Magnetic properties and materials articles within Nature

Featured

  • Article |

    Wafer-scale realization of a nanoscale magnetic tunnel junction hosting a single, ambient skyrmion enables its large readout, efficient switching, and compatibility with lateral manipulation, and thereby provides the backbone for all-electrical skyrmionic device architectures.

    • Shaohai Chen
    • , James Lourembam
    •  & Anjan Soumyanarayanan

  • Article |

    Examining the in-plane spin components of the noncoplanar antiferromagnet manganese ditelluride provides spectroscopic and computational evidence of materials with a new type of plaid-like spin splitting in the antiferromagnetic ground state.

    • Yu-Peng Zhu
    • , Xiaobing Chen
    •  & Chang Liu

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Using photoemission spectroscopy and ab initio calculations, evidence is given of two distinct unconventional mechanisms of lifted Kramers spin degeneracy generated by the altermagnetic phase of centrosymmetric MnTe with vanishing net magnetization.

    • J. Krempaský
    • , L. Šmejkal
    •  & T. Jungwirth

  • Article |

    Evidence for a quantum magnetic analogue of a supersolid appears in a recently synthesized antiferromagnet showing a strong magnetocaloric effect of the spin supersolid phase with potential for applications in sub-kelvin refrigeration.

    • Junsen Xiang
    • , Chuandi Zhang
    •  & Gang Su

  • Article |

    We establish a spin nematic phase in the square-lattice iridate Sr2IrO4 and find a complete breakdown of coherent magnon excitations at short-wavelength scales, suggesting a many-body quantum entanglement in the antiferromagnetic state.

    • Hoon Kim
    • , Jin-Kwang Kim
    •  & B. J. Kim

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Transmission electron microscopy is used to observe three-dimensional topological solitons known as hopfions that in a chiral magnet are found to form rings around skyrmion strings, and a nucleation protocol for these rings is provided.

    • Fengshan Zheng
    • , Nikolai S. Kiselev
    •  & Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Minimization of kinetic energy leads to ferromagnetic correlations between itinerant electrons in MoSe2/WS2 moiré lattices even in the absence of exchange interactions.

    • L. Ciorciaro
    • , T. Smoleński
    •  & A. İmamoğlu

  • Article |

    In the layered magnetic semiconductor CrSBr, emergent light–matter hybrids (polaritons) increase the spectral bandwidth of correlations between the magnetic, electronic and optical properties, enabling largely tunable optical responses to applied magnetic fields and magnons.

    • Florian Dirnberger
    • , Jiamin Quan
    •  & Vinod M. Menon

  • Article |

    The magnetic phases of the geometrically frustrated triangular lattice Hubbard model are directly investigated using ultracold fermionic atoms, indicating a possible transition to ferromagnetism at a filling of 1.2.

    • Muqing Xu
    • , Lev Haldar Kendrick
    •  & Markus Greiner

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Our experimental proof of chiral phonons demonstrates a degree of freedom in condensed matter that is of fundamental importance and opens the door to exploration of emergent phenomena based on chiral bosons.

    • Hiroki Ueda
    • , Mirian García-Fernández
    •  & Urs Staub

  • Article
    | Open Access

    All-optical, mode-selective manipulation of the crystal lattice can be used to enhance and stabilize ferromagnetism in YTiO3 well above its equilibrium ordering temperature and for many nanoseconds, enabling dynamic engineering of practically useful non-equilibrium functionalities in fluctuating electronic systems.

    • A. S. Disa
    • , J. Curtis
    •  & A. Cavalleri

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Nanoscale magnetic fluctuations are spatiotemporally resolved beyond conventional resolution limits using coherent correlation imaging, in which frames in Fourier space are recorded and analysed using an iterative hierarchical clustering algorithm.

    • Christopher Klose
    • , Felix Büttner
    •  & Bastian Pfau

  • Article
    | Open Access

    The authors report observation of tunnelling magnetoresistance in an all-antiferromagnetic tunnel junction consisting of Mn3Sn/MgO/Mn3Sn, laying the foundation for the development of ultrafast and efficient spintronic devices using antiferromagnets.

    • Xianzhe Chen
    • , Tomoya Higo
    •  & Satoru Nakatsuji

  • Review Article |

    Recent key developments in the exploration of kagome materials are reviewed, including fundamental concepts of a kagome lattice, realizations of Chern and Weyl topological magnetism, flat-band many-body correlations, and unconventional charge-density waves and superconductivity.

    • Jia-Xin Yin
    • , Biao Lian
    •  & M. Zahid Hasan

  • Article |

    Analysis of the antiferromagnetic ordered phase of kagome lattice FeGe suggests that charge density wave is the result of a combination of electronic-correlations-driven antiferromagnetic order and instability driven by van Hove singularities.

