Spin Currents and Antiferromagnets (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Spin Currents and Antiferromagnets

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Spin current is initiated with an electric field at one end of the material, an antiferromagnet. The spin in the antiferromagnet alternates direction (yellow and blue arrows). The signal spreads as a wave (green arrows) through the antiferromagnet. At the other end of the material, the spin current is transferred to an electric current again

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Illustration: Kolbjørn Skarpnes/NTNU

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