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most citedCurrent-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Ab initio study of magnetic CuSb compounds related to antiferromagnetic CuMnAs

Vojtěch Pařízek, Jakub Železný

The antiferromagnetic metal CuMnAs has become a workhorse of antiferromagnetic spintronics. A broad range of phenomena has been demonstrated in this material, most notably current-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Symmetr: a Python package for determining symmetry properties of crystals

Jakub Železný

Condensed matter compounds typically form crystals, which break the rotational and translational invariance of space but remain invariant under a discrete set of symmetry operation…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Spin Hall magnetoresistance at the altermagnetic insulator/Pt interface

Miina Leiviskä, Reza Firouzmandi, Kyo-Hoon Ahn +22

The resistance of a heavy metal can be modulated by an adjacent magnetic material through the combined effects of the spin Hall effect, inverse spin Hall effect, and dissipation of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Anisotropic magnetoresistance in altermagnetic MnTe

Ruben Dario Gonzalez Betancourt, Jan Zubáč, Kevin Geishendorf +12

Recently, MnTe was established as an altermagnetic material that hosts spin-polarized electronic bands as well as anomalous transport effects like the anomalous Hall effect. In add…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 13 cited

Anomalous Nernst effect in MnNiN thin films

Sebastian Beckert, João Godinho, Freya Johnson +13

The observation of a sizable anomalous Hall effect in magnetic materials with vanishing magnetization has renewed interest in understanding and engineering this phenomenon. Antifer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 411 cited

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-hall2021★ 37 cited

Robust spin-transfer torque and magnetoresistance in non-collinear antiferromagnetic junctions

Srikrishna Ghosh, Aurelien Manchon, Jakub Železný

Ferromagnetic spin-valves and tunneling junctions are crucial for spintronics applications and are one of the most fundamental spintronics devices. Motivated by the potential uniqu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 3 cited

Theoretical Study of Extrinsic Spin-current Generation in Ferromagnets Induced by Anisotropic Spin-flip Scattering

Yuta Yahagi, Jakub Zelezny, Daisuke Miura +1

The spin Hall effect (SHE) and the magnetic spin Hall effect (MSHE) are responsible for electrical spin current generation, which is a key concept of modern spintronics. We theoret…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Unidirectional magnetoresistance and spin-orbit torque in NiMnSb

J. Železný, Z. Fang, K. Olejník +9

Spin-dependent transport phenomena due to relativistic spin-orbit coupling and broken space-inversion symmetry are often difficult to interpret microscopically, in particular when…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 40 cited

Atomically sharp domain walls in an antiferromagnet

Filip Krizek, Sonka Reimers, Zdeněk Kašpar +18

The interest in understanding scaling limits of magnetic textures such as domain walls spans the entire field of magnetism from its relativistic quantum fundamentals to application…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 18 cited

Electrical transport properties of bulk tetragonal CuMnAs

J Volny, D. Wagenknecht, J Zelezny +7

Temperature-dependent resistivity and magnetoresistance are measured in bulk tetragonal phase of antiferromagnetic CuMnAs and the latter is found to be anisotropic both due to stru…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 7 cited

Tunning Spin Hall conductivities in GeTe by Ferroelectric Polarization

Wenxu Zhang, Zhao Teng, Huizhong Zeng +3

Controlling charge-spin current conversion by electric fields is crucial in spintronic devices, which can be realized in diatom ferroelectric semiconductor GeTe where it is establi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 183 cited

Imaging and writing magnetic domains in the non-collinear antiferromagnet MnSn

Helena Reichlova, Tomas Janda, Joao Godinho +12

Harnessing the unique properties of non-collinear antiferromagnets (AFMs) will be essential for exploiting the full potential of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Indeed, many of the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 113 cited

Electrical switching of perpendicular magnetization in L10 FePt single layer

Liang Liu, Jihang Yu, Rafael González-Hernández +12

Electrical manipulation of magnetization is essential for integration of magnetic functionalities such as magnetic memories and magnetic logic devices into electronic circuits. The…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 158 cited

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.mes-hall2018★ 1.7k cited

Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems

A. Manchon, J. Zelezný, I. M. Miron +5

Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin unde…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 27 cited

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.mes-hall2017★ 2 cited

Spin-transport, spin-torque and memory in antiferromagnetic devices: Part of a collection of reviews on antiferromagnetic spintronics

J. Železný, P. Wadley, K. Olejník. A. Hoffmann +1

Ferromagnets are key materials for sensing and memory applications. In contrast, antiferromagnets that represent the more common form of magnetically ordered materials, have so far…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 102 cited

Spin Hall effect emerging from a chiral magnetic lattice without spin-orbit coupling

Yang Zhang, Jakub Zelezny, Yan Sun +2

The spin Hall effect (SHE), which converts a charge current into a transverse spin current, has long been believed to be a phenomenon induced by the spin--orbit coupling. Here, we…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Control of antiferromagnetic spin axis orientation in bilayer Fe/CuMnAs films

P. Wadley, K. W. Edmonds, M. R. Shahedkhah +10

Using x-ray magnetic circular and linear dichroism techniques, we demonstrate a collinear exchange coupling between an epitaxial antiferromagnet, tetragonal CuMnAs, and an Fe surfa…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 328 cited

Spin-polarized current in non-collinear antiferromagnets

Jakub Zelezny, Yang Zhang, Claudia Felser +1

Noncollinear antiferromagnets, such as MnSn and MnIr, were recently shown to be analogous to ferromagnets in that they have a large anomalous Hall effect. Here we show that…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 148 cited

Optical determination of the Neel vector in a CuMnAs thin-film antiferromagnet

V. Saidl, P. Nemec, P. Wadley +12

Recent breakthroughs in electrical detection and manipulation of antiferromagnets have opened a new avenue in the research of non-volatile spintronic devices. Antiparallel spin sub…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 1.5k cited

Electrical switching of an antiferromagnet

Peter Wadley, Bryn Howells, Jakub Zelezny +10

Louis Neel pointed out in his Nobel lecture that while abundant and interesting from a theoretical viewpoint, antiferromagnets did not seem to have any applications. Indeed, the al…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 520 cited

Relativistic Neel-order fields induced by electrical current in antiferromagnets

J. Zelezny, H. Gao, K. Vyborny +6

We predict that a lateral electrical current in antiferromagnets can induce non-equilibrium Néel order fields, i.e. fields whose sign alternates between the spin sublattices, which…