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Antiferromagnetic spin textures and dynamics

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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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Fig. 1: Torques and dynamics of antiferromagnets.
Fig. 2: Antiferromagnetic bits.

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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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  1. Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    O. Gomonay

  2. National Technical University of Ukraine (KPI), Kyiv, Ukraine

    O. Gomonay

  3. SPINTEC, Univ. Grenoble Alpes/CNRS/INAC-CEA, Grenoble, France

    V. Baltz

  4. Center for Quantum Spintronics, Departments of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    A. Brataas

  5. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Y. Tserkovnyak

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