought-after goal for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Baiqing Jiang , Ziqian Cui , Hanying Zhang , Yuan Wang , C. Bi

Polarization, denoting the precession direction with respect to the background magnetization, is an intrinsic degree of freedom of spin wave. Using magnetic textures to control the spin wave polarization is fundamental and indispensable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Feiyang Ye , Jin Lan

Altermagnetism represents a novel class of collinear antiferromagnetism exhibiting non-relativistic spin splitting without net magnetization, driven by lattice symmetry rather than spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we introduce a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Diego López-Alcalá , Alberto M. Ruiz , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

Altermagnetism, featuring momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization, has attracted a growing interest for spintronics. We study a Fermi Hubbard model with altermagnetic order arising from the spin-anisotropic hopping near…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-20 Jianyu Li , Ji Liu , Xiaosen Yang , Ho-Kin Tang

We study the effects of electrostatic gating on the current-induced phenomena in ultrathin ferromagnet/heavy metal heterostructures. We utilize heterodyne detection and analysis of symmetry with respect to the direction of the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-16 Ronghua Liu , WengLee Lim , Sergei Urazhdin

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization, combining characteristics of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, making them highly interesting for spintronics applications. CrSb is a prime candidate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-02 Brahim Marfoua , Mohammad Amirabbasi , Marcus Ekholm

We consider electronic current transport through a ballistic one-dimensional quantum wire connected to two ferromagnetic leads. We study the effects of the spin-dependence of interfacial phase shifts (SDIPS) acquired by electrons upon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Cottet , T. Kontos , W. Belzig , C. Schonenberger , C. Bruder

Altermagnets are rapidly emerging as a highly promising platform for spintronics, yet dynamically controlling their spin responses remains a fundamental challenge. In this work, we demonstrate that introducing periodic optical driving and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Kai Chen , Jie Zhu

Altermagnets are colinear compensated magnets whose magnetic symmetries at zero spin-orbit coupling break spin degeneracy leading to spin-split electronic and magnonic bands that reflect an underlying multipolar order. When there is an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-15 P. A. McClarty , A. Gukasov , J. G. Rau

Net-zero-magnetization magnets are attracting significant research interest, driven by their potential for ultrahigh density and ultrafast performance. Among these materials, the altermagnets possess alternating spin-splitting band…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-01 San-Dong Guo

By associating a spin-orbit interaction with a non-Abelian gauge potential, we theoretically present a spin polarization in a quite general form using an effective Yang-Mills field and a usual electromagnetic field. In this gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Akihito Takeuchi , Naoto Nagaosa

Manipulating quantum state via electrostatic gating has been intriguing for many model systems in nanoelectronics. When it comes to the question of controlling the electron spins, more specifically, the magnetism of a system, tuning with…

Chiral molecular systems offer unique pathways to control spin and magnetism beyond conventional symmetry operations. Here, we demonstrate that chiral ionic liquids enable electric-field modulation of two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetism in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Hideki Matsuoka , Amaki Moriyama , Tomohiro Hori , Yoshinori Tokura , Yoshihiro Iwasa , Shu Seki , Masayuki Suda , Naoya Kanazawa

Motivated by recent developments on altermagnetism, we investigate the Hubbard model on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice, where the onsite repulsion between electrons induces the onset of a staggered magnetic order in which opposite magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-21 Francesco Ferrari , Roser Valenti

The generation of non-equilibrium electron spin polarization, spin transport, and spin detection are fundamental in many quantum devices. We demonstrate that a lattice of magnetic nanodots enhances the electron spin polarization in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Tim Anlauf , Marta Prada , Stefan Freercks , Bojan Bosnjak , Robert Frömter , Jonas Sichau , Hans Peter Oepen , Lars Tiemann , Robert H. Blick