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In the celebrated Stern-Gerlach experiment an inhomogeneous static magnetic field separates a beam of charge-neutral atoms with opposite spins, thereby driving a ``spin current" normal to the propagation direction. Here we generalize it to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Chengyuan Cai , Tao Yu

Spin-waves (magnons) are among the prime candidates for building fast yet energy-efficient platforms for information transport and computing. We here demonstrate theoretically and in state-of-the-art micromagnetic simulation the effects…

Altermagnets feature unconventional magnetism due to their momentum-dependent spin splitting purely driven by magnetic order, for which a variety of transition-metal-based d-wave altermagnets have been proposed. However, carbon-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-22 Cuiju Yu , Jose L. Lado

We show how amplitude modulated, coherent high-frequency drives can be used to access otherwise difficult to reach collective resonances and off-resonantly induce parametric instabilities. In particular, we demonstrate that difficult to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Egor I. Kiselev , Jonas F. Karcher , Mark S. Rudner , Rembert Duine , Netanel H. Lindner

Terahertz spintronics offers the prospect of devices which are both faster and more energy-efficient. A promising route to achieve this goal is to exploit current-induced spin-orbit torques. However, the high-frequency properties of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Filipe S. M. Guimarães , Juba Bouaziz , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

Nonlinear interactions of spin-waves and their quanta, magnons, have emerged as prominent candidates for interference-based technology, ranging from quantum transduction to antiferromagnetic spintronics. Yet magnon multiplication in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-09 C. Huang , L. Luo , M. Mootz , J. Shang , P. Man , L. Su , I. E. Perakis , Y. X. Yao , A. Wu , J. Wang

The magnon-phonon coupling has received growing attention in recent years due to its central role in spin caloritronics and the emerging field of acoustic spintronics. At resonance, this magnetoelastic interaction drives the formation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Tor Jonas Sjöstrand , Ferdi Aryasetiawan

We present new mechanism for manipulation of the spin-wave amplitude through the use of the dynamic charge-mediated magnetoelectric effect in ultrathin multilayers composed of dielectric thin-film capacitors separated by a ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Piotr Graczyk , Maciej Krawczyk

Spin-phonon coupling enables the mutual manipulation of phonon and spin degrees of freedom in solids. In this study, we reveal the inherent nonlinearity within this coupling. Using a paramagnet as an illustration, we demonstrate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Yafei Ren , Mark Rudner , Di Xiao

The recent discovery of altermagnets, which exhibit spin splitting without net magnetization, opens new directions for spintronics beyond the limits of ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, and spin orbit coupled systems. We investigate spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pei-Hao Fu , Qianqian Lv , Yong Xu , Jorge Cayao , Jun-Feng Liu , Xiang-Long Yu

The layered antiferromagnet CrSBr features magnons coupled to other quasiparticles, including excitons and polaritons, enabling their easy optical accessibility. In this work, we investigate the tunability of magnons in few-layered devices…

Recent experiments demonstrate precise control over coherently excited circular phonon modes using high-intensity terahertz lasers, opening new pathways towards dynamical, ultrafast design of magnetism in functional materials. While the…

Chiral phonons are desirable for applications in spintronics but their generation and control remains a challenge.Here we demonstrate the emergence of truly chiral phonons from selective magnon-phonon coupling in inversion-symmetric…

Altermagnets offer a promising platform for dissipationless spin transport by combining zero net magnetization with spontaneous non-relativistic spin splitting. However, their magnonic transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Sankar Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

Tailored light excitation and nonlinear control of lattice vibrations have emerged as powerful strategies to manipulate the properties of quantum materials out of equilibrium. Generalizing the use of coherent phonon-phonon interactions to…

We theoretically predict that the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction can induce a magnon equilibrium spin current in collinear antiferromagnets. Such a current, being a response to the effective magnon vector potential, can be considered the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Vladimir A. Zyuzin

Collinear antiferromagnets with nonrelativistic spin-split bands and no net magnetization, called altermagnets, show interesting transport properties due to their unique band structure. We here compute the linear response optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Erik Wegner Hodt , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Jacob Linder

Magnetothermal transport in various frustrated magnets exhibits striking field-dependent anomalies that deviate from conventional magnon or phonon transport. To understand such anomalies, we derive an effective spin-phonon Hamiltonian in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-14 Haoting Xu , Antoine Matar , Hae-Young Kee

Spintronics is concerned with replacing charge current with current of spin, the electron's intrinsic angular momentum. In magnetic insulators, spin currents are carried by magnons, the quanta of spin-wave excitations on top of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Samuel Mañas-Valero , Toeno van der Sar , Rembert A. Duine , Bart van Wees

The possibility of a strain-induced transformation from $g$-wave to $d$-wave altermagnetism was recently recently proposed for MnTe using a $k\cdot p$ perturbative model. In this work, we demonstrate such a transition in CrSb for a wider…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-03 Bennet Karetta , Xanthe H. Verbeek , Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo , Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova
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