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The electrical generation of spin signals is of central interest for spintronics, where graphene stands as a relevant platform as its spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is tuned by proximity effects. Here, we propose spin-charge interconversion of maximal efficiency in graphene, obtained by adjusting the spin entanglement properties by tuning the SOC.

This study reports real-space, layer-resolved magnetic imaging of the van der Waals antiferromagnet (Fe,Co)₃GaTe₂ using SPLEEM, revealing A-type interlayer coupling, intrinsic chiral spin textures and enabling controlled writing of antiferromagnetic skyrmions.

Researchers demonstrate field-free magnetisation switching in perpendicular magnetic anisotropy systems using spin reorientation and orbital Hall effects. This approach enables low power operation and scalable spintronic memory devices.

This study achieves ultrafast all-electrical perpendicular magnetization switching with a pulse width of 16 ps and an energy consumption of 41 fJ/bit in a CoTb/Ti/CoFeB/MgO heterostructure, enabled by combining the in-plane and out-of-plane spin current.

This study demonstrates gate-controlled inversion of large spin signals near charge neutrality points in graphene and its superlattices, probed via pure spin currents, which arises from magnetic proximity-induced spin splitting.

Chaotic frequency comb, possessing the key metrics of intrinsic random amplitude, phase, and frequency modulation of comb lines, emerges as a novel chaotic source in information processing. Here, the authors propose and theoretically demonstrate magnonic chaotic frequency combs based on ultra-strong magnon-magnon coupling mechanism.

This study reveals how collective spin excitations called magnons lose their spin in antiferromagnetic insulators, enabling long-distance spin transport and offering new design principles for future low-power spintronic technologies.

Conventional spin-orbit torques are limited by symmetry. Here, the ferroelectric domain structure of multiferroic bismuth ferrite is engineered to manipulate the orientation of magnon spin current, enabling field-free type-x magnetic switching.

This study uses Lorentz transmission electron microscopy to reveal current-driven rotational motion of skyrmion and antiskyrmion assemblies with opposite senses of rotation, showing that the dynamics are guided by topology and independent of the current direction.

Chern ferromagnetism is established in twisted bilayer MoTe₂ devices at large twist angles. Here, the authors observe evidence of antiferromagnetic ground states with zero Hall resistance at an intermediate twist angle around three degrees, demonstrating the sensitivity of the magnetic ground state.

Combinatorial optimization challenges conventional computing due to high computational costs. Here, Yang et al. demonstrate a probabilistic processor for quadratic assignment problems, achieving fast and energy-efficient stochastic optimization.

Efficient electrical control of domain walls underpins fast, low-energy magnetic memories. Wu et al report field-free domain wall velocities of 1 km s⁻¹ at 20 MA cm⁻² in ferrimagnetic NiCo₂O₄, arising from giant nonadiabatic spin-transfer torque.

Epitaxial CuO thin films exhibit crystal-symmetry-dependent orbital Rashba–Edelstein effects, enabling anisotropic orbital torque generation. The work reveals how crystal symmetry governs orbital angular momentum transport in oxide spintronic systems.

Femtosecond laser pulse-induced coherent helicity switching of magnetic vortices in permalloy disks on picosecond timescales is reported.

Nested skyrmion bags are topological magnetic structures with tunable topological charge that offer promise for spintronic devices. By combining micromagnetic simulations, Thiele equation analysis, and machine learning, the authors reveal the stability, current-driven dynamics, and efficient prediction of the skyrmion Hall angle in these structures, and demonstrate a proof-of-concept demultiplexer device.

Recently there has been interest in using the orbital Hall effect to drive the magnetization of an adjacent ferromagnet. One metal, Tantalum, has been proposed a strong source of orbital current. Here, Liu and Zhu argue that the claimed orbital torques in Tantalum arise instead from self-induced spin-orbit torques in the adjacent ferromagnet.

Spin torques generated via the spin-Hall effect in CoFeB/W/MgO are found to stabilize magnetization in a high-energy anti-parallel state relative to an applied magnetic field. This observation serves as a platform for studying far-from-equilibrium spin dynamics and holds promise for realizing unconventional computing paradigms.

Nanoscale RuO₂ thin films exhibit giant third-order longitudinal electrical transport and Hall effect at room temperature, making it a strong altermagnetic candidate material.

The creation of stable and isolated magnetic hopfions—three-dimensional topological solitons—has remained experimentally challenging. Now the laser-induced nucleation of hopfions has been achieved in a chiral magnet.

Exchange bias, where an adjacent antiferromagnet leads to an offset magnetization loop in a ferromagnet is a critical effect in magnetic memory devices. Here, Pellet-Mary et al introduce a “lateral exchange bias”, allowing control of the Neel vector in bilayer samples of CrSBr via laterally adjacent odd layered segments.

The recent discovery of orbital torques, which employ the orbital angular momentum of Bloch electrons to switch the magnetisation of an adjacent ferromagnet, has motivated the search for orbitronic materials displaying strong orbital dynamics. Here, the authors demonstrate that bulk holes in five common semiconductors exhibit a large orbital Hall conductivity of order 10³(h/e)Ω⁻¹cm⁻¹.

Reducing dissipation when generating spin currents remains a central challenge in spintronics. Now, an artificial ferrimagnet is shown to produce spin current output and simultaneously lower magnetic damping.

A superconducting layer placed between two ferromagnetic insulators can drive an antiferromagnetic exchange coupling between them. Here, the authors demonstrate that such an exchange coupling promotes non-volatile bistable memory states and repeatable “absolute” switching in GdN/V/GdN, where the device exhibits a superconducting transition only when the two ferromagnets have anti-parallel magnetization.

