Spin-Axis Dynamic Locking

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Main Authors: Zhiheng, Lv, Jiangtao, Cai, Dengpan, Ma, Yan, Xing, Zhifeng, Liu
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Published: 2025
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author Zhiheng, Lv
Jiangtao, Cai
Dengpan, Ma
Yan, Xing
Zhifeng, Liu
author_facet Zhiheng, Lv
Jiangtao, Cai
Dengpan, Ma
Yan, Xing
Zhifeng, Liu
contents The all-electrical realization of highly spin-polarized charge currents and their efficient conversion into pure spin currents remains a fundamental challenge in spintronics. Here, we report a spin-axis dynamic locking (SADL) effect in altermagnets that pins the spin polarization to the crystalline axes: an in-plane electric field along one principal axis drives a fully spin-up charge current, whereas along the orthogonal axis, it generates an equal spin-down current. Consequently, applying an electric field diagonally yields a transverse pure spin current with 100% charge-to-spin conversion efficiency. Mechanistically, SADL originates in a distinctive tent state characterized by alternating spin-split flat bands and orthogonal Fermi-surface lines. High-throughput first-principles screening confirms SADL in broad materials (e.g., 2D Cr2WSe4 monolayer and a synthesized three-dimensional compound, (BaF)2Mn2Se2O). Our work thus opens a route to ultra-low-power, reconfigurable spintronic devices where the spin states are governed solely by electric field orientation.
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spellingShingle Spin-Axis Dynamic Locking
Zhiheng, Lv
Jiangtao, Cai
Dengpan, Ma
Yan, Xing
Zhifeng, Liu
Other Condensed Matter
The all-electrical realization of highly spin-polarized charge currents and their efficient conversion into pure spin currents remains a fundamental challenge in spintronics. Here, we report a spin-axis dynamic locking (SADL) effect in altermagnets that pins the spin polarization to the crystalline axes: an in-plane electric field along one principal axis drives a fully spin-up charge current, whereas along the orthogonal axis, it generates an equal spin-down current. Consequently, applying an electric field diagonally yields a transverse pure spin current with 100% charge-to-spin conversion efficiency. Mechanistically, SADL originates in a distinctive tent state characterized by alternating spin-split flat bands and orthogonal Fermi-surface lines. High-throughput first-principles screening confirms SADL in broad materials (e.g., 2D Cr2WSe4 monolayer and a synthesized three-dimensional compound, (BaF)2Mn2Se2O). Our work thus opens a route to ultra-low-power, reconfigurable spintronic devices where the spin states are governed solely by electric field orientation.
title Spin-Axis Dynamic Locking
topic Other Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18476