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Publications (25)

cond-mat.str-el2016

Strain-induced nonsymmorphic symmetry breaking and removal of Dirac semimetallic nodal line in an orthoperovskite iridate

Jian Liu, D. Kriegner, L. Horak +10

By using a combination of heteroepitaxial growth, structure refinement based on synchrotron x-ray diffraction and first-principles calculations, we show that the symmetry-protected…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Spontaneous lattice distortion and crystal field effects in HoB4

S. Goswami, D. I. Gorbunov, D. Kriegner +9

The tetraboride HoB4 crystallizes in a tetragonal structure (space group P4/mbm), with the Ho atoms realizing a Shastry-Sutherland lattice. It orders antiferromagnetically at TN1 =…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Single-crystalline CrSb(0001) thin films grown by dc magnetron co-sputtering

S. P. Bommanaboyena, C. Müller, M. Jarošová +15

The recent discovery of altermagnetism has sparked renewed interest in the growth of epitaxial films of the NiAs-phase polymorph of CrSb. This paper describes the magnetron sputter…

cond-mat.str-el2013

Tuning the electronic properties of J_eff=1/2 correlated semimetal in epitaxial perovskite SrIrO3

Jian Liu, J. -H. Chu, C. Rayan Serrao +11

We investigated the electronic properties of epitaxially stabilized perovskite SrIrO3 and demonstrated the effective strain-control on its electronic structure. Comprehensive trans…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Electrically induced and detected Néel vector reversal in a collinear antiferromagnet

J. Godinho, H. Reichlova, D. Kriegner +11

Electrical detection of the 180 deg spin reversal, which is the basis of the operation of ferromagnetic memories, is among the outstanding challenges in the research of antiferroma…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Temperature Dependence of Relativistic Valence Band Splitting Induced by an Altermagnetic Phase Transition

M. Hajlaoui, S. W. D'Souza, L. Å mejkal +13

Altermagnetic (AM) materials exhibit non-relativistic, momentum-dependent spin-split states, ushering in new opportunities for spin electronic devices. While the characteristics of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Magnetic anisotropy in antiferromagnetic hexagonal MnTe

D. Kriegner, H. Reichlova, J. Grenzer +12

Antiferromagnetic hexagonal MnTe is a promising material for spintronic devices relying on the control of antiferromagnetic domain orientations. Here we report on neutron diffracti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Surface versus bulk contributions to the giant Rashba splitting in the ferroelectric α-GeTe(111) semiconductor

J. Krempaský, H. Volfová, S. Muff +14

In systems with broken inversion symmetry spin-orbit coupling (SOC) yields a Rashba-type spin splitting of electronic states, manifested in a k-dependent splitting of the bands. Wh…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Spin flop and crystalline anisotropic magnetoresistance in CuMnAs

M. Wang, C. Andrews, S. Reimers +20

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-orde…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Altermagnetism imaged and controlled down to the nanoscale

O. J. Amin, A. Dal Din, E. Golias +17

Nanoscale detection and control of the magnetic order underpins a broad spectrum of fundamental research and practical device applications. The key principle involved is the breaki…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Tetragonal phase of epitaxial room-temperature antiferromagnet CuMnAs

P. Wadley, V. Novák, R. P. Campion +20

Recent studies have demonstrated the potential of antiferromagnets as the active component in spintronic devices. This is in contrast to their current passive role as pinning layer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Altermagnetic -MnTe

A. Hariki, A. Dal Din, O. J. Amin +14

Altermagnetism is a recently identified magnetic symmetry class combining characteristics of conventional collinear ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, that were regarded as mutuall…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Altermagnetic spintronics

T. Jungwirth, J. Sinova, P. Wadley +5

The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Lattice distortion in TmCo: a poly- and single- crystal study

J. Å ebesta, D. Kriegner, J. Prchal

Within the RCo family of compounds, a structural distortion linked with the onset of magnetic ordering around the critical temperature can be observed. One of the less explored…

physics.app-ph2021

Giant quadratic magneto-optical response of thin YIG films for sensitive magnetometric experiments

E. Schmoranzerová, T. Ostatnický, J. Kimák +10

We report on observation of a magneto-optical effect quadratic in magnetization (Cotton-Mouton effect) in 50 nm thick layer of Yttrium-Iron Garnet (YIG). By a combined theoretical…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Band structure of CuMnAs probed by optical and photoemission spectroscopy

M. Veis, J. Minar, G. Steciuk +19

Tetragonal phase of CuMnAs progressively appears as one of the key materials for antiferromagnetic spintronics due to efficient current-induced spin-orbit torques whose existence c…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Superconductivity in epitaxial PtSb(0001) thin films

C. Müller, S. P. Bommanaboyena, A. Badura +12

We report superconductivity in epitaxial PtSb(0001) thin films grown on SrF2(111). Electrical transport measurements reveal a superconducting transition at K.…

cond-mat.str-el2017

Two-dimensional = 1/2 antiferromagnetic insulator unraveled from interlayer exchange coupling in artificial perovskite iridate superlattices

L. Hao, D. Meyers, C. Frederick +11

We report an experimental investigation of the two-dimensional = 1/2 antiferromagnetic Mott insulator by varying the interlayer exchange coupling in [(SrIrO)$_1…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Spontaneous anomalous Hall effect arising from an unconventional compensated magnetic phase in a semiconductor

R. D. Gonzalez Betancourt, J. Zubáč, R. J. Gonzalez-Hernandez +12

The anomalous Hall effect, commonly observed in metallic magnets, has been established to originate from the time-reversal symmetry breaking by an internal macroscopic magnetizatio…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012

Semiconductor quantum dots with light-hole exciton ground state: fabrication and fine structure

Y. H. Huo, B. J. Witek, S. Kumar +11

Quantum dots (QDs) can act as convenient hosts of two-level quantum szstems, such as single electron spins, hole spins or excitons (bound electron-hole pairs). Due to quantum confi…

physics.app-ph2023

Altermagnetic lifting of Kramers spin degeneracy

J. Krempaský, L. Šmejkal, S. W. D'Souza +20

Lifted Kramers spin-degeneracy has been among the central topics of condensed-matter physics since the dawn of the band theory of solids. It underpins established practical applica…

physics.optics2021

Thermally induced all-optical ferromagnetic resonance in thin YIG films

E. Schmoranzerová, J. Kimák, R. Schlitz +10

All-optical ferromagnetic resonance (AO-FMR) is a powerful tool for local detection of micromagnetic parameters, such as magnetic anisotropy, Gilbert damping or spin stiffness. In…

cond-mat.str-el2019

Giant enhancement of the skyrmion stability in a chemically strained helimagnet

A. S. Sukhanov, Praveen Vir, A. Heinemann +6

We employed small-angle neutron scattering to demonstrate that the magnetic skyrmion lattice can be realized in bulk chiral magnets as a thermodynamically stable state at temperatu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Multiple-stable anisotropic magnetoresistance memory in antiferromagnetic MnTe

D. Kriegner, K. Vyborny, K. Olejnik +10

A common perception assumes that magnetic memories require ferromagnetic materials with a non-zero net magnetic moment. However, it has been recently proposed that compensated anti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Current induced torques in structures with ultra-thin IrMn antiferromagnet

H. Reichlová, D. Kriegner, V. Holý +8

Relativistic current induced torques and devices utilizing antiferromagnets have been independently considered as two promising new directions in spintronics research. Here we repo…