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Skin Effect of Nonlinear Optical Responses in Antiferromagnets
Hang Zhou, Rui-Chun Xiao, Shu-Hui Zhang +8
Nonlinear optics plays important roles in the research of fundamental physics and the applications of high-performance optoelectronic devices. The bulk nonlinear optical responses…
X-type stacking in cross-chain antiferromagnets
Shui-Sen Zhang, Zi-An Wang, Bo Li +11
Physical phenomena in condensed matter normally arise from the collective effect of all atoms, while selectively addressing a lone atomic sublattice by external stimulus is elusive…
Geometric density of states of electronic structures for local responses: Phase information from the amplitudes of STM measurement
Shu-Hui Zhang, Jin Yang, Ding-Fu Shao +3
Electronic band structures underlie the physical properties of crystalline materials, their geometrical exploration renovates the conventional cognition and brings about novel appl…
Prediction of Giant Tunneling Magnetoresistance in RuO/TiO/RuO (110) Antiferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions
Yuan-Yuan Jiang, Zi-An Wang, Kartik Samanta +6
Using first-principles quantum-transport calculations, we investigate spin-dependent electronic and transport properties of antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions (AFMTJs) that consist…
Magnetic Antiskyrmions in Two-Dimensional van der Waals Magnets Engineered by Layer Stacking
Kai Huang, Edward Schwartz, Ding-Fu Shao +2
Magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions are topologically protected quasiparticles exhibiting a whirling spin texture in real space. Antiskyrmions offer some advantages over skyrmions…
Tunneling valley Hall effect driven by tilted Dirac fermions
Shu-Hui Zhang, Ding-Fu Shao, Zi-An Wang +3
Valleytronics is a research field utilizing a valley degree of freedom of electrons for information processing and storage. A strong valley polarization is critical for realistic v…
Nearly perfect spin polarization of noncollinear antiferromagnets
Gautam Gurung, Mohamed Elekhtiar, Qing-Qing Luo Ding-Fu Shao +1
Ferromagnets with high spin polarization are known to be valuable for spintronics--a research field that exploits the spin degree of freedom in information technologies. Recently,…
Switchable anomalous Hall effects in polar-stacked 2D antiferromagnet MnBi2Te4
Tengfei Cao, Ding-Fu Shao, Kai Huang +2
Van der Waals (vdW) assembly allows controlling symmetry of two-dimensional (2D) materials that determines their physical properties. Especially interesting is the recently demonst…
Néel Spin Currents in Antiferromagnets
Ding-Fu Shao, Yuan-Yuan Jiang, Jun Ding +7
Ferromagnets are known to support spin-polarized currents that control various spin-dependent transport phenomena useful for spintronics. On the contrary, fully compensated antifer…
Anomalous anisotropy of spin current in a cubic spin source with noncollinear antiferromagnetism
Cuimei Cao, Shiwei Chen, Rui-Chun Xiao +10
Cubic materials host high crystal symmetry and hence are not expected to support anisotropy in transport phenomena. In contrast to this common expectation, here we report an anomal…
Classification of second harmonic generation effect in magnetically ordered materials
Rui-Chun Xiao, Ding-Fu Shao, Wei Gan +6
The relationship between magnetic order and the second harmonic generation (SHG) effect is a fundamental area of study in condensed matter physics with significant practical implic…
Stabilizing polar phases in binary metal oxides by hole doping
Tengfei Cao, Guodong Ren, Ding-Fu Shao +2
The recent observation of ferroelectricity in the metastable phases of binary metal oxides, such as HfO2, ZrO2, Hf0.5Zr0.5O2, and Ga2O3, has garnered a lot of attention. These meta…
Spin-Neutral Tunneling Anomalous Hall Effect
Ding-Fu Shao, Shu-Hui Zhang, Rui-Chun Xiao +4
Anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is a fundamental spin-dependent transport property that is widely used in spintronics. It is generally expected that currents carrying net spin polariza…
Ferroelectric control of magnetic skyrmions in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures
Kai Huang, Ding-Fu Shao, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Magnetic skyrmions are chiral nanoscale spin textures which are usually induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Recently, magnetic skyrmions have been observed in two-d…
Tilted spin current generated by the collinear antiferromagnet RuO2
Arnab Bose, Nathaniel J. Schreiber, Rakshit Jain +8
We report measurements demonstrating that when the Neel vector of the collinear antiferromagnet RuO2 is appropriately canted relative to the sample plane, the antiferromagnet gener…
Transport Spin Polarization of Noncollinear Antiferromagnetic Antiperovskites
Gautam Gurung, Ding-Fu Shao, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Spin-polarized currents play a key role in spintronics. Recently, it has been found that antiferromagnets with a non-spin-degenerate band structure can efficiently spin-polarize el…
Efficient field-free perpendicular magnetization switching by a magnetic spin Hall effect
Shuai Hu, Ding-Fu Shao, Huanglin Yang +6
Current induced spin-orbit torques driven by the conventional spin Hall effect are widely used to manipulate the magnetization. This approach, however, is nondeterministic and inef…
Robust wavefront dislocations of Friedel oscillations in gapped graphene
Shu-Hui Zhang, Jin Yang, Ding-Fu Shao +2
Friedel oscillation is a well-known wave phenomenon, which represents the oscillatory response of electron waves to imperfection. By utilizing the pseudospin-momentum locking in ga…
Spin-neutral currents for spintronics
Ding-Fu Shao, Shu-Hui Zhang, Ming Li +2
Electric currents carrying a net spin polarization are widely used in spintronics, whereas globally spin-neutral currents are expected to play no role in spin-dependent phenomena.…
Giant Transport Anisotropy in ReS Revealed via Nanoscale Conducting Path Control
Dawei Li, Shuo Sun, Zhiyong Xiao +5
The low in-plane symmetry in layered 1T'-ReS results in strong band anisotropy, while its manifestation in the electronic properties is challenging to resolve due to the lack o…
Spin photogalvanic effect in two-dimensional collinear antiferromagnets
Rui-Chun Xiao, Ding-Fu Shao, Yu-Hang Li +1
Spin photogalvanic effect (SPGE) is an efficient method to generate a spin current by photoexcitation in a contactless and ultra-fast way. In two-dimensional (2D) collinear antifer…
Interfacial crystal Hall effect reversible by ferroelectric polarization
Ding-Fu Shao, Jun Ding, Gautam Gurung +2
The control of spin-dependent properties by voltage, not involving magnetization switching, has significant advantages for low-power spintronics. Here, we predict that the interfac…
Electrical Detection of Ferroelectric-like Metals through Nonlinear Hall Effect
Rui-Chun Xiao, Ding-Fu Shao, Wenjuan Huang +1
Ferroelectric-like metals are a relatively rare class of materials that have ferroelectric-like distortion and metallic conductivity. LiOsO is the first demonstrated and the mo…
Controlling spin current polarization through non-collinear antiferromagnetism
T. Nan, C. X. Quintela, J. Irwin +20
The spin-Hall effect describes the interconversion of charge currents and spin currents, enabling highly efficient manipulation of magnetization for spintronics. Symmetry condition…