It's a real pleasure to have a visitor or a returning visitor to Georgia Tech. Professor Shaloo Rakheja from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Sure. Who got her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology. And then worked for a few years before coming here to Georgia Tech to get her Masters and PhD in electrical and computer engineering with our very own Assad Niamey, sitting right there. And then did a postdoc at MIT before going to NYU for a few years and then joining University of Illinois Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2019, where she is also Director for the Center for Advanced semiconductor chips with accelerated performance, also known as asap, which is an NSF funded you CRC. And she also is a grantee of an NSF Career Award. So with that, I will turn it over to you. All right. I hope you all can hear me. So it's a great pleasure to be back here. I remember being here more than a decade ago. And my last presentation that I did at Georgia Tech was my PhD defense presentation. Today what I want to talk about is my perspective on magnetic materials and more specifically antiferromagnetic. And just argue that despite a lot of the challenges associated with antiferromagnetic, these are still amazing materials to consider for future electronic applications. And before I get started, I want to thank all my grand sponsors that have allowed me to do this research that I'm gonna be talking about today. Alright, so before I get started, I wanted to give a very quick five-minute overview of my research. So I work in theoretical modelling. So a lot of the work that I do is focused on developing new simulation methods and new models for a number of unique applications such as RF Communication and low-power memory and logic. Some of the studies that I've performed recently include doing a spin charged coupling in 2D materials, topological materials, and spin transport in these nanostructures. And more recently, my focus has been on studying electron transport in wide band gap semiconductors. So here is pretty much all of the materials that I've been working on. So 35.3 nitrites, I have done a lot of work in photoconductive switches, which are important for pulse power applications, as well as high electron mobility transistors, which you all may be familiar with. These are devices that are used for RF communication. Then in the middle of the slide, you will see these antiferromagnetic that I want to talk about today. And more specifically, the antiferromagnetic that I want to talk about are these manganese based metals. Manganese 310, manganese, gallium nitride. The cool thing about these antiferromagnetic metals is that they have some very interesting topological properties. Also very uniquely, this is a material manganese 310 that I'll talk about that has a very weak Ferro magnetic moment as well, which gives us a handle as an external user to be able to manipulate the order parameter. Alright, so just a quick overview of my work in electronic devices and materials. So the work that I do allows us to connect technology, whether it's used in circuits and to be able to do that, We have built this modelling and simulation framework that is shown over here. So at the middle of this framework we have these compact device models. These are called, these are basically based on physics equations, but they do require experimental data such as S parameters IV, CV in order to be validated and calibrated over abroad bias and temperature range. Now, these compact device models can also be validated against these tickets simulations. So t cat stands for technology computer aided design. So generally what one does is they tried to understand how electrons are moving in a device. And typical methods that are used are Boltzmann transport equation, which is obviously very heavy to implement computationally because it requires complex Monte-Carlo simulations. One could simplify it and use deterministic methods like hydrodynamics and drift diffusion. Now speaking of Boltzmann transport, I have a postdoc opening in my group to do Boltzmann transport simulations for gallium nitride and other wide band gap semiconductors. If you're interested, please let me know. But eventually our hope is that with the sort of a framework, we get to the circuit level simulations and the output that we're getting from the circuit. Simulations can allow us to fine tune the choice of the materials as well as the device design so that we can typically meet the specifications of the application that we're interested in. Now, this framework that I've highlighted over here is specifically made for gallium nitride, aluminum, gallium nitride scandium nitrate kind of devices. We also need some first principles calculations. I don't do these calculations in house. We collaborate with a lot of external people who are great at density functional theory calculations and electron phonon couplings as well. So taking gallium nitride as an example, we have been working with Air Force in order to implement a better and more scalable method to look at electron transport in gallium nitride. The method that we have is called SKT, which stands for, for me, kinetics transport. And I hope you all are listening carefully because I promised David there is going to be a quiz at the end of it. So what F Katie does, unlike most other solvers that you all may be familiar with, examples might be many electrical engineers use synopsis tools, right? So synopsis and Doris is an example of a t cat Solver. What f Katie does better is all of these things. It is able to capture the physics of hot carriers, which is very important for high frequency applications. It can incorporate full band structure of the devices well. And finally, what it also does really well is the fact that it can couple Maxwell's equations to transport. And that is usually not very easy with the commercial solvers that are available on the market. Today. We have demonstrated