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Broken inversion symmetry at the surfaces of centrosymmetric collinear antiferromagnets lifts combined inversion and time-reversal symmetry ($PT$) and can, in principle, enable nonrelativistic d-wave spin splitting, termed surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Ersoy Sasioglu , Ingrid Mertig , Samir Lounis

The asymmetric magnetization reversal is studied in a single exchange-biased microbar of 1.5 x 13 micrometer with anisotropic magnetoresistance and magnetic force microscopy. The particle has a moment of less than 10^-9 emu and is not…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Gredig , M. Tondra

Recently discovered altermagnets provide a physical realization of an unconventional compensated magnetic phases with a higher partial-wave type of ordering, reminiscent of unconventional superfluid phases. Their stability under normal…

The recent discovery of altermagnetism has sparked growing interest in compensated magnetic systems as promising platforms for highly scalable spintronics. Altermagnetism is a distinct magnetic order where opposite spin sublattices are…

In a ferromagnetic heterostructure, the interplay between a Rashba spin-orbit coupling and an exchange field gives rise to a current-driven spin torque. In a realistic device setup, we investigate the Rashba spin torque in the diffusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Christian Ortiz Pauyac , Xuhui Wang , Mairbek Chshiev , Aurelien Manchon

We study an unique form of metallic ferromagnetism in which orbital moments surpasses the role of spin moments in shaping the overall magnetization. This system emerges naturally upon doping a topologically non-trivial Chern band in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Mainak Das , Chunli Huang

Topological aspects in altermagnets have come into focus recently, and tuning the antiferromagnetic (AFM) state into an altermagnetic phase remains an active frontier. We realize both within a rutile superlattice here in this paper. With…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-29 Wanfei Shan , Qun Yang , Prineha Narang

We demonstrate the spontaneous reversal of spin chirality in a single crystal sample of the intermetallic magnet EuAl$_4$. We solve the nanoscopic nature of each of the four magnetically phases of EuAl$_4$ using resonant magnetic x-ray…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-18 A. M. Vibhakar , D. D. Khalyavin , F. Orlandi , J. M. Moya , S. Lei , E. Morosan , A. Bombardi

Most of the half-Heusler RPtBi compounds (R=rare earth) host various surface states due to spin-orbit coupling driven topological band structure. While recent ARPES measurements ubiquitously reported the existence of surface states in…

Magnetism is one of the largest, most fundamental, and technologically most relevant fields of condensed-matter physics. Traditionally, two basic magnetic phases have been considered -- ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. The breaking of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

Characterized by the absence of inversion symmetry, non-centrosymmetric materials are of great interest because they exhibit ferroelectricity, second harmonic generation, emergent Weyl fermions, and other fascinating phenomena. It is…

Here we follow, both experimentally and theoretically, the development of magnetism in Tb clusters from the atomic limit, adding one atom at a time. The exchange interaction is, surprisingly, observed to drastically increase compared to…

Van der Waals (vdW) magnetic heterostructures offer a versatile platform for engineering interfacial spin interactions with atomic precision, enabling nontrivial spin textures and dynamic behaviors. In this work, we report robust asymmetric…

A newly identified class of magnetic materials called altermagnets has attracted much attention due to the practical properties of spin-splitting bands akin to ferromagnets and small compensated magnetization akin to antiferromagnets. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-08 Seiji Aota , Masaaki Tanaka

New experimental data are presented on the scan rate dependence of the magnetization hysteresis width $\Delta M(H)$ ($\propto$ critical current density $J_c(H)$) in isothermal $M-H$ scans in a weakly pinned single crystal of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Sarkar , A. D. Thakur , C. V. Tomy , G. Balakrishnan , D. McK. Paul , S. Ramakrishnan , A. K. Grover

The characterization and manipulation of deposited magnetic clusters or molecules on surfaces is a prerequisite for their future utilization. In recent years techniques like spin-flip inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-25 H. -T. Langwald , J. Schnack

Gaining growing attention in spintronics is a class of magnets displaying zero net magnetization and spin-split electronic bands called altermagnets. Here, by combining density functional theory and symmetry analysis, we show that RuF$_4$…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-19 Marko Milivojević , Marko Orozović , Silvia Picozzi , Martin Gmitra , Srdjan Stavrić

We have studied the angular dependence of the irreversible magnetization and its time relaxation in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$ single crystals with one or two families of columnar defects inclined with respect to the c-axis. At high magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Silhanek , D. Niebieskikwiat , L. Civale , M. A. Avila , O. Billoni , D. Casa

Chirality is a fundamental organizing principle of correlated and topological states. In quantum magnets, chirality arises from the geometric twisting of spins and serves as an emergent source of Berry curvature and quantum metrics.…

Layered magnetic materials are becoming a major platform for future spin-based applications. Particularly the air-stable van der Waals compound CrSBr is attracting considerable interest due to its prominent magneto-transport and…