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Spin current offers a promising route toward energy-efficient and high-speed information processing. Developing efficient methods for their generation remains a central challenge in spintronics. Here, we investigate spin current generation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Aoi Kajihara , Shun Okumura , Yukitoshi Motome

An important vision of modern magnetic research is to use antiferromagnets as controllable and active ultrafast components in spintronic devices. Hematite is a promising model material in this respect because its pronounced…

Pure spin currents transport angular momentum without an associated charge flow. This unique property makes them attractive for spintronics applications, such as torque induced magnetization control in nanodevices that can be used for…

Although the development of spintronic devices has advanced significantly over the past decade with the use of ferromagnetic materials, the extensive implementation of such devices has been limited by the notable drawbacks of these…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-04 Kang Wang , Vineetha Bheemarasetty , Junhang Duan , Shiyu Zhou , Gang Xiao

The occurrence of a finite mismatch between the up and down spin energy channels due to the application of an electric field, leading to the generation of a polarized spin current from an unpolarized beam in antiferromagnetic materials, has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Suparna Sarkar , Santanu K. Maiti

Antiferromagnetic spintronics focuses on investigating and using antiferromagnets as active elements in spintronics structures. Last decade advances in relativistic spintronics led to the discovery of the staggered, current-induced field in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Libor Šmejkal , Tomáš Jungwirth

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

Spin currents can modify the magnetic state of ferromagnetic ultrathin films through spin-orbit torque. They may be generated by means of spin-orbit interaction by either bulk or interfacial phenomena. Electrical transport measurements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 A. Anadón , R. Guerrero , J. A. Jover-Galtier , A. Gudín , J. M. Díez , P. Olleros-Rodríguez , R. Miranda , J. Camarero , P. Perna

Antiferromagnets with vanishingly small (or zero) magnetization are interesting candidates for spintronics applications. In the present paper we propose two models for description of the current-induced phenomena in antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 Helen Gomonay , Vadim Loktev

We theoretically investigate the generation of spin current from a uniformly rotating body with impurity scattering on the basis of the spin dependent transport equation. The spin current is created mainly in the radial direction when a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mamoru Matsuo , Jun'ichi Ieda , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

Spin photogalvanic effect (SPGE) is an efficient method to generate a spin current by photoexcitation in a contactless and ultra-fast way. In two-dimensional (2D) collinear antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials that preserve the combined…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-19 Rui-Chun Xiao , Ding-Fu Shao , Yu-Hang Li , Hua Jiang

We show that spin-dependent electron-phonon interaction in the energy relaxation of a two-dimensional electron gas results in equal and oppositely directed currents in the spin-up and spin-down subbands yielding a pure spin current. In our…

Ferromagnets are key materials for sensing and memory applications. In contrast, antiferromagnets that represent the more common form of magnetically ordered materials, have so far found less practical application beyond their use for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 J. Železný , P. Wadley , K. Olejník. A. Hoffmann , H. Ohno

When a spin-polarized current flows through a ferromagnetic (FM) metal, angular momentum is transferred to the background magnetization via spin-transfer torques. In antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, however, the corresponding problem is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu

Surface plasmons, free-electron collective oscillations in metallic nanostructures, provide abundant routes to manipulate light-electron interactions that can localize light energy and alter electromagnetic field distributions at…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Ken-ichi Uchida , Hiroto Adachi , Daisuke Kikuchi , Shun Ito , Zhiyong Qiu , Sadamichi Maekawa , Eiji Saitoh

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging research field whose focus is on the electrical and optical control of the antiferromagnetic order parameter and its utility in information technology devices. An example of recently discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

A new current induced spin-torque transfer effect has been observed in a single ferromagnetic layer without resorting to multilayers. At a specific current density of one polarity injected from a point contact, abrupt resistance changes due…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Ji , C. L. Chien

The interplay between spin, charge, and orbital degrees of freedom has led to the development of spintronic devices like spin-torque oscillators, spin-logic devices, and spin-transfer torque magnetic random-access memories. In this…

We report deterministic operations on single dipolar skyrmions confined in nanostructured cuboids using in-plane currents. We achieve highly reversible writing and deleting of skyrmions in the simple cuboid without any artificial defects or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Jin Tang , Jialiang Jiang , Yaodong Wu , Lingyao Kong , Yihao Wang , Junbo Li , Y. Soh , Yimin Xiong , Shouguo Wang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

Spintronics uses spins, the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, as an alternative for the electron charge. Its long-term goal is in the development of beyond-Moore low dissipation technology devices. Recent progress demonstrated the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-14 R. Lebrun , A. Ross , S. A. Bender , A. Qaiumzadeh , L. Baldrati , J. Cramer , A. Brataas , R. A. Duine , M. Kläui