that this f Katie has a better rate of convergence compared to all of the commercial solvers. And our paper that appeared very recently in December was chosen as the editor spec, which highlighted some of these crucial mathematical details of the different solvers. Our hope is that in the future, we will be able to expand the functionality of f k, d. So currently what f Katie does very well is look at these three-dimensional electron gases in a structure. What we want to do is study nanowires, nano sheets, and even scandium based high electron mobility transistors. So if people don't know aluminum scandium nitrate as a ferroelectric. So what we want to do is build a device that has a gallium nitride channel with aluminum scandium nitrate sitting on top of it. And the applications, of course, RF electronics is the primary focus of many of the things that I'm looking into. But we also want to push the temperature. We want to be able to make sure that whatever models and simulations we are building are equally applicable at high temperature as they are at ultra low temperatures for some of the very interesting cryogenic applications. Alright, so here's a few examples of the devices that I've been looking at also apart from gallium nitride. So although gallium nitride has been the main focus and three-five hams has been the main focus. Recently we have a very small SRC funded project to do 2D reconfigurable devices. Have a collaborator that fabricates these devices, and these are all fabricated in-house. This is a hafnium oxide doped with zirconium ferroelectric capacitor and ferroelectric tunnel junction. So we basically developed models for some of these devices that are validated against measurement. I will post a little bit about our models. So what is, what sets our models apart from everybody else in the literature is doing? There are four key things that we try to respect in our models. The first is self-consistency. What that means is you have the DC operation of the device, but at the other end, you also have the transient operation of the device. For transient operation, it is important to consider all of the capacitive effects, displacement current that would flow through the device terminals. So what we do is we try to build the static model jointly with this dynamic model or the transient model so that it can capture all of the relevant physics. The second thing that we do, which has been a pain in the industry for a very long time, is we don't have models that are applicable to long channel devices and short-channel devices simultaneously. So we are able to capture the appropriate physics. Then one unified compact framework. And we also have very few sets of parameters. So for any model, we need to train the model. We need to know what the parameters in the models are. And to train that model, we have to do this multi-variable optimization. So the bigger the space of the parameters, the more complicated this process gets. So what I tried to ensure is that the models that we're building has very few parameters, e.g. 40 parameters, as opposed to the traditional models e.g. that are available in the literature in the compact model council would have 200 parameters. So it's a very large set of parameters that people have to deal with. And finally, mathematical robustness is quite important. Mathematical robustness means you have these analytic equations. You want to put this model into a circuit simulator because presumably you're trying to build some electronic circuit with it. The moment you put it into the circuit solver, what the circuit solver wants is that your models, all the currents and the charges are differentiable to the nth order. And if you don't have that, then the circuit simulator will complain about it. And therefore, your circuit friends are going to come to you and say your model is crap, which may be so, but this is one of the very important things that we've tried to ensure in our models. So with this, I think I'll move to the actual real part of my talk on Magnetics and spin tropics. Spent on X is a combination of two words, spin on electronics. And it basically aims to utilize the spin angular momentum of electrons as opposed to their charge in order to build useful electronic devices. And at the heart of any spin phonics device or a circuit is a ferromagnet, which is shown over here and it contains spins that are aligned parallelly with each other. What one could do is assume that a thin film of a ferromagnet behaves like a giant spin. And we usually refer to it as a macro spin. And the idea is that, that this orientation is going to encode the binary states of 0.1. And we need some method in order to switch the state of the magnet. So presumably one, we'll apply some external signal toggle the state and apply a reverse signal toggle the state back. So what are some of the methods that one can use in order to toggle the state. People can use spin torques, magnetic fields, combination of these where the electric fields and voltages. The idea is that the magnet is sitting in one of its energy basins. So you can think that this orientation corresponds here. And then you apply the signal and the orientation then kinda like moves on the face space and gets to the other equilibrium basin. And again, this is a very simplified. The real picture is of course, way more complicated. Now to call in my research has been to understand how this evolution is taking place. And generally speaking, you would end up solving this first order differential equation. This is known as the Landau Lifshitz Gilbert equation. What it does is it tells you this is my M, this magnetization, and this is how its varying as a function of time in response to all of the external forces that you're applying to the system. One of the forces over here is this torque coming from the spin current, e.g. that you've provided to the system. So generally you would solve it and you will try to figure out what m is as a function of