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most citedWriting and Reading antiferromagnetic MnAu: Néel spin-orbit torques and large anisotropic magnetoresistance

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61 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Antiferromagnetic Insulators

Stephan Geprägs, Matthias Opel, Johanna Fischer +4

Antiferromagnetic materials promise improved performance for spintronic applications, as they are robust against external magnetic field perturbations and allow for faster magnetiz…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Spin-orbit torque-driven synthetic antiferromagnetic oscillator

P. K. Rout, J. Godinho, F. Vilsmeier +9

Antiferromagnets offer a promising route toward robust spintronic devices because of their compensated magnetic order and exchange-enhanced spin dynamics. Here, we demonstrate a sp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Engineering altermagnetic symmetry to enable anomalous Hall response in CrMnSb

Miriam G. Fischer, Lukas Odenbreit, Olena Gomonay +10

Altermagnets are a promising class of materials for spintronic applications. However, compounds that simultaneously combine the symmetry required to support an anomalous Hall effec…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Direct demonstration of time-reversal-symmetry-breaking spin injection from a compensated magnet

Jone Mencos, Antonin Badura, Eoin Dolan +21

The injection, propagation and detection of spin currents are essential physical processes in spintronics. So far, the separation of charge and spin currents was facilitated by the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Switchable Exchange Bias Resulting from Correlated Domain Structures in Orthogonally Coupled Antiferromagnet/Ferromagnet van der Waals Heterostructures

Aditya Kumar, Sadeed Hameed, Thibaud Denneulin +8

Van der Waals (vdW) magnetic heterostructures offer a versatile platform for engineering interfacial spin interactions with atomic precision, enabling nontrivial spin textures and…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 8 cited

Chiral magnetic excitations and domain textures of g-wave altermagnets

Volodymyr P. Kravchuk, Kostiantyn V. Yershov, Jorge I. Facio +5

Altermagnets (AMs) constitute a novel class of spin-compensated materials in which opposite-spin sublattices are connected by a crystal rotation, causing their electronic iso-energ…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Transport theory and spin-transfer physics in d-wave altermagnets

Ricardo Zarzuela, Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo, Olena Gomonay +2

We develop a mesoscale transport theory for the charge and spin degrees of freedom of itinerant carriers in a -wave altermagnet. Our effective Lagrangian description is built up…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Probing nonlinear spin dynamics in canted easy-plane antiferromagnets using spin-rectification effects

A. El Kanj, S. Mantion, I. Boventer +5

We investigate spin-rectification phenomena in canted antiferromagnets, closely connected to the family of altermagnetic materials. Our results show that excitation efficiency is s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 25 cited

Altermagnetic variants in thin films of Mn5Si3

Javier Rial, Miina Leiviskä, Gregor Skobjin +17

The altermagnet candidate Mn5Si3 has attracted wide attention in the context of non-relativistic spin physics, due to its composition of light elements. However, the presumed struc…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 11 cited

Curvature induced magnetization of altermagnetic films

Kostiantyn V. Yershov, Olena Gomonay, Jairo Sinova +2

We consider a thin film of -wave altermagnet bent in a stretching-free manner and demonstrate that gradients of the film curvature induce a local magnetization which is approxim…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Negative-energy spin waves in antiferromagnets for spin-current amplification and analogue gravity

Valentina Errani, Steven H. Schoenmaker, Xiangrong R. Wang +2

Magnonic black holes-analogue event horizons for the spin-wave collective excitations of ordered magnets-can be used for fundamental research, for example for investigating Hawking…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 53 cited

Structure, control, and dynamics of altermagnetic textures

O. Gomonay, V. P. Kravchuk, R. Jaeschke-Ubiergo +5

We present a phenomenological theory of altermagnets, that captures their unique magnetization dynamics and allows modelling magnetic textures in this new magnetic phase. Focusing…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 93 cited

