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A class of antiferromagnets with spin-polarized electron bands, yet zero net magnetization, called altermagnets is attracting increasing attention due to their potential use in spintronics. Here, we study spin injection into an altermagnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Chi Sun , Jacob Linder

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This enables a spin-splitter effect in which an external electric field generates transverse spin currents by separating oppositely polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sanjay Sarkar , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

Electronic spin current is convertible to magnonic spin current via the creation or annihilation of thermal magnons at the interface of a magnetic insulator and a metal with a strong spin-orbital coupling. So far this phenomenon was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Xi-guang Wang , Zhi-xiong Li , Zhen-wei Zhou , Yao-zhuang Nie , Qing-lin Xia , Zhong-ming Zeng , L. Chotorlishvili , J. Berakdar , Guang-hua Guo

Efficient magnetic switching is a cornerstone for advancing spintronics, particularly for energy-efficient data storage and memory devices. Here, we report the electrical switching of spin-flips in V-doped WSe2 multilayers, a van der Waals…

We investigate the charge and spin transport in half-metallic ferromagnet ($F$) and superconductor ($S$) nanojunctions. We utilize a self-consistent microscopic method that can accommodate the broad range of energy scales present, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-06 Chien-Te Wu , Klaus Halterman

We study the nonlinear magnon spin current induced by an ac electric field under light irradiation in collinear antiferromagnets with broken inversion symmetry. For linearly polarized light, we find that a dc spin current appears through…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-03 Kosuke Fujiwara , Sota Kitamura , Takahiro Morimoto

Designing two-dimensional (2D) Rashba semiconductors, exploring the underlying mechanism of Rashba effect, and further proposing efficient and controllable approaches are crucial for the development of spintronics. On the basis of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Haipeng Wu , Qikun Tian , Jinghui Wei , Ziyu Xing , Guangzhao Qin , Zhenzhen Qin

Altermagnets constitute an emerging materials platform for spintronic technologies by combining compensated magnetic order with ferromagnet-like spin-split electronic bands. Here, we investigate the proposed d-wave altermagnetic material…

In semiconductor spintronic devices, the semiconductor is usually lightly doped and nondegenerate, and moderate electric fields can dominate the carrier motion. We recently derived a drift-diffusion equation for spin polarization in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Yu , M. E. Flatte

Conversion of thermal energy into magnonic spin currents and/or effective electric polarization promises new device functionalities. A versatile approach is presented here for generating and controlling open circuit magnonic spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Xi-guang Wang , L. Chotorlishvili , Guang-hua Guo , J. Berakdar

Altermagnets (AM) are a recently discovered third class of collinear magnets, distinctly different from conventional ferromagnets (FM) and antiferromagnets (AF). AM have been actively researched in the last few years, but two aspects so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Igor Mazin , Rafael González-Hernández , Libor Šmejkal

Generating coherent magnon spin currents with the highest frequencies and shortest wavelengths is a key challenge in ultrafast spintronics and magnonics. A promising route is to excite counter-propagating magnon pairs. In antiferromagnets,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Torstein Hegstad , Johan H. Mentink

Net-zero-magnetization magnets have garnered intensive research attention due to their ultradense and ultrafast potential. In terms of the symmetric classification of connecting magnetic atoms with opposite spin polarization, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-14 San-Dong Guo , Xiao-Shu Guo , Guangzhao Wang

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

Altermagnets represent a new class of magnetic phases without net magnetization that are invariant under a combination of rotation and time reversal. Unlike conventional collinear antiferromagnets (AFM), altermagnets could lead to new…

Inspired by recent theoretical proposal on the interesting piezomagnetism and C-paired valley polarization in V2Se2O monolayer, we predict a stable antiferromagnetic Janus monolayer V2SeTeO with altermagnetic configuration using density…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-02 Yu Zhu , Taikang Chen , Yongchang Li , Lei Qiao , Xiaonan Ma , Tao Hu , Heng Gao , Wei Ren

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

Altermagnets, a recently discovered class of magnetic materials exhibiting ferromagnetic-like spin-split bands and antiferromagnetic-like compensated magnetic order, have attracted significant interest for next-generation spintronic…

We demonstrate a spin diode consisting of a semiconductor free nano-scale Fe/MgO-based double tunnel junction. The device exhibits a near perfect spin-valve effect combined with a strong diode effect. The mechanism consistent with our data…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Iovan , S. Andersson , Yu. G. Naidyuk , A. Vedyaev , B. Dieny , V. Korenivski

In this work, we show that a giant spin current can be injected into a nodal topological superconductor, using a normal paramagnetic lead, through a large number of zero energy Majorana fermions at the superconductor edge. The giant spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-09 Noah F. Q. Yuan , Yao Lu , James J. He , K. T. Law