diamond, then do some performance estimates and so on. Now, the biggest application of ferromagnetic has been in the context of magnetic memories. Can anyone give me an example of a company that's very successful in making magnetic spin Torque memories. Any idea, ever spin, anyone heard of it? So every spin is a company that is actually making smoothies. Memories are a number of other companies, But as you all know, memory industry is going through a lot of issues right now. So I'm not sure how many people are actually still researching this, at least for this quarter, but that's a very important application. And then there are other applications as well, e.g. one could use this magnet as a source of random numbers. Because if you look at this equation, you have this thermal noise term over here. So it could be argued that the evolution of the magnetization is going have some sort of a stochasticity and that one could harness for building random number generators and so on. Alright, there are some benefits of spin draw antics. First is that these elements are highly scalable. They could also be more energy efficient compared to their charge-based counterparts. And one could always argue that well, even if fuel power down the device, the magnet is going to be non-volatile and store the state. And in fact, as I mentioned before, memory has been the biggest killer application for spin tropics. And here are some examples of very interesting latest and greatest memories coming out of universities in Japan as well as in iMac. At the heart of all of these magnetic memories is this element or two terminal device. And this is popularly called the magnetic tunnel junction. It has two electrodes over here that are made out of a ferromagnet. And this blue layer is a ten tunneling barrier like magnesium oxide. So what happens in this empty j is you pass the current and you control the orientation of the second layer, which is called the free layer. And once this freely or changes, the resistance of the stack would also change. The resistance could be a low resistance or a high resistance depending on how the federal magnetic electrodes are aligned with each other. This is at the heart of all of the magnetic memories that I showed earlier. But interestingly, this element could also be used for a number of diverse applications in unconventional computing. Random number generators being a very important application, but we can also use it as a microwave oscillator, a spin wave amateur detector, memory store, stochastic oscillator and so on and so forth. So this is a very powerful, diverse element that one could use now. And all of these devices that I've talked about, it's all about Ferro magnets. So what about antiferromagnetic? Now, antiferromagnetic represent the overwhelming majority of magnetically ordered materials. In an antiferromagnetic, the spins are aligned opposite to each other. So if I look at the system on the whole, there is no magnetic moment over here. So in his 1970 Nobel lecture, lewis Neil said that these are interesting materials but useless. And in fact, I took a snapshot of his Nobel lecture and let me read from this. Neil says, they are extremely interesting from the theoretical viewpoint, but do not seem to have any applications. Now, let me focus on the positive here for a minute. Interesting to radically interesting. So what is interesting about this antiferromagnetic? Well, first of all, it does not have any moment, so it's not going to generate these dipolar fields, which also means that an antiferromagnetic is going to be immune to external magnetic fields. From an engineer's perspective, what that means is you could take this element and assuming you could bend our memory out of it, you could basically scale it down and stuck it very, very close to each other without having to worry about crosstalk, e.g. right? The other thing is that an antiferromagnetic, the dynamics is very fast. In Ferro magnets. What happens is we have to worry about a nanosecond for any interesting dynamics to take place. In the case of antiferromagnetic, the precession frequency is in terahertz. One could at least theoretically argue that it would be possible to switch this antiferromagnetic People second timescale to radically that has not been demonstrated experimentally yet. And even theoretically doing the math behind it seems to be very complicated. And finally, these antiferromagnetic, because of the way there moments are aligned, also have very interesting dynamics. They can switch, they can have oscillations, and in fact, they can have spikes, which is like you put an AC current and the Mac, the moment spikes, and so on and so forth. It can also have a burst, which means that it can have coupled a train of spikes, e.g. so there are some interesting features, but obviously there are challenges which has made it very difficult for us thus far to utilize these antiferromagnetic in any useful electronic application. And that seems to be the status as of today. So what are the difficulties? First two biggest difficulties. There is no moment in it. So how the **** are you supposed to image it and how are you supposed to flip it if you're trying to change the orientation and you want to do, one could say, Well, why don't we use lasers to view the magnetic patterns? Well, as an engineer, what we want to do is we want to use electrically controllable methods in order to switch the antiferromagnetic and after it has been switched, we also want to detect the switch to stay at using microelectronics compatible circuitry. That second problem is a little bit more fundamental even today, people are still arguing. How does the magnet, the antiferromagnetic switch. We don't understand the physics fully. We don't understand the timescale. And we don't understand the robustness of the switching process itself and the role of thermal noise. In fact, everything that I will talk about today will be someone's thermal noise. And it will also be under