Periodic Technical Report Part B month-12:
The three research Work packages WP1-WP3 reflect the three intertwined project research areas with their respective Objectives and Milestones.
Work package 1, Deliverable D1.1: Report on modeling of antiferromagnetic spin torque, magnetoresistance, domain structure, and dynamics
This report summarizes the work of the ASPIN project consortium aiming at predicting new and explaining existing experimental observations on writing, reading, processing, and storing information in antiferromagnetic spintronic devices. It spans a broad range of works from those directly relevant to our proof-of-concept digital and analogue antiferromagnetic memory cells to fundamental studies of spin-dependent transport, domain structure and dynamics in antiferromagnets. Apart from the reference to several of our comprehensive reviews, covering our as well as world-wide research in the eld, the report outlines our original results in selected specic topics. We give references to the corresponding publications featuring details of these results and for each topic we also explicitly list the contributing teams from the consortium comprising: Institute of Physics in Prague (IOP), University of Nottingham (NOT), Max-Planck Institutes (MPG), IGS Ltd. (IGS), Charles University in Prague (CHU), Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (JGU).
Work package 1, Deliverable D1.2: Report on XMLD-PEEM measurements of electrical-pulse induced domain recongurations
This report summarizes the work of the ASPIN project consortium on X-ray magnetic linear dichroism measurements of Neel vector reorientations and domain recongurations in CuMnAs. We give references to the corresponding publications featuring details of these results and list the contributing teams from the consortium comprising: Institute of Physics in Prague (IOP), University of Nottingham (NOT), Max-Planck Institutes (MPG), IGS Ltd. (IGS), Charles University in Prague (CHU), Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (JGU).
Work package 1, Deliverable D1.3: Report on specifications of multi-level antiferromagnetic bit cells with electrical writing and readout
This report summarizes the work of the ASPIN project consortium on determining the specifi-cations of multi-level antiferromagnetic bit cells with electrical writing and readout. We also give references to our corresponding publications containing additional information. The teams’ contribu-tions to this work were as follows: Institute of Physics in Prague (IOP): Materials growth and characterization, device fabrication, electrical measurements, University of Nottingham (NOT): Materials growth and characterization, magnetic imaging, Max-Planck Institutes (MPG): THz experiments, theory, IGS Ltd. (IGS): Development of demonstrator printed circuit boards, assessment of application potential, Charles University in Prague (CHU): Link from electrical and THz measurements to optical mea-surements, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (JGU): Theory
Work package 2, Deliverable D2.1: Report on optical and terahertz experiments
This report summarizes the work of the ASPIN project consortium on optical and THz detection and excitation of dynamics in antiferromagnets. It spans a broad range of works from developing the tools with high temporal and spatial resolution and studies of the fundamentals of spin-dynamics, to demonstrations of THz-pulse electrical switching of antiferromagnetic memory devices and THz spintronic emitters. Apart from the reference to our comprehensive review, covering our as well as world-wide research in the eld, the report outlines our original results in selected specific topics. We give references to the corresponding publications featuring details of these results and for each topic we also explicitly list the contributing teams from the consortium comprising: Institute of Physics in Prague (IOP), University of Nottingham (NOT), Max-Planck Institutes (MPG), IGS Ltd. (IGS), Charles University in Prague (CHU), Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (JGU).
Work package 2, Deliverable D2.2: Report on switching by THz and fs-optical pulses
This report summarizes the work of the ASPIN project consortium on switching of antiferromag-nets by THz and fs-optical pulses. We also give references to our corresponding publications containing additional information. The teams’ contributions to this work were as follows: Institute of Physics in Prague (IOP): Materials growth and characterization, device fabrication, electrical measurements, University of Nottingham (NOT): Materials growth and characterization, magnetic imaging, Max-Planck Institutes (MPG): THz experiments, theory, IGS Ltd. (IGS): Assessment of application potential, Charles University in Prague (CHU): Optical measurements, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (JGU): Theory
Work package 2, Deliverable D2.3: Report on software module on AF modeling for open-source multi-physics numerical simulator (OMNeS)
This report summarizes the work of the ASPIN project consortium exploring antiferromagnetic textures. We also give references to our corresponding publications containing additional information. The teams’ contributions to this work were as follows: Institute of Physics in Prague (IOP): Materials growth and characterization, structural microscopy, University of Nottingham (NOT): Materials growth and characterization, magnetic microscopy, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (JGU): Software development, theory
Work package 3, Deliverable D3.1: Report on ab initio band structure calculations and symmetry/topology analyses in antiferromagnets
This report summarizes the work of the ASPIN project consortium on ab initio band structure calculations and symmetry/topology analyses in antiferromagnets. It spans a broad range of works from the study of the topological metal-insulator transition in Dirac semimetal antiferromagnets, to anomalous Hall eect in Weyl semimetal antiferromagnets. Apart from references to our comprehensive reviews, covering our as well as world-wide research in the eld, the report outlines our original results in selected specic topics. We give references to the corresponding publications featuring details of these results and for each topic we also explicitly list the contributing teams from the consortium comprising: Institute of Physics in Prague (IOP), University of Nottingham (NOT), Max-Planck Institutes (MPG), IGS Ltd. (IGS), Charles University in Prague (CHU), Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (JGU).
Work package 3, Deliverable D3.2: Report on topological Dirac/Weyl band crossings in antiferromagnets
This report summarizes the work of the ASPIN project consortium exploring the topological fea-tures in the electronic structure of antiferromagnets. We also give references to our corresponding publications containing additional information. The teams’ contributions to this work were as follows: Institute of Physics in Prague (IOP): Materials growth and characterization, University of Nottingham (NOT): Materials growth and characterization, Max-Planck Institutes (MPG): Theory, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (JGU): Materials growth and characterization, theory