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cond-mat.str-el2026

Nonlinear Magnon Magnetic Moment Transport in Triangular-Lattice f-Wave Antialtermagnets

Volodymyr P. Kravchuk, Kostiantyn V. Yershov, Bastián Pradenas +6

We study the spin excitations in the frustrated coplanar 120-degree ground state of the triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet and demonstrate that they carry a magnetic mom…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Odd-Parity-Wave Magnons and Nonrelativistic Thermal Edelstein Effect

Robin R. Neumann, Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo, Ricardo Zarzuela +3

Odd-parity-wave magnets are noncollinear compensated magnets with spin-split band structure in the absence of spin-orbit coupling and dipolar interactions. In contrast to altermagn…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Atomic Altermagnetism

Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo, Venkata-Krishna Bharadwaj, Warlley Campos +6

Altermagnetism has been recently experimentally verified by photoemission mapping of the spin order in momentum space in MnTe and CrSb, which feature two anisotropic sublattices wi…

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★ 2 cited

Observation of a non-reciprocal skyrmion Hall effect of hybrid chiral skyrmion tubes in synthetic antiferromagnetic multilayers

Takaaki Dohi, Mona Bhukta, Fabian Kammerbauer +12

A hybrid chiral skyrmion tube is a well-known example of a 3D topological spin texture, exhibiting an intriguing chirality transition along the thickness direction. This transition…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Non-Abelian Gauge Theory for Magnons in Topologically Textured Frustrated Magnets

Ricardo Zarzuela, Se Kwon Kim

We develop an effective gauge theory for three-flavored magnons in frustrated magnets hosting topological textures with the aid of the quaternion representation of the SO(3) order…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 36 cited

Homochiral antiferromagnetic merons, antimerons and bimerons realized in synthetic antiferromagnets

Mona Bhukta, Takaaki Dohi, Venkata Krishna Bharadwaj +7

The ever-growing demand for device miniaturization and energy efficiency in data storage and computing technology has prompted a shift towards antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Spin-transfer and Topological Hall Effects as Novel Probes for Magnetic Disclinations in Frustrated Magnets

Ricardo Zarzuela, Jairo Sinova

Magnetic frustrated systems have resurged in spintronics as optimal candidates for hosting three dimensional topological solitons, such as Shankar skyrmions and 4-vortices, and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Transport theory and spin-transfer physics for frustrated magnets

Ricardo Zarzuela, Jairo Sinova

We study the electron dynamics in magnetic conductors with frustrated interactions dominated by isotropic exchange. We present a transport theory for itinerant carriers built upon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 9 cited

Self-induced spin-orbit torques in metallic ferromagnets

Hector Ochoa, Ricardo Zarzuela, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We present a phenomenological theory of spin-orbit torques in a metallic ferromagnet with spin-relaxing boundaries. The model is rooted in the coupled diffusion of charge and spin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 7 cited

Dynamically stabilized spin superfluidity in frustrated magnets

Ricardo Zarzuela, Daniel Hill, Jairo Sinova +1

We study the onset of spin superfluidity, namely coherent spin transport mediated by a topological spin texture, in frustrated exchange-dominated magnetic systems, engendered by an…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 38 cited

Stability and dynamics of in-plane skyrmions in collinear ferromagnets

Ricardo Zarzuela, Venkata Krishna Bharadwaj, Kyoung-Whan Kim +2

We study the emergence and dynamics of in-plane skyrmions in collinear ferromagnetic heterostructures. We present a minimal energy model for this class of magnetic textures, determ…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 16 cited

Hydrodynamics of three-dimensional skyrmions in frustrated magnets

Ricardo Zarzuela, Héctor Ochoa, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We study the nucleation and collective dynamics of Shankar skyrmions [R. Shankar, Journal de Physique 38, 1405 (1977)] in the class of frustrated magnetic systems described by an S…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 14 cited

Stabilization of the skyrmion crystal phase in thin-film antiferromagnets

Ricardo Zarzuela, Se Kwon Kim, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We investigate the formation and stability of the skyrmion crystal phase in antiferromagnetic thin films subjected to fieldlike torques such as, e.g., those induced by an electric…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 324 cited

Antidamping torque-induced switching in biaxial antiferromagnetic insulators

X. Z. Chen, R. Zarzuela, J. Zhang +8

We investigate the current-induced switching of the Neel order in NiO(001)/Pt heterostructures,which is manifested electrically via the spin Hall magnetoresistance. Significant rev…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 37 cited

Spin hydrodynamics in amorphous magnets

Hector Ochoa, Ricardo Zarzuela, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Spin superfluidity, i.e., coherent spin transport mediated by topologically stable textures, is limited by parasitic anisotropies rooted in relativistic interactions and spatial in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 13 cited

Magnetoelectric antiferromagnets as platforms for the manipulation of solitons

Ricardo Zarzuela, Se Kwon Kim, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We study the magnetic dynamics of magnetoelectric antiferromagnetic thin films, where an unconventional boundary ferromagnetism coexists with the bulk Néel phase below the Néel tem…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 23 cited

Switching of Magnetic Moments of Nanoparticles by Surface Acoustic Waves

J. Tejada, E. M. Chudnovsky, R. Zarzuela +4

We report evidence of the magnetization reversal in nanoparticles by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The experimental system consists of isolated magnetite nanoparticles dispersed o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 30 cited

Antiferromagnetic textures and dynamics on the surface of a heavy metal

Ricardo Zarzuela, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We investigate the formation and dynamics of spin textures in antiferromagnetic insulators adjacent to a heavy-metal substrate with strong spin-orbit interactions. Exchange couplin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 37 cited

Emergent gauge fields from curvature in single layers of transition-metal dichalcogenides

Hector Ochoa, Ricardo Zarzuela, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We analyze the electron dynamics in corrugated layers of transition-metal dichalcogenides. Due to the strong spin-orbit coupling, the intrinsic (Gaussian) curvature leads to an eme…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 228 cited

A Realization of the Haldane-Kane-Mele Model in a System of Localized Spins

Se Kwon Kim, Héctor Ochoa, Ricardo Zarzuela +1

We theoretically study a spin Hamiltonian for spin-orbit-coupled ferromagnets on the honeycomb lattice. We find that the effective Hamiltonian for magnons, a quanta of spin-wave ex…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Narrow Zero-Field Tunneling Resonance in Triclinic Mn Acetate Ribbons

I. Imaz, J. Espin, D. Maspoch +4

We report synthesis, structural characterization, and magnetic measurements of amorphous Mn-acetate ribbons with a triclinic short-range crystal order not previously seen in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Enhanced spin tunneling in a molecular magnet mixed with a superconductor

J. Tejada, R. Zarzuela, A. García-Santiago +4

We report characterization and magnetic studies of mixtures of micrometer-size ribbons of Mn acetate and micrometer-size particles of YBaCuO superconductor. Extremely narrow…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Acoustic waves generated by the spin precession

R. Zarzuela, E. M. Chudnovsky

We study generation of acoustic waves by a precessing spin of a nanoparticle deposited on the surface of a solid. Our approach elucidates macroscopic dynamics of the Einstein - de…