The talk by Jairo Sinova at the APS March Meeting in LA overflowed into the corridor - a larger room would have helped, but the interest in the field is clear.
News
05.03.2018 – Standing room only at the March Meeting talk on Antiferromagnetic Spintronics
09.02.2018 – Antiferromagnetic resonance in Mn2Au with Neel Spin-Orbit Torques
The team of Jure Demnsar, in collaboration with Gomonay and Sinova, have been able to excite antiferromagnetic resonance in Mn2Au by exploiting the Neel spin-orbit Torque.
N. Bhattacharjee, A.A. Sapozhnik, S.Yu. Bodnar, V.Yu. Grigorev, S.Y. Agustsson, J. Cao, D. Dominko, M. Obergfell, O. Gomonay, J. Sinova, M. Kläui, H.-J. Elmers, M. Jourdan, J. Demsar
Néel Spin Orbit Torque driven antiferromagnetic resonance in Mn$_{2}$Au probed by time-domain THz spectroscopy
arXiv:1802.03199
31.01.2018 – Reservoir Computing with Skyrmions
Prychynenko, Diana; Sitte, Matthias; Litzius, Kai; Krüger, Benjamin; Bourianoff, George; Kläui, Mathias; Sinova, Jairo; Everschor-Sitte, Karin
Magnetic Skyrmion as a Nonlinear Resistive Element: A Potential Building Block for Reservoir Computing
Phys. Rev. Applied 9, 014034 (2018)
30.01.2018 – RMP review on Spin-Orbit Torques in FM and AFM
A full review of current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnets and antiferromagnets is now available as a pre-print: A. Manchon, I.M. Miron, T. Jungwirth, Jairo Sinova, J. Zelezný, A. Thiaville, K. Garello, P. Gambardella; Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems; arXiv:1801.09636
30.01.2018 – Visit of Babak Seradjeh
We welcome today's guest, Babak Seradjeh, from Indiana University, who is an expert in topological insulators and superconductors, Majorana fermions in condensed matter systems, and realization and manipulation of fractional particles.
He will be discussing Universal fluctuations of Floquet topological invariants at low frequencies. Please join us to hear about the newest development in this hot topic.
26.01.2018 – Our prediction of Neel Spin-Orbit torques in Mn2Au realized experimentally
The Kläui group in collaboration with the Sinova group demonstrate technologically feasible read-out and writing of digital information in antiferromagnets / Basic principle for ultrafast and stable magnetic memory. This was achieved by our prediction of Neel Spin-Orbit Torques three years ago. You can see the press release here.
S. Y. Bodnar et al., Writing and reading antiferromagnetic Mn2Au by Néel spin-orbit torques and large anisotropic magnetoresistance, Nature Communications 9, 24 (2018), DOI:10.1038/s41467-017-02780-x
23.01.2018 – Visit of Igor Lukyanchuk
We welcome today's guest, Igor Lukyanchuk, from Laboratorie de Physique des Solides, University of Picardy, (Amien, France) who is an expert in ferroelectrics and multiferroic materials.
He will be discussing Topological excitations in nano-scale ferroelectrics. Please join us to hear about the newest development in this hot topic.The presentation of talk can be found here.
22.01.2018 – Visit of Andre Thiaville
We welcome today's guest, Andre Thiaville, from Laboratorie de Physique des Solides ORSAY. He will be discussing Skyrmion in symmetric bilayers. Please join us to hear about the newest development in this hot topic. Presentation of his talk you can find here.
19.12.2017 – Olena Gomonay receives DFG grant
We congratulate Olena (Helen) Gomonay on obtaining her first DFG research grant “SHARP: Spintronics witHAntiferRomagntes and Phonos”. Well done Helen!
The proposed research project will open and explore new ways to detect and manipulate antiferromagnets using phonons and magneto-elastic coupling effects.
12.12.2017 – Visit to the University of Twente
Prof. Jairo Sinova and Bertrand Dupé are visiting the group of Prof. Paul Kelly at the University of Twente for a couple of days. It is a pleasure to visit the group of Prof. Kelly and benefit from his long experience in spin transport calculations from ab initio.