Yu-shiba-rusinov qubit

A Mishra, P Simon, T Hyart, M Trif - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Magnetic impurities in s-wave superconductors lead to spin-polarized Yu-Shiba-Rusinov
(YSR) in-gap states. Chains of magnetic impurities offer one of the most viable routes for the …

Ultrafast orbital Hall effect in metallic nanoribbons

O Busch, F Ziolkowski, B Göbel, I Mertig, J Henk - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
The orbital Hall effect can generate currents of angular momentum more efficiently than the
spin Hall effect in most metals. However, so far, it has only been understood as a steady …

Quantum classical approach to spin and charge pum** and the ensuing radiation in terahertz spintronics: Example of the ultrafast light-driven Weyl antiferromagnet …

A Suresh, BK Nikolić - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The interaction of a femtosecond laser pulse with magnetic materials has been intensely
studied for more than two decades in order to understand ultrafast demagnetization in single …

Microscopic theory of current-induced skyrmion transport and its application in disordered spin textures

E Östberg, E Viñas Boström, C Verdozzi - Frontiers in Physics, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Magnetic skyrmions hold great promise for realizing compact and stable
memory devices that can be manipulated at very low energy costs via electronic current …

Microscopic theory of light-induced ultrafast skyrmion excitation in transition metal films

E Viñas Boström, A Rubio, C Verdozzi - npj Computational Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topological excitations of great promise for compact and efficient
memory storage. However, to interface skyrmionics with electronic devices requires efficient …

Indirect optical manipulation of the antiferromagnetic order of insulating NiO by ultrafast interfacial energy transfer

S Wust, C Seibel, H Meer, P Herrgen, C Schmitt… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We report the ultrafast,(sub) picosecond reduction of the antiferromagnetic order of the
insulating NiO thin film in a Pt/NiO bilayer. This reduction of the antiferromagnetic order is …

Ultrafast optical generation of antiferromagnetic meron-antimeron pairs with conservation of topological charge

S Ghosh, S Blügel, Y Mokrousov - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
We propose a new mechanism to produce a meron-antimeron pair in a two dimensional
antiferromagnet with an ultrafast laser pulse via a thermal Schwinger mechanism. Unlike …

Chiral Mechanical Effect of the Tightly Focused Chiral Vector Vortex Fields Interacting with Particles

Q Zhang, Z Liu, Z Cheng - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The coupling of the spin-orbit angular momentum of photons in a focused spatial region can
enhance the localized optical field's chirality. In this paper, a scheme for producing a …

Photocontrol of spin scalar chirality in centrosymmetric itinerant magnets

A Ono, Y Akagi - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Noncoplanar magnetic structures, such as magnetic skyrmions, are characterized by spin
chirality and usually favored by antisymmetric exchange interactions in noncentrosymmetric …

Parametrically driven THz magnon-pairs: Predictions toward ultimately fast and minimally dissipative switching

G Fabiani, JH Mentink - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Finding ways to achieve switching between magnetic states at the fastest possible timescale
that simultaneously dissipates the least amount of energy is one of the main challenges in …