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Manipulating spin in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials has great potential in AFM opto-spintronics. Laser pulses can induce a transient ferromagnetic (FM) state in AFM metallic systems, but have never been proven in two-dimensional (2D) AFM…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-11 Shuo Li , Junjie He , Thomas Frauenheim

Surface plasmons are the collective electron excitations in metallic systems and the associated electromagnetic wave usually has the transverse magnetic (TM) polarization. On the other hand, spin waves are the spin excitations perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 H. Y. Yuan , Yaroslav M. Blanter , H. Q. Lin

The recent discovery of spin-current transmission through antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulating materials opens up unprecedented opportunities for fundamental physics and spintronics applications. The great mystery currently surrounding this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Q. Li , M. Yang , C. Klewe , P. Shafer , A. T. N'Diaye , D. Hou , T. Y. Wang , N. Gao , E. Saitoh , C. Hwang , R. J. Hicken , J. Li , E. Arenholz , Z. Q. Qiu

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

Domain wall motion underpins emerging spintronic technologies, such as high-speed racetrack devices and THz logic, and accelerating walls quickly is a key challenge on the path to faster devices. Recent experimental advances introduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 P. Diona , S. Artyukhin , L. Maranzana

A central goal in spintronics and magnonics is the use of spin waves rather than electrons for efficient information processing. The key to integrate such spintronic circuits with electronic circuits is the ability to inject, control and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 J. S. Harms , H. Y. Yuan , Rembert A. Duine

We report on coherent propagation of antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin waves over a long distance ($\sim$10 $\mu$m) at room temperature in a canted AFM $\alpha$-Fe$_2$O$_3$ with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Unprecedented high…

Antiferromagnetic materials could represent the future of spintronic applications thanks to the numerous interesting features they combine: they are robust against perturbation due to magnetic fields, produce no stray fields, display…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-20 V. Baltz , A. Manchon , M. Tsoi , T. Moriyama , T. Ono , Y. Tserkovnyak

Since Felix Bloch's introduction of the concept of spin waves in 1930, magnons (the quanta of spin waves) have been extensively studied in a range of materials for spintronics, particularly for non-volatile logic-in-memory devices.…

The unique functionalities of antiferromagnets offer promising routes to advance information technology. Their compensated magnetic order leads to spin resonances in the THz-regime, which suggest the possibility to coherently control…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 Christian Tzschaschel , Takuya Satoh , Manfred Fiebig

Antiferromagnetic (AF) compounds possess distinct characteristics that render them promising candidates for advancing the application of spin degrees of freedom in computational devices. For instance, AF materials exhibit minimal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-17 A. R. Moura

We analyze the dynamics of a domain wall in an easy-axis antiferromagnet driven by circularly polarized magnons. Magnons pass through a stationary domain wall without reflection and thus exert no force on it. However, they reverse their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-10 Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Oleg Tchernyshyov

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) van der Waals (vdW) materials provide a novel platform for synthetic AFM spintronics, in which the spin-related functionalities are derived from manipulating spin configurations between the layers. Metallic vdW…

Spin wave and magnetic domain wall are two of basic excitations in magnetic systems, and their spatiotemporal interplay encodes rich information of underlying magnetic interactions. In synthetic antiferromagnets, the domain wall acquires an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jin Lan , Yang Zhang

Spin waves in magnetic materials are promising information carriers for future computing technologies due to their ultra-low energy dissipation and long coherence length. Antiferromagnets are strong candidate materials due, in part, to…

We theoretically study field-induced domain wall (DW) motion in an electrically insulating ferromagnet with hard- and easy-axis anisotropies. DWs can propagate along a dissipationless wire through spin wave emission locked into the known…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 X. S. Wang , P. Yan , Y. H. Shen , G. E. W. Bauer , X. R. Wang

Spin waves in antiferromagnets are linearly or circularly polarized. Depending on the polarization, traversing spin waves alter the staggered field in a qualitatively different way. We calculate the drift velocity of a moving domain wall as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Erlend Grytli Tveten , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Arne Brataas

In this work, we study the microwave field driven antiferromagnetic domain wall motion in an antiferromagnetic nanowire, using the numerical calculations based on a classical Heisenberg spin model. We show that a proper combination of a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Z. Y. Chen , Z. R. Yan , Y. L. Zhang , M. H. Qin , Z. Fan , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , J. M. Liu

Excitation of coherent high-frequency magnons (quanta of spin waves) is critical to the development of high-speed magnonic devices. Here we computationally demonstrate the excitation of coherent sub-terahertz (THz) magnons in ferromagnetic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Shihao Zhuang , Jia-Mian Hu

Domain wall (DW) devices have garnered recent interest for diverse applications including memory, logic, and neuromorphic primitives; fast, accurate device models are therefore imperative for large-scale system design and verification.…