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Intensive studies have been made on antiferromagnets as candidate materials for next generation memory bits due to their ultrafast dynamics reaching picosecond time scales. Recent demonstrations of electrical bidirectional switching of…

The discovery of femtosecond laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization in 1996 opened a new field, femtomagnetism, in which magnetic order can be quenched on timescales shorter than a picosecond. This seminal observation revealed that angular…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-29 Quentin Remy , Stéphane Mangin

Electrical manipulation of antiferromagnets with specific symmetries offers the prospect of creating novel, antiferromagnetic spintronic devices. Such devices aim to make use of the insensitivity to external magnetic fields and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Markus Meinert , Dominik Graulich , Tristan Matalla-Wagner

Owing to their high magnon frequencies, antiferromagnets are key materials for future high-speed spintronics. Picosecond switching of antiferromagnetic order has been viewed a milestone for decades and pursued only by using ultrafast…

Electrical manipulation of antiferromagnetic states, a cornerstone of antiferromagnetic spintronics, is a great challenge, requiring novel material platforms. Here we report the full control over antiferromagnetic states by voltage pulses…

Ultrafast laser-induced magnetic switching in rare earth, transition metal ferrimagnetic alloys has recently been reported to occur by ultrafast heating alone. Using atomistic simulations and a ferrimagnetic Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch formalism,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 U. Atxitia , T. Ostler , J. Barker , R. F. L. Evans , R. W. Chantrell , O. Chubykalo-Fesenko

Picosecond switching of the staggered antiferromagnetic order is shown to be realizable through spin-transfer torques from a short current pulse. The coupled dynamics of sublattice magnetization is mapped onto a classical pendulum subject…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Ran Cheng , Matthew W. Daniels , Jian-Gang Zhu , Di Xiao

We present an ultrafast route for a controlled, toggle switching of magnetic vortex cores with ultrashort unipolar magnetic field pulses. The switching process is found to be largely insensitive to extrinsic parameters, like sample size and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Hertel , S. Gliga , M. Fähnle , C. M. Schneider

Recent research works have shown that the magnetic order in some antiferromagnetic materials can be manipulated and detected electrically, due to two physical mechanisms: Neel-order spin-orbit torques and anisotropic magnetoresistance.…

The absence of stray fields, their insensitivity to external magnetic fields, and ultrafast dynamics make antiferromagnets promising candidates for active elements in spintronic devices. Here, we demonstrate manipulation of the N\'{e}el…

Understanding the electrical manipulation of antiferromagnetic order is a crucial aspect to enable the design of antiferromagnetic devices working at THz frequency. Focusing on collinear insulating antiferromagnetic NiO/Pt thin films as a…

Antiferromagnets that display very small stray magnetic field are ideal for spintronic applications. Of particular interest are non-collinear, chiral antiferromagnets of the type Mn3X (X=Sn, Ge), which display a large magnetotransport…

Efficient manipulation of the N\'eel vector in antiferromagnets can be induced by generation of spin orbit (SOT) or spin-transfer (STT) torques. Here we predict another possibility for antiferromagnetic domain switching by using a non-zero…

Irradiating solids with ultrashort laser pulses is known to initiate femtosecond timescale magnetization dynamics. However, sub-femtosecond spin dynamics have not yet been observed or predicted. Here, we explore ultrafast light-driven spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Ofer Neufeld , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Umberto De Giovannini , Hannes Hübener , Angel Rubio

By comparing femtosecond laser pulse induced ferro- and antiferromagnetic dynamics in one and the same material - metallic dysprosium - we show both to behave fundamentally different. Antiferromagnetic order is considerably faster and much…

We explore the possibility of ultrafast, coherent all-optical magnetization switching in antiferromagnets by studying the action of the inverse Faraday effect in CrPt, an easy-plane antiferromagnet. Using a combination of density functional…

Experimentally observed ultrafast all-optical magnetization reversal in ferrimagnetic metals and heterostructures based on antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic $d-$ and $f-$metallic layers relies on intricate energy and angular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-02 Alexandra Kalashnikova , Veniamin Kozub

Altermagnets host chirally split magnons that promise unique functionalities for information processing. However, their distinctive transport signatures, crucial for experimental identification and manipulation, remain elusive. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Yanmeng Lei , Rui-Chun Xiao , Weiwei Lin , Tao Yu

Using time-resolved X-ray magnetic linear dichroism in reflection, we provide a direct probe of the N\'eel vector dynamics in TmFeO$_3$ on a ultrafast timescale. Our measurements reveal that, following optical excitation, the N\'eel vector…

Altermagnets, a newly discovered class of magnets, integrate the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, such as enabling anomalous transport without stray fields and supporting ultrafast spin dynamics, offering exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Xian-Peng Zhang , Run-Wu Zhang , Xiaolong Fan , Wanxiang Feng , Xiangrong Wang , Yugui Yao