the assumption that I know this is how the magnet is switching because I have to make a framework and start with some assumption. And my hope is that, that the models I start building from those assumptions have some experimental proof. As my very good friend, Tony law says, theory is not real. Experiments are real. So hopefully what my hope is that the models that I'm building have a very strong smoking gun experimental proof that this is what is going to happen. Alright, so in my research, what we've been doing is trying to understand can we utilize these antiferromagnetic as shortstop ours, as the main element in spin drawn ICS devices. If so, then what would this device look like? What is the writing mechanism? What is the reading mechanism? Then finally, what would be appropriate methodologies and models in order to estimate the performance, including the energy dissipation area, latency of the device. I have a number of review articles. This is, by the way, a blossoming area of research. If you're interested, this is the right time to get into it because everyone is super excited about the vast range of materials that are available to basically understand it. It's just huge. So I have a number of review articles if you're interested. I'm happy to share my slides and you can take a look at some of these very interesting review articles. Now, there are some spin tronic phenomena that are available to read the antiferromagnetic state. First as magneto resistance. What does this do? You take to antiferromagnetic sandwich them and there is a ten or tunneling barrier in between. And depending on the orientation of the antiferromagnetic, you might get a low resistance and high resistance. Now you might have imagined that this is only theoretically possible. It has not been experimentally demonstrated in pretty much all of the antiferromagnetic that we know off it has not accept. Last month the paper came out in nature, which demonstrated the magneto resistance effect in manganese tin, which is a material that I will talk about today. So that's the only material in which this has been experimentally observed. Then we have an isotropic magneto resistance. These are all resistive measurements. What these measurements are doing is they are trying to understand how does magnetization the resistance of the stack. So in this one, essentially, this resistance depends on the orientation of the Neil order, which is the antiferromagnetic order and the direction of the current. Now this one, the AMR, this is a bulk phenomenon. It has been observed experimentally, but it is a very weak effect. And then we have something called anomalous Hall Effect. How many of you are familiar with Hall effect? Anyone? Okay? Alright, so I'm not going to get into, if you're not familiar with Hall effect, you better be familiar with Hall Effect. This is like one of those basic things that you ought to know. So anyway, I'm not going to get into it, but the idea here is simple. Norman Hall effect. What you end up doing is you try to put a magnetic field and that gives you that Hall voltage that people often measure. In the case of magnetic materials, the cool thing is, you don't have to apply any magnetic fields and you get this whole voltage. Now, this whole effect, I have anomalous oil effects. So what is anomalous about it? Well, what typically happens is that this is an odd function and therefore are not expected to get this. In the case of antiferromagnetic, it should cancel out. But interestingly, in manganese tin, the material of choice today, this phenomenon has been experimentally measured. It occurs in this material, so it's a very powerful tool to look at M and three SN. And finally, we have this thing called tunneling and isotropic magneto resistance, same as the top one. And isotropic magneto resistance is just that. The structure is a little bit complicated. The effect is a little bit stronger than an isotropic magneto resistance, but typically, this last one does not persist to room temperature. There are some challenges I know that people have been trying to do that and materials like IRM and, and so on. Then on the writing side. So remember my goal today is to tell you how to write, how to read, right? So I've talked, told you how we can read. There are four effects. They were kinda anomalous. Hall Effect is the only one that is looking promising for most of these materials, writing can be accomplished with spin torque. Now how does that happen? Let's go back to my favorite device, that tunnel junction to antiferromagnetic within MG or battery or in-between. Idea is while you pass a current and then flip the magnetization of the second electrode does not happen in reality, no man has experimentally demonstrated it yet. And the reason for this is that in order for this phenomenon to occur in the case of antiferromagnetic, you need commensurate hetero structures, you need perfect epitaxy and you need ballistic transport of spins. So that's those are very challenging to achieve in experiments. The second one is a nice effect. This is a bulk effect. So you have this chunk of an antiferromagnetic sitting and you don't need complex multi-layer structures at this effect is called Edelstein spin orbit torque. Complicated name, I can't seem to remember all the torques that are now available in the literature. This one is also called the inverse when galvanic effect in case you want to. Remember that the idea here is you pass current and that introduces this non-equilibrium spin polarization, which basically exchange couples to this magnetization and flips the magnetization. This one requires very specific kinds of materials and crystals once with broken inversion symmetry, examples in which this has been experimentally demonstrated is m into AU e.g. that's been done. And finally, the nice effect that seems to work is the spin Hall effect, spin or PyTorch. So you pass a current through this green layer on the top. I'm not sure if it's ten invisible