Using circularly polarized inelastic X-ray scattering, the authors map spin-wave (magnon) excitations in the altermagnet CrSb and detect a reversible chiral signal for the first time, establishing a practical method to probe altermagnetic magnons.

This work predicts the current-induced control of magnetism by orbital exchange interaction and provides formal framework treating the orbital exchange interaction, not only limited to conventional ferromagnetic systems.

Controlling the dynamics of magnons at terahertz frequencies is important for fast and efficient information processing devices. Now optical excitation is shown to enable ultrafast manipulation of magnon spectra in an insulating antiferromagnet.

Mechanisms for generating spin-polarized currents may be helpful for applications. Now one such mechanism that uses the unusual Landau-level spectrum of WSe₂ under a strong magnetic field is demonstrated.

Spin light-emitting diodes convert electrically injected carrier spin into circularly polarized light. This Review highlights advances in spin injectors and emitter materials, and strategies for high electrically controlled polarization without magnetic fields for circular polarization-based spin-optoelectronic applications like optical communications.

Skyrmions are objects with whirled magnetization protected by their topology that can be created by different means, however, without control of their position. Here, the authors present a method exploiting x-rays to create skyrmions at the beam position allowing for creation of artificial skyrmion lattices.

Graphene is known to exhibit a magnetoresistance, however, in pristine graphene, the magnetoresistance is highly temperature sensitive. Here, by combining graphene with Fe3GeTe2, Huang et al find a strongly enhanced magnetoresistance that is temperature insensitive.

Bimerons are magnetic solitons that are topologically equivalent to skyrmions in in-plane magnetized systems. This study demonstrates the room-temperature creation of bimerons in Co₈Zn₈Mn₄ via femtosecond laser pulse excitation, revealing dynamic topological control and morphological transitions of these solitons.

This study explains the superior spin selectivity (>60%) and high conductivity in molecular knots through a novel theoretical model based on geometric spin-orbit coupling, directly linking their robustness to topological chirality.

Spin-polarized light-emitting diodes (spin-LEDs) convert the electronic spin information to photon circular polarization, but they are usually controlled only by external magnetic fields. Here, the authors report the realization of spin-LEDs based on 2D CrI₃/hBN/WSe₂ heterostructures, showing electrical tunability of the electroluminescence helicity.

Antiferromagnets are promising for nano-oscillator in terahertz frequency. However, realizing antiferromagnetic moment oscillation via spin-orbit torque remains elusive. Here, the authors demonstrate oscillations in Mn₂Au films.

This study reveals spatiotemporally resolved current-induced switching in Mn₃Sn thin films, identifying both thermal and non-thermal mechanisms depending on the amplitude of the current.

This work reports the discovery of a giant in-plane Hall effect in a nonmagnetic half Heusler compound, demonstrating magneto-cubic behavior over a wide temperature range and identifying extrinsic mechanisms as the dominant origin.

Magnetic systems can exhibit flat bands where the magnon bands have little to no energy dispersion. Here, Luo, Chen, and coauthors show the nearly flat bands of the van der Waals antiferromagnet, CrOCl, and demonstrate quasi one-dimensional magnon transport.

Long-range spin transport is essential for spintronics applications, but so far has only been achieved in magnets below their Curie temperature. Here, the authors report on efficient spin transport in paramagnetic insulator Gd₃Ga₅O₁₂ exposed to a moderate magnetic field exhibiting a spin diffusion length of 1.8 μm.

Non-adiabatic spin-transfer torque in antiferromagnetically coupled ferrimagnets acts like a staggered magnetic field and can induce efficient domain wall motion.

A d-wave superconductor is used to mediate a long-range exchange coupling between two ferromagnetic insulators.

Realizing stable, room-temperature magnetic skyrmions that can be moved along current is challenging. Here, the authors observe skyrmion bubbles in a synthetic antiferromagnetic coupled multilayer at room temperature and demonstrate its current-induced motion free from the skyrmion Hall effect.

The authors observe THz emission from Ni/Pt heterostructure due to long-range ballistic orbital transport. The velocity of orbital current can be optically tuned by laser fluence, opening the avenue for future optorbitronic devices.

Control of magnetization is at the core of many spintronic applications. Out-of-plane anti-damping magnon torque now enables low-power, deterministic switching of perpendicular magnetization at zero magnetic field.

Antiferromagnet/ferromagnet bilayers are shown to exhibit large enough spin–orbit torque to switch the magnetization of the ferromagnetic layer without the application of external magnetic fields.

This work demonstrates quaternary non-volatile memory in a single-phase antiferromagnet. Polarized neutron scattering reveals that four magnetic domains in LiNi_0.8Fe_0.2PO₄ can be selectively stabilized using combined electric and magnetic fields.

The authors realize s helicity switching of hybrid skyrmions in [Pt/Co]₃/Ru/[Co/Pt]₃ multilayers using spin-orbit torque and thermal effects, enabling motion reversal. This method advances skyrmion-based spintronic devices for data storage and quantum computing.

Here, the authors explore spatially indirect excitons in van der Waals heterostructures and observe long-distance spin transport. The mechanism of protection against the spin relaxation is based on the suppression of scattering.

The authors study a Pt/Nb hybrid structure by scanning microscopy and muon spin rotation. They find an anomalous absence of Meissner screening near the Pt/Nb interface due to spin-triplet pair correlations driven by spin-orbit coupling alone with no ferromagnetic layer necessary.

Skyrmions are a type of topological spin texture that have generate considerable interest for use in information storage and processing, and unconventional computing. Despite this interest, controlled generation, and motion without a Skyrmion hall effect remain an issue. Here, Chen et al combine a Skyrmion hosting magnetic multilayer with a surface acoustic wave (SAW) delay line, and show how SAWs can create, order, and allow for Skyrmion motion, without the Skyrmion Hall effect.