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Altermagnets are a newly discovered class of magnetic phases that combine the spin polarization behavior of ferromagnetic band structures with the vanishing net magnetization characteristic of antiferromagnets. Initially proposed for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Mengli Hu , Oleg Janson , Claudia Felser , Paul McClarty , Jeroen van den Brink , Maia G. Vergniory

We propose a novel ferroelectric switchable altermagnetism effect, the reversal of ferroelectric polarization is coupled to the switching of altermagnetic spin splitting. We demonstrate the design principles for the ferroelectric…

Magnetoelectric coupling is vital for exploring fundamental science and driving the development of high-density memory and energy-efficient spintronic devices. Altermagnets, which merge the benefits of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Pengqiang Dong , Hanbo Sun , Chao Wu , Ping Li

In transition-metal dichalcogenides, electrons in the K-valleys can experience both Ising and Rashba spin-orbit couplings. In this work, we show that the coexistence of Ising and Rashba spin-orbit couplings leads to a special type of valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Benjamin T. Zhou , Katsuhisa Taguchi , Yuki Kawaguchi , Yukio Tanaka , K. T. Law

Recent experiments have realized steady-state electrical injection of interlayer excitons in electron-hole bilayers subject to a large bias voltage. In the ideal case in which interlayer tunneling is negligibly weak, the system is in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Yongxin Zeng , Valentin Crépel , Andrew J. Millis

3-D topological insulators (TI) with large spin Hall conductivity have emerged as potential candidates for spintronic applications. Here, we report spin to charge conversion in bilayers of amorphous ferromagnet (FM) Fe_{78}Ga_{13}B_{9}…

The antiferromagnetic (AFM) CrI$_3$ bilayer is a particularly interesting representative of van der Waals 2D semiconductors, which are currently being studied for their magnetism and for their potential in spintronics. Using ab initio…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-06 Sukanya Ghosh , Natasa Stojic , Nadia Binggeli

Interlayer sliding, together with twist angle, is a crucial parameter that defines the atomic registry and thus determines the properties of two-dimensional (2D) material homobilayers. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jie Pan , Huanhuan Wang , Lin Zou , Xiaoyu Wang , Lihao Zhang , Xueyan Dong , Haibo Xie , Yi Ding , Yuze Zhang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Shuxi Wang , Zhe Wang

Studying the influence of breaking time-reversal symmetry on topological insulator surface states is an important problem of current interest in condensed matter physics and could provide a route toward proof-of-concept spintronic devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Joon Sue Lee , Anthony Richardella , Robert D. Fraleigh , Chao-xing Liu , Weiwei Zhao , Nitin Samarth

We present experimental results on the conversion of a spin current into a charge current by spin pumping into the Dirac cone with helical spin polarization of the elemental topological insulator (TI) {\alpha}-Sn[1-3]. By angle-resolved…

We study the combined effects of spin transfer torque, voltage modulation of interlayer exchange coupling and magnetic anisotropy on the switching behavior of perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs). In asymmetric p-MTJs, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-19 D. J. P. de Sousa , P. M. Haney , D. L. Zhang , J. P. Wang , Tony Low

We consider thermoelectric transport properties of the edge states of a two dimensional topological insulator in a double quantum point contact geometry coupled to two thermally biased reservoirs. Both spin-preserving and spin-flipping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Flavio Ronetti , Luca Vannucci , Giacomo Dolcetto , Matteo Carrega , Maura Sassetti

Janus dichalcogenide multilayers provide a paradigmatic platform to engineer electronic phenomena dominated by spin-orbit coupling. Their unique spin-orbit effects stem from local mirror symmetry breaking in each layer, which induces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 D. Soriano , J. L. Lado

We apply a circularly and linearly polarized terahertz field on a monolayer of graphene taking into account spin-orbit interactions of the intrinsic and Rashba type. It turns out that the field can not only be used to induce a gap in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Andreas Scholz , Alexander López , John Schliemann

Understanding the mechanism driving magnetization switching in spin-orbit-torque-assisted devices remains a subject of debate. While originally attributed to the spin Hall effect and spin Rashba-Edelstein effect, recent discoveries related…

We analyze the phase diagram of multilayer-graphene sandwiched between identical transition metal dichalcogenides. Recently realized in all van-der-Wall heterostructures, these sandwiches induce sizable (1-15 meV) spin orbit coupling in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Michael P. Zaletel , Jun Yong Khoo

We study the room-temperature electrical control of charge and spin transport in high-quality bilayer graphene, fully encapsulated with hBN and contacted via 1D spin injectors. We show that spin transport in this device architecture is…

Since the recent experimental realization of synthetic Rashba spin-orbit coupling paved a new avenue for exploring and engineering topological phases in ultracold atoms, a precise, solid detection of Berry phase has been desired for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-29 Junpeng Hou , Xi-Wang Luo , Kuei Sun , Chuanwei Zhang

We develop the non-Hermitian counterpart of a new class of collinear magnets, dubbed altermagnets, delineated by net zero magnetization with momentum-dependent spin-splitting bands. The application of an imaginary gauge field in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Gaurab Kumar Dash , Subhasis Panda , Snehasish Nandy

The quasiclassical dynamics is studied for charge carriers moving on the surface of 3D topological insulator of Bi2Te3 type and subjected to static magnetic field. The effects connected to the symmetry changes of electron isoenergetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , R. V. Turkevich