as green layer from the back. But I have this green layer. You pass a current that basically exerts its been torque on this bottom antiferromagnetic and flips the magnetization of the antiferromagnetic. Now the third effect that seems to work very well, whether your magnetic material is an insulator or whether it is metals. So we want to talk about how to utilize that in the case of metals. So pop quiz time. What are the two methods that we will use to describe M13 assigned for reading and writing. So I'll just remind everyone for reading. We're going to be doing the anomalous Hall effect for writing. We're gonna be doing that last one. Alright, so there are a number of antiferromagnetic materials that I've been looking into. So we have these insulators, nickel oxide and manganese fluoride. These are the poster children of antiferromagnetic. So whenever we think of antiferromagnetic, those are the materials and they're pretty good. The Carrey matt nons charge less spin waves basically, but I'm not going to talk about that. And then there is chromium. Chromium is a nice material. It's a magneto electric material. Not going to talk about that. I'm going to talk about not even see U, M, and S, but I wanted to highlight this material here. This material is a metal. Now, this was the first material in which are electrically controlled switching of the antiferromagnetic order was demonstrated at the time when I was still a student. It was a science paper and everyone was super happy about it. But later on it was found that the signals that they measured were not related to the switching of the antiferromagnetic order, but rather to joule heating and atomic motion related to electro migration. Nonetheless, the set the stage for what we could expect an anti ferromagnet and generated a lot of excitement in the field about eight years ago. Now there's a lot of interests in manganese, tin and M13 IR. The cool thing over here, which I'm going to talk about is if you look at this material here, I have made some atoms and then there are those arrows on the atoms. Those are the moments that are in that atom. The cool thing is that this is a non collinear anti ferromagnet. What does non-colinear mean? It means that it's a co-planar system. Coplanar means all the spins are in that same plane. So the blue planes is where the spins are contained. And then it does non-colinear because the spins are not in a straight line. They are pointing at hundred and 20 degrees with respect to each other. These are also called negative Pi reality materials. And the sky reality breaks the time reversal symmetry here. So it gives us some very unique transport signatures that are not possible in any other material. Now that I've wasted half of my lecture time to talk about the background. I want to jump right into it. What is so unique about this? So this is a unit cell of M13 ascended. It's basically hexagonal. And it consists of this ABAB stacking sequence of the zeros 01 plane. In the plane we have a gummy lattice of manganese atoms. And it has a very weak in plane, an isotropy. If you're not familiar with anisotropy, isotropy just means the preference of the system to lie along a certain direction. Now and then three SN is unique because you could stabilize this phase only when manganese is in excess. So you won't need something like M and 3.0 to S n. So some of those manganese atoms are going to replace the tin atoms. And if you didn't have that access, you would get contaminated with M and n, which is not an antiferromagnetic. Also at the new temperature is 410 Kelvin, which means that if you were to heat it above this temperature, it would not be a magnetically ordered material. And this basically has this one-twenty decree spin structure, which is what I'm referring to as a negative guy reality. There are other kinds of structures that are enabled at low temperature, but I don't think anyone fully understands what's happening below 50 Kelvin or what's happening even in this helix antiferromagnetic phase. I'm not going to focus on these two phases, but I'm going to focus on this triangular antiferromagnetic phase. So m and three SN is unique. It's a while semi-metal. So it has these awhile nodes, but that does not important from an engineer's perspective. What is important from an engineer's perspective is this fundamental crystal structure. And the way the moments, the spin is arranged in this plane, it gives mm3sn, very large magneto transport signatures. That's what we want as engineers, we want to be able to measure this electrically. And even though you look over here, it has a very weak magnetic woman. So it's pretty much antiferromagnetic except for a very weak Ferro magnetic moment, which makes this material very, very special. And it has some other unique properties as well and has a very nice anomalous Hall effect. So the first point here allows me to detect it, measure it, and the last point over here allows me to control it. So I have a method for electrical control, and I have a method for electrical detection. That is what I want as an engineer. No other material that I know of from the antiferromagnetic family satisfies these criteria as well as M13 SN does. Now, this notion that I want to try that electrical control of magnetic order is at the heart of spin drownings devices. That's what I wanted to get across. And there has been tremendous progress in elementary SN. I only started working in this material about two years ago and they weren't a whole lot of papers available, but suddenly in 2021, a lot of nature papers started coming out. So this is a seminal paper, one of the first papers that short something very unique. They said, Okay, let's put platinum under M and three SN pass electric current through platinum. Somehow they were able to see that this m and three SN antiferromagnetic order started having a chiral spin rotation. And how did they measure it? Anomalous Hall effect. They measured anomalous Hall signal and saw