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Spin-orbit torques induced by spin Hall and interfacial effects in heavy metal/ferromagnetic bilayers allow for a switching geometry based on in-plane current injection. Using this geometry, we demonstrate deterministic magnetization…

Employing electron spin instead of charge to develop spintronic devices holds the merits of low-power consumption in information technologies. Meanwhile, the demand for increasing speed in spintronics beyond current CMOS technology has…

Ultrafast electrical switching by current-induced staggered spin-orbit fields, with minimal risk of overshoot, is shown in layered easy-plane antiferromagnets with basal-plane biaxial anisotropy. The reliable switching is due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 P. E. Roy , R. M. Otxoa , J. Wunderlich

Antiferromagnets have attracted significant attention because of their considerable potential in engineering high-density and ultrafast memory devices, a crucial and increasingly demanded component of contemporary high-performance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-11 Florian Johannesmann , Asliddin Khudoyberdiev , Götz S. Uhrig

Ultrafast demagnetization induced by femtosecond laser pulses in thin metallic layers is caused by the outflow of spin-polarized hot electron currents describable by the superdiffusive transport model. These laser-generated spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Pavel Baláž , Maciej Zwierzycki , Francesco Cosco , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

Electrical manipulation of spin textures inside antiferromagnets represents a new opportunity for developing spintronics with superior speed and high device density. Injecting spin currents into antiferromagnets and realizing efficient…

Engineering and controlling heat and spin transport on the femtosecond time-scale in spintronic devices opens up new ways to manipulate magnetization with unprecedented speed. Yet the underlying reversal mechanisms remain poorly understood…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Harjinder Singh , Alberto Anadón , Junta Igarashi , Quentin Remy , Stéphane Mangin , Michel Hehn , Jon Gorchon , Gregory Malinowski

Electrical control of the non-trivial topology in Weyl antiferromagnet is of great interests to develop next-generation spintronic devices. Recent works suggest that spin Hall effect can switch the topological antiferromagnetic order.…

Antiferromagnets offer much faster dynamics compared to their ferromagnetic counterparts but their order parameter is extremely difficult to detect and control. So far, controlling the N\'eel order parameter electrically is limited to only…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-09 Sarah Jenkins , Tobias Wagner , Olena Gomonay , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Using micromagnetics we demonstrate that the r.f. field produced by a spin valve can be used to reverse the magnetization in a magnetic nanoparticle. The r.f. field is generated using a current that specifically excites a uniform spin wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Rivkin , J. Ketterson , W. Saslow

Energy-efficient switching of magnetization is a central problem in nonvolatile magnetic storage and magnetic neuromorphic computing. In the past two decades, several efficient methods of magnetic switching were demonstrated including spin…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has been receiving tremendous attention due to their ultrafast kinetics, zero stray field, immune to external magnetic field, and potential to minimizing magnetic storage devices. The optical control of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-17 Q. Xue , J. Zhou

The quest for room-temperature nanoscale magnets remains a central challenge, driven by their promising applications in quantum technologies. Layered $4d$ and $5d$ transition metal oxides with high magnetic ordering temperatures offer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-21 Deepak K. Roy , Mukul Kabir

Ferromagnets are known to support spin-polarized currents that control various spin-dependent transport phenomena useful for spintronics. On the contrary, fully compensated antiferromagnets are expected to support only globally spin-neutral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Ding-Fu Shao , Yuan-Yuan Jiang , Jun Ding , Shu-Hui Zhang , Zi-An Wang , Rui-Chun Xiao , Gautam Gurung , W. J. Lu , Y. P. Sun , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

A femtosecond laser pulse is able to switch the magnetic state of a 3d-4f ferrimagnetic material on a pico-second time scale. Devices based on this all-optical switching (AOS) mechanism are competitive candidates for ultrafast memory…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Pingzhi Li , Mark J. G. Peeters , Youri L. W. van Hees , Reinoud Lavrijsen , Bert Koopmans

We show that triangle-based antiferromagnets with "anti-chiral" order display a non-trivial dependence of the spin orientation with an in-plane field. The spins evolve from rotating in the opposite sense to the field at very low fields to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-31 Leon Balents

Electric control of N\'eel vector is a central task of antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics. The major scheme so far relies on the linear N\'eel torque, which however is restricted to AFMs with broken inversion symmetry. Here, we propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Jin Cao , Weikang Wu , Huiying Liu , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , X. C. Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang

Altermagnetic order, characterized by the N\'{e}el vector, breaks time-reversal symmetry (TRS) even in the nonrelativistic limit. Although spin-polarized and anomalous transport phenomena emerge with this order, they are mutually…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-22 Zheyuan Liu , Shinichiro Asai , Shingo Takahashi , Hiraku Saito , Taro Nakajima , Takatsugu Masuda

Recently, a method of ultrafast polarization switching in ferroelectrics has been suggested. The basic idea of the method is to employ the effect of self-acceleration of polarization dynamics due to a resonator feedback field. This is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

To verify the exact underlying mechanism of ultrafast vortex-core reversal as well as the vortex state stability we conducted numerical calculations of the dynamic evolution of magnetic vortices in Permalloy cylindrical nanodots under an…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-11-20 Ki-Suk Lee , Konstantin Y. Guslienko , Jun-Young Lee , Sang-Koog Kim