    • Xiaokun Teng
    • , Lebing Chen
    •  & Pengcheng Dai

  • Article |

    Excitons in the electronvolts range are found to couple strongly to coherent magnons in hundreds of microelectronvolts in an atomically thin two-dimensional antiferromagnetic semiconductor.

    • Youn Jue Bae
    • , Jue Wang
    •  & Xiaoyang Zhu

  • Article
    | Open Access

    An iron–cobalt–nickel–tantalum–aluminium multicomponent alloy with ferromagnetic matrix and paramagnetic coherent nanoparticles is described, showing high tensile strength and ductility, along with very low coercivity.

    • Liuliu Han
    • , Fernando Maccari
    •  & Dierk Raabe

  • Article |

    An alternating stack of a candidate spin liquid and a superconductor shows a spontaneous vortex phase in the superconducting state without magnetism in the normal state. This indicates the presence of  unconventional magnetic ordering independent of the superconductor.

    • Eylon Persky
    • , Anders V. Bjørlig
    •  & Beena Kalisky

  • Article |

    Multiple complementary optical signatures confirm the persistence of ferroelectricity and inversion-symmetry-breaking magnetic order down to monolayer NiI2, introducing the physics of type-II multiferroics into the area of van der Waals materials.

    • Qian Song
    • , Connor A. Occhialini
    •  & Riccardo Comin

  • Article |

    Decoupling spin-polarized edge states using substitutional N-atom dopants along the edges of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) reveals giant spin splitting of a N-dopant edge state, and supports the predicted emergent magnetic order in ZGNRs.

    • Raymond E. Blackwell
    • , Fangzhou Zhao
    •  & Felix R. Fischer

  • Article |

    A study demonstrates the synthesis and characterization of a two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructure hosting artificial heavy fermions, providing a tunable platform for investigations of heavy-fermion physics.

    • Viliam Vaňo
    • , Mohammad Amini
    •  & Peter Liljeroth

  • Article |

    Using scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy, fractional edge excitations are observed in nanographene spin chains, enabling the potential to study strongly correlated phases in purely organic materials.

    • Shantanu Mishra
    • , Gonçalo Catarina
    •  & Roman Fasel

  • Article |

    The pressure dependence and magnetic field dependence of the specific heat of a quantum magnet, SrCu2(BO3)2, demonstrate that its phase diagram contains a line of first-order transitions terminating at a critical point, in analogy with water.

    • J. Larrea Jiménez
    • , S. P. G. Crone
    •  & F. Mila

  • Article |

    A family of topological antiferromagnetic spin textures is realized at room temperature in α-Fe2O3, and their reversible and field-free stabilization using a Kibble–Zurek-like temperature cycling is demonstrated.

    • Hariom Jani
    • , Jheng-Cyuan Lin
    •  & Paolo G. Radaelli

  • Article |

    Non-volatile electrical switching of magnetic order in an orbital Chern insulator is experimentally demonstrated using a moiré heterostructure and analysis shows that the effect is driven by topological edge states.

    • H. Polshyn
    • , J. Zhu
    •  & A. F. Young

  • Article |

    Microscale magnetic devices containing nanoscale spin helices produce an inductance comparable in magnitude to that of a commercial inductor, in a volume about a million times smaller.

    • Tomoyuki Yokouchi
    • , Fumitaka Kagawa
    •  & Yoshinori Tokura

  • Article |

    Aluminium- and gallium-doped iron compounds show a large anomalous Nernst effect owing to a topological electronic structure, and their films are potentially suitable for designing low-cost, flexible microelectronic thermoelectric generators.

    • Akito Sakai
    • , Susumu Minami
    •  & Satoru Nakatsuji

  • Article |

    Room-temperature electrical switching of a topological antiferromagnetic state in polycrystalline Mn3Sn thin films is demonstrated using the same protocol as that used for conventional ferromagnetic metals.

    • Hanshen Tsai
    • , Tomoya Higo
    •  & Satoru Nakatsuji

  • Article |

    Study of WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices reveals the phase diagram of the triangular-lattice Hubbard model, including a Mott insulating state at half-filling and a possible magnetic quantum phase transition near 0.6 filling.

    • Yanhao Tang
    • , Lizhong Li
    •  & Kin Fai Mak

  • Article |

    Pure spin currents are simultaneously generated and detected electrically through sub-terahertz magnons in the antiferromagnetic insulator Cr2O3, demonstrating the potential of magnon excitations in antiferromagnets for high-frequency spintronic devices.

    • Junxue Li
    • , C. Blake Wilson
    •  & Jing Shi

  • Letter |

    Magnetic-flux noise measurements with a SQUID-based spectrometer demonstrate the presence of a magnetic monopole plasma in Dy2Ti2O7.

    • Ritika Dusad
    • , Franziska K. K. Kirschner
    •  & J. C. Séamus Davis

Browse broader subjects

Browse Magnetic properties and materials across other nature.com journals