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The Multi-Scale Dynamics of All-Optical Exchange Bias Reversal

Floris J. F. van Riel, Andries B. M. Droste, Bert Koopmans +1

Pinning magnetization in a ferromagnetic thin film is commonly realized through exchange biasing with an adjacent antiferromagnet. Field-cooling from above the Néel temperature is…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Thickness-dependent magnon spin transport in antiferromagnetic insulators: Crossover from quasi-three-dimensional to quasi-two-dimensional regimes

Mathias Åsan Myhre, Verena Brehm, Thomas Delvaux +2

Motivated by the recent observation of giant room-temperature magnon spin conductivity in an ultrathin ferromagnetic insulator [X.-Y. Wei et al., Nat. Mater. 21, 1352 (2022)], we i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 4 cited

Observation and Control of Chiral Spin Frustration in BiYIG Thin Films

Jinlong Wang, Hanchen Wang, Zhewen Xu +17

Chiral interactions within magnetic layers stabilize the formation of noncollinear spin textures, which can be leveraged to design devices with tailored magnetization dynamics. Her…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Magnetic moment of electrons in systems with spin-orbit coupling

I. A. Ado, M. Titov, Rembert A. Duine +1

Magnetic effects originating from spin-orbit coupling (SOC) have been attracting major attention. However, SOC contributions to the electron magnetic moment operator are convention…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

RKKY quadratic and biquadratic spin-spin interactions in twisted bilayer graphene

D. O. Oriekhov, T. T. Osterholt, R. A. Duine +1

We study the competition between the RKKY quadratic and biquadratic spin-spin interactions of two magnetic impurities in twisted bilayer graphene away from the magic angle. We appl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Few-Mode and Anisotropic Quantum Transport in InSb Nanoribbons Using an All-van der Waals Material-Based Gate

Colin J. Riggert, Pim Lueb, Tyler Littmann +5

High-quality electrostatic gating is a fundamental ingredient for successful semiconducting device physics, and a key element of realizing clean quantum transport. Inspired by the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Subnanometric control of coupling between WS monolayers with a molecular spacer

Sara A. Elrafei, Tom T. C. Sistermans, Alberto G. Curto

Stacking monolayer semiconductors into heterostructures allows for control of their optical and electronic properties, offering advantages for nanoscale electronics, optoelectronic…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Entropic magnetic interlayer coupling

William Huddie, Laura Filion, Marjolein Dijkstra +1

Nanomagnetism concerns the engineering of magnetic interactions in heterostructures that consist of layers of magnetic and non-magnetic materials. Mostly, these interactions are do…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 12 cited

Fundamentals and applications of Van der Waals magnets in magnon spintronics

Samuel Mañas-Valero, Toeno van der Sar, Rembert A. Duine +1

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 3 cited

Understanding Field-Free Single-Shot Laser-Induced Reversal of Exchange Bias

Floris J. F. van Riel, Stoyan M. Vercruysse, Bert Koopmans +1

Exchange bias is applied ubiquitously throughout the spintronics industry for pinning magnetic moment in an orientation robust against external magnetic field disturbances. Enablin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 5 cited

Dual topological insulator with mirror symmetry protected helical edge states

Warlley H. Campos, Poliana H. Penteado, Julian Zanon +3

Dual topological insulators (DTIs) are simultaneously protected by time-reversal and crystal symmetries, representing advantageous alternatives to conventional topological insulato…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 10 cited

Supercurrent through an Andreev trimer

Alberto Bordin, Florian J. Bennebroek Evertsz', Gorm O. Steffensen +8

Detection and control of Andreev Bound States (ABSs) localized at semiconductor-superconductor interfaces are essential for their use in quantum applications. Here we investigate t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 15 cited

Compromise-Free Scaling of Qubit Speed and Coherence

Miguel J. Carballido, Simon Svab, Rafael S. Eggli +12

Across leading qubit platforms, a common trade-off persists: increasing coherence comes at the cost of operational speed, reflecting the notion that protecting a qubit from its noi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 14 cited

Evidence for -shifted Cooper quartets and few-mode transport in PbTe nanowire three-terminal Josephson junctions

Mohit Gupta, Vipin Khade, Colin Riggert +7

Josephson junctions are typically characterized by a single phase difference across two superconductors. This conventional two-terminal Josephson junction can be generalized to a m…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Position operators and interband matrix elements of scalar and vector potentials in the 8-band Kane model

I. A. Ado, M. Titov, Rembert A. Duine +1

We diagonalize the 8-band Kane Hamiltonian with a proper inclusion of the interband matrix elements of the scalar and vector potentials. This leads, among other results, to a modif…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Detection of Geometric Phases in Spin Waves using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers

Tomas T. Osterholt, Pieter M. Gunnink, Rembert A. Duine

Due to their robustness, the implementation of geometric phases provides a reliable and controllable way to manipulate the phase of a spin wave, thereby paving the way towards func…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 5 cited

Spin Hall conductivity in BiSb as an experimental test of bulk-boundary correspondence

Yongxi Ou, Wilson Yanez-Parreño, Yu-sheng Huang +9

Bulk-boundary correspondence is a foundational principle underlying the electronic band structure and physical behavior of topological quantum materials. Although it has been rigor…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 64 cited

Robust poor man's Majorana zero modes using Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states

Francesco Zatelli, David van Driel, Di Xu +14

The recent realization of a two-site Kitaev chain featuring "poor man's Majorana" states demonstrates a path forward in the field of topological superconductivity. Harnessing the p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 13 cited

Charge sensing the parity of an Andreev molecule

David van Driel, Bart Roovers, Francesco Zatelli +10

The proximity effect of superconductivity on confined states in semiconductors gives rise to various bound states such as Andreev bound states (ABSs), Andreev molecules and Majoran…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 5 cited

Magnon spin capacitor

Pieter M. Gunnink, Tim Ludwig, Rembert A. Duine

In this work we show that a magnon spin capacitor can be realized at a junction between two exchange coupled ferromagnets. In this junction, the buildup of magnon spin over the jun…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 12 cited

Bath-induced spin inertia

Mario Gaspar Quarenta, Mithuss Tharmalingam, Tim Ludwig +4

Spin dynamics is usually described as massless or, more precisely, as free of inertia. Recent experiments, however, found direct evidence for inertial spin dynamics. In turn, it is…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 10 cited

Kubo formula for dc conductivity: generalization to systems with spin-orbit coupling

I. A. Ado, M. Titov, Rembert A. Duine +1

We revise the Kubo formula for the electric dc conductivity in the presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We discover that each velocity operator that enters this formula differs f…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 6 cited

Ultrafast single-pulse all-optical switching in synthetic ferrimagnetic Tb/Co/Gd multilayers

Julian Hintermayr, Pingzhi Li, Roy Rosenkamp +6

In this work, we investigate single-shot all-optical switching (AOS) in Tb/Co/Gd/Co/Tb multilayers in an attempt to establish AOS in synthetic ferrimagnets with high perpendicular…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 20 cited

Isotropic plasma-thermal atomic layer etching of superconducting TiN films using sequential exposures of molecular oxygen and SFH plasma

Azmain A. Hossain, Haozhe Wang, David S. Catherall +4

Microwave loss in superconducting titanium nitride (TiN) films is attributed to two-level systems in various interfaces arising in part from oxidation and microfabrication-induced…