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Antiferromagnets provide greater stability than their ferromagnetic counterparts, but antiferromagnetic spin textures and nanostructures also exhibit more complex, and often faster, dynamics, offering new functionalities for spintronics devices.
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Acknowledgements
O.G. acknowledges the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the ERC Synergy Grant SC2 (no. 610115), EU FET Open RIA Grant no. 766566, and the Transregional Collaborative Research Center (SFB/TRR) 173 SPIN+X. A.B. acknowledges the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence funding scheme, project number 262633 ‘QuSpin’ and the European Research Council via Advanced Grant no. 669442 ‘Insulatronics’. V.B. acknowledges the financial support of ANR (ANR-15-CE24-0015-01) and of KAUST (OSR-2015-CRG4-2626). Y.T. acknowledges FAME (an SRC STARnet centre sponsored by MARCO and DARPA).
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Gomonay, O., Baltz, V., Brataas, A. et al. Antiferromagnetic spin textures and dynamics. Nature Phys 14, 213–216 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0049-4
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