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Nonlinearity of magneto-dynamics is typically described by a single constant, $\mathcal{N}$, with positive and negative values indicating repulsion and attraction of magnons, respectively. In thin magnetic films with easy-plane magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Mykola Dvornik , Johan Åkerman

Current induced spin-orbit torques driven by the conventional spin Hall effect are widely used to manipulate the magnetization. This approach, however, is nondeterministic and inefficient for the switching of magnets with perpendicular…

The paper investigates the influence of the magnetic field on the behavior of 180-degree domain boundaries in a uniaxial ferromagnetic film with inhomogeneous magnetoelectric interaction. It is shown that, depending on the magnitude and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-24 Robert Vakhitov , Rostislav Solonetskiy , Alina Nizyamova

Strain manipulation of the magnetic domains, such as the stripe domains and skyrmions, has attracted considerable attention because of its potential applications for magnetic logic and memory devices. Here, utilizing phase-field modeling,…

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetoelectric multiferroics are promising multifunctional materials for miniaturized logic and memory devices. Herein, we explore the effectiveness of strain-engineering for tuning the properties of a recently…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-24 Akshay Mahajan , Somnath Bhowmick

Due to the lack of a net magnetic moment, antiferromagnets possess a unique robustness to external magnetic fields and are thus predicted to play an important role in future magnetic technologies. However, this robustness also makes them…

We show that, under the effect of an external magnetic field, a photogalvanic effect and the generation of second harmonic wave can be induced in inversion-symmetric and time reversal invariant Dirac semimetals. The mechanism responsible of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-12 Alberto Cortijo

Using ab initio methods based on the density functional theory we show that rotated graphene bilayers at angles different from the magic ones can have an electronic spectrum similar to those by applying moderate external pressures. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Felix Yndurain

Synthetic ferrimagnets are an attractive materials class for spintronics as they provide access to all-optical switching of magnetization and, at the same time, allow for ultrafast domain wall motion at angular momentum compensation. In…

Charge-spin conversion phenomena such as the spin Hall effect allow for the excitation of magnons in a magnetic layer by passing an electric current in an adjacent nonmagnetic conductor. We demonstrate that this current-induced modification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Paul Noël , Richard Schlitz , Emir Karadža , Charles-Henri Lambert , Luca Nessi , Federico Binda , Pietro Gambardella

The desire to perform information processing, computation, communication, signal generation and related tasks, while dissipating as little energy as possible, has inspired many ideas and paradigms. One of the most powerful among them is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Jayasimha Atulasimha , Anjan Barman

Recently, nonlinear responses have been actively studied in both experiments and theory. Particularly interesting are inversion-symmetry broken systems, where an even-order nonlinear electrical conductivity can be nonzero, resulting in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-22 Koki Shinada , Robert Peters

Recent years have seen tremendous progress in experimental techniques to create uniaxial strain. Motivated by these advances we investigate the effect of uniaxial strain on LaMnO$_3$ employing ab-initio dynamical mean-field theory, and put…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-23 Florian P. Lindner , Markus Aichhorn , Hrishit Banerjee

The paper investigates the behavior of 0 degree domain boundaries arising in uniaxial magnetic films with flexomagnetoelectric effect in a magnetic field. It is shown that at certain orientations of the magnetic field, it is possible to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-04 Robert Vakhitov , Rostislav Solonetsky , Alina Ibragimova

Strain-coupled magnetoelectric (ME) phenomena in piezoelectric / ferromagnetic thin-film bilayers are a promising paradigm for sensors and information storage devices, where strain is utilized to manipulate the magnetization of the…

Coherent light-matter interactions have recently extended their applications to the ultrafast control of magnetization in solids. An important but unrealized technique is the manipulation of magnetization vector motion to make it follow an…

Nanoscale heterostructure design can control laser-induced heat dissipation and strain propagation as well as their efficiency for driving magnetization precession. We use insulating MgO layers incorporated into metallic Pt-Cu-Ni…

We prepared Ga0.95Mn0.05As films on top of periodic arrays of InAs quantum dots. X-ray diffraction reveals periodically strained films, commensurate to substrate's patterning. The dots produce a tensile strain in GaMnAs while between the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-26 X. Marti , T. Cechal , L. Horak , V. Novak , K. Hruska , Z. Vyborny , T. Jungwirth , V. Holy

Current-driven magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic metals are studied in a self-consistent adiabatic local-density approximation in the presence of spin-conserving and spin-dephasing impurity scattering. Based on a quantum kinetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Hans Joakim Skadsem , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The inherent flexibility of two dimensional materials allows for efficient manipulation of their physical properties through strain application, which is essential for the development of advanced nanoscale devices. This study aimed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-28 Aytac Celik