Colloquium: Nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials

A De La Torre, DM Kennes, M Claassen, S Gerber… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

Anomalous hall antiferromagnets

L Šmejkal, AH MacDonald, J Sinova… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The Hall effect, in which a current flows perpendicular to an electrical bias, has been
prominent in the history of condensed matter physics. Appearing variously in classical …

Giant and tunneling magnetoresistance in unconventional collinear antiferromagnets with nonrelativistic spin-momentum coupling

L Šmejkal, AB Hellenes, R González-Hernández… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Giant and tunneling magnetoresistance are physical phenomena used for reading
information in commercial spintronic devices. The effects rely on a conserved spin current …

Exciton-coupled coherent magnons in a 2D semiconductor

YJ Bae, J Wang, A Scheie, J Xu, DG Chica… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The recent discoveries of two-dimensional (2D) magnets,,,,–and their stacking into van der
Waals structures,,,–have expanded the horizon of 2D phenomena. One exciting application …

Magnetic order and symmetry in the 2D semiconductor CrSBr

K Lee, AH Dismukes, EJ Telford, RA Wiscons… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The advent of two-dimensional (2D) magnets offers unprecedented control over electrons
and spins. A key factor in determining exchange coupling and magnetic order is symmetry …

Giant nonreciprocal second-harmonic generation from antiferromagnetic bilayer CrI3

Z Sun, Y Yi, T Song, G Clark, B Huang, Y Shan, S Wu… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Layered antiferromagnetism is the spatial arrangement of ferromagnetic layers with
antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling. The van der Waals magnet chromium triiodide (CrI3) …

Spin current from sub-terahertz-generated antiferromagnetic magnons

J Li, CB Wilson, R Cheng, M Lohmann, M Kavand… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Spin dynamics in antiferromagnets has much shorter timescales than in ferromagnets,
offering attractive properties for potential applications in ultrafast devices,–. However, spin …

Tunable interaction between excitons and hybridized magnons in a layered semiconductor

GM Diederich, J Cenker, Y Ren, J Fonseca… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The interaction between distinct excitations in solids is of both fundamental interest and
technological importance. One such interaction is the coupling between an exciton, a …

New dimension in magnetism and superconductivity: 3D and curvilinear nanoarchitectures

D Makarov, OM Volkov, A Kákay… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, the primary field, where curvature has been at the heart of research, is the
theory of general relativity. In recent studies, however, the impact of curvilinear geometry …

Spin transport and spin torque in antiferromagnetic devices

J Železný, P Wadley, K Olejník, A Hoffmann, H Ohno - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Ferromagnets are key materials for sensing and memory applications. In contrast,
antiferromagnets, which represent the more common form of magnetically ordered materials …