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We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate that nonlinear spin-wave dynamics can induce an effective resonant interaction between non-resonant magnon modes in a yttrium iron garnet disk. Under strong pumping near the ferromagnetic…

Altermagnets, a class of unconventional antiferromagnets where antiparallel spins are connected by combined rotational and translational symmetries, have recently emerged as promising candidates for spintronic applications, as they can…

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We formulate a theoretical description of antiferromagnetic magnons and their transport in terms of an associated pseudospin. The need and strength of this formulation emerges from the antiferromagnetic eigenmodes being formed from…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-03 Akashdeep Kamra , Tobias Wimmer , Hans Huebl , Matthias Althammer

The active manipulation of phonon transport remains a central challenge in phononics and spin caloritronics due to the charge-neutral nature of heat carriers. Spin-phonon coupling (SPC) offers a promising route for the dynamic control of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Zhongbin Wang , Wenlong Tang , Simin Pang , Hongxing Zhu , Renkang Fan , Baohai Jia , Junxue Li , Ben Xu , Jun Zhang , Lin Xie , Jiaqing He

We investigate quantum effects on magnon excitations in a minimal spin-1/2 Heisenberg model for 2D altermagnets on the square lattice. A continuous similarity transformation is applied in momentum space to derive an effective Hamiltonian…

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We investigate tripartite coupling between phonons, magnons and photons in a periodic array of elliptical magnetostrictive nanomagnets delineated on a piezoelectric substrate to form a two-dimensional two-phase multiferroic crystal. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Raisa Fabiha , Jonathan Lundquist , Sudip Majumder , Erdem Topsakal , Anjan Barman , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) are promising candidates for low-power spin-based electronics, yet existing realizations that rely on spin-orbit coupling are constrained by limited material choices and short spin-coherence lengths.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Ziye Zhu , Xianzhang Chen , Xunkai Duan , Zhou Cui , Jiayong Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Despite the growing interest in phonon angular momentum (AM) in recent years, current studies remain limited to a few materials due to the constraints imposed by time reversal symmetry on macroscopic phonon AM. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-09 Hong Sun , Xiaozhe Li , Lifa Zhang

Here we report on measurements of the spin-Seebeck effect of GaMnAs over an extended temperature range alongside the thermal conductivity, specific heat, magnetization, and thermoelectric power. The amplitude of the spin-Seebeck effect in…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 C. M. Jaworski , J. Yang , S. Mack , D. D. Awschalom , R. C. Myers , J. P. Heremans

Establishing a way to control magnetic dynamics and elementary excitations (magnons) is crucial to fundamental physics and the search for novel phenomena and functions in magnetic solid-state systems. Electromagnetic waves have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Daiki Hatanaka , Motoki Asano , Hajime Okamoto , Hiroshi Yamaguchi

We investigate magnetization dynamics in a spin-Hall oscillator using a direct current measurement as well as conventional microwave spectrum analysis. When the current applies an anti-damping spin-transfer torque, we observe a change in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 S. Langenfeld , V. Tshitoyan , Z. Fang , A. Wells , T. A. Moore , A. J. Ferguson

Altermagnetism is a recently identified phase with a d, g or i-wave spin symmetry of magnetic ordering. Its discovery opens new research fronts at intersections of magnetism and spintronics with fields ranging from superconductivity to…

Spintronics is postulated on the possibility to employ the magnetic degree of freedom of electrons for computation and couple it to charges. In this view, the combination of the high-frequency of spin manipulations offered by…

Electron spin relaxation induced by phonon-mediated s-d exchange interaction in a II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum dot is investigated theoretically. The electron-acoustic phonon interaction due to piezoelectric coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , K. Chang

Altermagnetism, a recently proposed and experimentally confirmed class of magnetic order, features collinear compensated magnetism with unconventional d-, g-, or i-wave spin order. Here, we show that in a metallic 2D d-wave altermagnet with…

In the context of a growing interdisciplinary interest in the angular momentum of wave fields, the spin-wave case has yet to be fully explored, with the extensively studied notion of spin transport being only part of the broader picture.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Thierry Valet , Kei Yamamoto , Benjamin Pigeau , Grégoire de Loubens , Olivier Klein

Altermagnetism, a recently discovered collinear magnetic order with net zero magnetization but exhibits spin-splitting band structure, has attracted much research interest due to the rich fundamental physics and possible applications. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Lijun Yang , Long Liang

Control over quantum systems is typically achieved by time-dependent electric or magnetic fields. Alternatively, electronic spins can be controlled by spin-polarized currents. Here we demonstrate coherent driving of a single spin by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Stepan Kovarik , Richard Schlitz , Aishwarya Vishwakarma , Dominic Ruckert , Pietro Gambardella , Sebastian Stepanow

We consider current-induced spin-transfer torque on an antiferromagnet in a dual spin-valve setup. It is demonstrated that a net magnetization may be induced in the AFM by partially or completely aligning the sublattice magnetizations via a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jacob Linder

An attractive feature of magnetic adatoms and molecules for nanoscale applications is their superparamagnetism, the preferred alignment of their spin along an easy axis preventing undesired spin reversal. The underlying magnetic anisotropy…

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