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Cluster magnetic multipoles are order parameters that describe the symmetry of spin arrangements in magnetic materials. High-order multipoles are particularly important in non-collinear antiferromagnets, where they determine key physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Myoung-Woo Yoo , Axel Hoffmann

The rich order parameter of Spin Density Waves allows for an unusual object of a complex topological nature: a half-integer dislocation combined with a semi-vortex of the staggered magnetization. It becomes energetically preferable to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Brazovski , N. Kirova

Insulating altermagnets like MnTe exhibit spin configurations where opposing spins are not only aligned antiparallel but also rotated relative to each other. This is an arrangement reminiscent of antiferromagnetism with a twist of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Partha Goswami

We recently showed that spin fluctuations of noncoplanar magnetic states can induce topological superconductivity in an adjacent normal metal [M{\ae}land et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 156002 (2023)]. The noncolinear nature of the spins was…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-21 Kristian Mæland , Sara Abnar , Jacob Benestad , Asle Sudbø

We discuss the ground state properties of a spin 1/2 magnetic ion with threefold $t_{2g}$ orbital degeneracy on a highly frustrated pyrochlore lattice, like Ti$^{3+}$ ion in B-spinel MgTi$_2$O$_4$. We formulate an effective spin-orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Di Matteo , G. Jackeli , N. B. Perkins

Spin relaxation torque ${\cal T}$ in uniform metallic ferromagnets with the spin-orbit interaction arising from random impurities is calculated microscopically. ${\cal T}$ is shown to be written by spatial derivatives of the electric field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Noriyuki Nakabayashi , Akihito Takeuchi , Kazuhiro Hosono , Katsuhisa Taguchi , Gen Tatara

Altermagnet is a newly discovered magnetic phase, characterized by non-relativistic spin-splitting that has been experimentally observed. Here, we introduce a framework dubbed {\it spin-orbital altermagnetism} to achieve spin-orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-22 Zi-Ming Wang , Yang Zhang , Song-Bo Zhang , Jin-Hua Sun , Elbio Dagotto , Dong-Hui Xu , Lun-Hui Hu

We investigate the influence of different spin-orbit couplings on topological phase transitions in the bilayer Kane-Mele model. We find that the competition between intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and Rashba spin-orbit coupling can lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Hui Pan , Xin Li , Zhenhua Qiao , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Yugui Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang

In commensurate twisted homobilayers, purely radial Rashba spin-orbit fields can emerge. We employ first-principles calculations to investigate the band structures and the spin-orbit fields close to the high-symmetry points $K$ and $\Gamma$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Thomas Naimer , Paulo E. Faria Junior , Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

Spin tunneling in the particular case of the magnetic molecular cluster octanuclear iron(III), Fe8, is treated by an effective Hamiltonian that allows for an angle-based description of the process. The presence of an external magnetic field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Galetti , E. C. Silva

We investigate the magnetic properties of small transition metal clusters using a simple statistical model, which requires some input data from ab initio spin-density functional calculations. In our study we consider a thermodynamically…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Borrmann , Bernd Diekmann , Eberhard R. Hilf , David Tomanek

In this letter, an asymmetric spin wave scattering behaviors caused by vortex chirality are investigated in cross-shaped ferromagnetic system. In the system, four scattering behaviors are found, 1) asymmetric skew scattering, depending on…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-23 Xue-Feng Zhang , Je-Ho Shim , Xiao-Ping Ma , Cheng Song , Haiming Yu , Hong-Guang Piao

Twistronics is a powerful strategy to engineer novel quantum states by controlling the relative orientation between layered materials. Here, we demonstrate that an orthogonally twisted bilayer CrPS$_4$ shows $d$-wave altermagnetism driven…

We report our theoretical results on spin conductivity in antiferromagnets by focusing on the role of the magnetic toroidal quadrupole (MTQ) in electron systems. The MTQ is characterized as a time-reversal-odd rank-2 polar tensor degree of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-18 Satoru Hayami , Megumi Yatsushiro

High-spin states hold significant promise for classical and quantum information storage and emerging magnetic memory technologies. Here, we present a systematic framework for engineering such high-spin magnetic states in dopant clusters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Rhine Samajdar , Haonan Zhou , R. N. Bhatt

A theory of magnetoacoustic resonance is proposed to measure quadrupole-strain couplings in a spin-triplet state with the $C_{3v}$ point group symmetry, considering the spin-strain interaction in a diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Mikito Koga , Masashige Matsumoto

Strong magnetic field pulses associated with a relativistic electron bunch can imprint switching patterns in magnetic thin films that have uniaxial in-plane anisotropy. In experiments with Fe and FeCo alloy films the pattern shape reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Ioan Tudosa

The magnetization switching of a thin ferromagnetic layer placed on top of a heavy metal (such as Pt, Ta or W) driven by an in-plane current has been observed in recent experiments. The magnetization dynamics of these processes is studied…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Finocchio , M. Carpentieri , E. Martinez , B. Azzerboni

High-order topological insulators (HOTIs), as generalized from topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), are characterized with lower-dimensional metallic boundary states protected by spatial symmetries of a crystal, whose theoretical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-02 Citian Wang , Feng Liu , Huaqing Huang

Inspired by recent experimental studies of local magnetic moments interacting with a metallic quasicrystal, we study the low-temperature fate of spins placed in two-dimensional tilings. In the diluted local moment limit, we calculate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-17 Ronaldo N. Araújo , Carlo C. Bellinati , Eric C. Andrade