Anisotropy of the anomalous Hall effect in the altermagnet candidate MnSi films

Miina Leiviskä, Javier Rial, Antonín Badura +15

Altermagnets are compensated magnets belonging to spin symmetry groups that allow alternating spin polarizations both in the coordinate space of the crystal and in the momentum spa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 13 cited

Phase transitions associated with magnetic-field induced topological orbital momenta in a non-collinear antiferromagnet

Sihao Deng, Olena Gomonay, Jie Chen +12

Resistivity measurements are widely exploited to uncover electronic excitations and phase transitions in metallic solids. While single crystals are preferably studied to explore cr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 46 cited

Nonlinear terahertz Néel spin-orbit torques in antiferromagnetic MnAu

Yannic Behovits, Alexander L. Chekhov, Stanislav Yu. Bodnar +8

Antiferromagnets have large potential for ultrafast coherent switching of magnetic order with minimum heat dissipation. In novel materials such as MnAu and CuMnAs, electric rat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 5 cited

Higher-order Hall response arises from octupole order and scalar spin chirality in a noncollinear antiferromagnet

Adithya Rajan, Tom G. Saunderson, Fabian R. Lux +19

Noncollinear antiferromagnets can generate a transverse electrical response known as the anomalous Hall effect, even though they possess almost no net magnetization. The microscopi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 27 cited

Antiferromagnetic insulatronics: spintronics in insulating 3d metal oxides with antiferromagnetic coupling

H. Meer, O. Gomonay, A. Wittmann +1

Antiferromagnetic transition metal oxides are an established and widely studied materials system in the context of spin-based electronics, commonly used as passive elements in exch…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Photocurrents, inverse Faraday effect and photospin Hall effect in MnAu

M. Merte, F. Freimuth, D. Go +6

Among antiferromagnetic materials, MnAu is one of the most intensively studied, and it serves as a very popular platform for testing various ideas related to antiferromagnetic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 10 cited

Coupling of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spin dynamics in MnAu/NiFe thin-film bilayers

Hassan Al-Hamdo, Tobias Wagner, Yaryna Lytvynenko +11

We investigate magnetization dynamics of MnAu/Py (NiFe) thin film bilayers using broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) and Brillouin light scattering spectros…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Magnetic domain engineering in antiferromagnetic CuMnAs and MnAu devices

Sonka Reimers, Olena Gomonay, Oliver J. Amin +17

Antiferromagnetic materials hold potential for use in spintronic devices with fast operation frequencies and field robustness. Despite the rapid progress in proof-of-principle func…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 50 cited

Antiferromagnetic magnon spintronic based on non-reciprocal and non-degenerated ultra-fast spin-waves in the canted antiferromagnet α-Fe2O3

A. El Kanj, O. Gomonay, I. Boventer +4

Spin-waves in antiferromagnets hold the prospects for the development of faster, less power-hungry electronics, as well as promising physics based on spin-superfluids and coherent…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 10 cited

Micromagnetic study of spin transport in easy-plane antiferromagnetic insulators

Verena Brehm, Olena Gomonay, Serban Lepadatu +4

Magnon eigenmodes in easy-plane antiferromagnetic insulators are linearly polarized and are not expected to carry any net spin angular momentum. Motivated by recent nonlocal spin t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Emission of coherent THz magnons in an antiferromagnetic insulator triggered by ultrafast spin-phonon interactions

E. Rongione, O. Gueckstock, M. Mattern +17

Antiferromagnetic materials have been proposed as new types of narrowband THz spintronic devices owing to their ultrafast spin dynamics. Manipulating coherently their spin dynamics…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 4 cited

Indirect optical manipulation of the antiferromagnetic order of insulating NiO by ultrafast interfacial energy transfer

Stephan Wust, Christopher Seibel, Hendrik Meer +14

We report the ultrafast, (sub)picosecond reduction of the antiferromagnetic order of the insulating NiO thin film in a Pt/NiO bilayer. This reduction of the antiferromagnetic order…