Condensed Matter Physics Seminar - Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Alireza Qaiumzadeh: The Rise of Antiferromagnetic Spintronics

Abstract

In his Nobel lecture, Louis Néel who won the 1970 Nobel prize in physics for prediction and discovery of antiferromagnetism, stated "[antiferromagnetic materials] are extremely interesting from the theoretical view point, but do not seem to have any applications”. In contrast to this prediction, the last decade advances in spintronics showed that not only antiferromagnets may have some applications but they are even better than their ferromagnetic counterparts. Now, antiferromagnetic spintronics offers a promising basis for next generation low-power, ultrafast, and dense processing and storage appliances. In this colloquium, I briefly review recent theoretical predictions and experimental progresses in the emerging field of antiferromagnetic spintronics. 

The seminar is held digitally via Zoom

Zoom-link: https://nordita.org/zoom/nvcms

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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar