Antiferromagnetic opto-spintronics

P Němec, M Fiebig, T Kampfrath, AV Kimel - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Control and detection of spin order in ferromagnetic materials is the main principle enabling
magnetic information to be stored and read in current technologies. Antiferromagnetic …

Antiferromagnetic spintronics

T Jungwirth, X Marti, P Wadley, J Wunderlich - Nature nanotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
Antiferromagnetic materials are internally magnetic, but the direction of their ordered
microscopic moments alternates between individual atomic sites. The resulting zero net …

Electrical switching of an antiferromagnet

P Wadley, B Howells, J Železný, C Andrews, V Hills… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Antiferromagnets are hard to control by external magnetic fields because of the alternating
directions of magnetic moments on individual atoms and the resulting zero net …

First-principles design of spintronics materials

X Li, J Yang - National Science Review, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Spintronics is one of the most promising next generation information technology, which uses
the spins of electrons as information carriers and possesses potential advantages of …

Ultrafast optical manipulation of magnetic order

A Kirilyuk, AV Kimel, T Rasing - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
The interaction of subpicosecond laser pulses with magnetically ordered materials has
developed into a fascinating research topic in modern magnetism. From the discovery of …

Laser-induced intersite spin transfer

JK Dewhurst, P Elliott, S Shallcross, EKU Gross… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Laser pulses induce spin-selective charge flow that we show to generate dramatic changes
in the magnetic structure of materials, including a switching of magnetic order from …

Probing ferroelectrics using optical second harmonic generation

SA Denev, TTA Lummen, E Barnes… - Journal of the …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Nonlinear optics is an essential component of modern laser systems and optoelectronic
devices. It has also emerged as an important tool in probing the electronic, vibrational …

Magnetically brightened dark electron-phonon bound states in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

E Ergeçen, B Ilyas, D Mao, HC Po, MB Yilmaz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In van der Waals (vdW) materials, strong coupling between different degrees of freedom can
hybridize elementary excitations into bound states with mixed character,–. Correctly …

Nano-optical imaging and spectroscopy of order, phases, and domains in complex solids

JM Atkin, S Berweger, AC Jones… - Advances in …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The structure of our material world is characterized by a large hierarchy of length scales that
determines material properties and functions. Increasing spatial resolution in optical imaging …

Mn 2 C monolayer: a 2D antiferromagnetic metal with high Néel temperature and large spin–orbit coupling

L Hu, X Wu, J Yang - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
To realize antiferromagnetic spintronics in the nanoscale, it is highly desirable to identify
new nanometer-scale antiferromagnetic metals with both high Néel temperature and large …