very clearly that this was undergoing oscillation. So at the time we were building models that this was one of the papers that we referred to for validating some of the work that we were doing at the time. And in fact, just a month ago, a new paper has come out in nature, which shows that one code to build these tunnel junctions. So you have to antiferromagnetic electrodes with MgO in-between. Depending on the relative orientation of the two antiferromagnetic electrodes, you could measure a magneto resistance about 2%. You might think it's so small. Well it's better than zero. Previously we had nothing. Now we have to present, so hopefully we will get better and better. As time goes by. It gets worse. Yeah. It gets worse at room temperature. This is low temperature. Yeah. Why did this happen? And m and three SN and not in nickel oxide or any other antiferromagnetic. It's because of that week federal magnetic moment that I talked about. It's VQ, but it's finite and that is what is important for us to control it. In fact, in M and PT, people have demonstrated about 100 per cent DMR, but I'm not interested in MPT. I'm interested in M13 ascend. So I'm not going to talk about that anyway. So what I want to do today is just talk about some of the models that my group has been developing to understand. I pass current. Then how does the spin structure of M13 SN change? And by change, I want to specifically look at oscillations of this. And what we do is we want to focus on the right bought, how much current is required? What is the frequency of this oscillation? But we will spend just a little bit of time to look at readout. And then I hope that the models that we have can allow me to understand the relationship between the frequency of oscillation and the input spin current. Now for people, I said when I started this lecture, okay, that antiviral magnets have terahertz frequency. So obviously, when we start working, we thought, okay, I'm entry essentially have some terahertz oscillations. And it turns out that this material is so unique that only and only in this material, you could actually tune that frequency down to the gigahertz range, something that's not possible with other antiferromagnetic materials. So my next few slides, I was told this will be a broad audience of students. I tried to cut down the math, but these will be a little bit still a little bit dense. But let's see what I'm doing here. We have this platinum, we have this amine trigger Sam, I pass current gets polarized and B basically affects the orientation of m entry assign. What I'm expecting is that those spins that I showed, the triangles that I showed earlier, they are oriented in this x, y plane. The way I have set up my device here. Exactly the same as the experimental setup that I showed on the previous slide. Again, the goal is to ensure that whatever I'm doing, I can readily validated, right? So that's what I did. So how do I start here? Well, the general processes this, whenever we start thinking about dynamics, step one is to write down the free energy of the system. Free energy is the energy that it would have in the ground state when it does not being perturbed. So we have exchange coupling. If anyone remembers from high school physics spins this opposite dot-product, that is the exchange. Then we have anisotropy. Isotropy is the preference of the magnet to lie along a certain direction. And in-between. And I'm three ascent, we have this unique dorm or BMI. Anyone knows what DMI stands for? I wouldn't know when I was a student. Dmi stands for Xian lotion SKY Warrior interactions. So this is an interaction that says spins are going to be like that candidate from each other. And we know an m and three S. And we saw that spins are non-colinear. They were not anti-parallel fully. They were in a 120 degree spin structure. So that is that, that is step one. How my students start. Step-2 is when you've got that energy, put it inside your equation of motion. Now for antiferromagnetic, this is where all the debate comes. The equation of motion that I'm going to use is the same equation that we used for Ferro magnets, that Landau Lifshitz Gilbert equation. So a lot of researchers are still arguing that equation should not be valid for antiferromagnetic. Or sometimes they argue that it should be, it should be fine to be used for antiferromagnetic, except that you have to change some terms in it to basically be commensurate with the notion of antiferromagnetic. But again, I will start from this assumption assuming that it's exactly the same as federal magnets, but the key differences. Now, I have to solve this for three spends in inventory essence spin one is like this, then we have one-twenty another 123 spins. And that has to be done self-consistently. So I don't usually like doing that. So what my students did was a very smart thing. They said. Instead of solving for m1, m2, and m3, why don't we solve this equation for some effective vectors. Effective vectors are just some algebraic combination of m1, m2, and m3. So the first one is small m, which basically is the average magnetization. And then we have some other staggered or the parameters. But anyway, when we start with this, what we also do is we look at how these vectors are oriented. So if I look at the bottom figure here, what I see is that N1 and N2 make this 90 degree angle. And there is the small in-plane, an isotropy or small week Ferro magnetic moment m. This is what allows me to control this whole dynamic. And what I also want you to appreciate us the spin orientation. It's 120 degree, but not quite so, not quite so it seems to be one-twenty, but it has a slight deviation. And only one of the moments is along It's easy access. The other two are not. Those are subtle things that will, you know, that we have to remember when we're modeling all of this. So before we did anything, before we even solve any equations with time, the first thing is to figure out what the ground state of the system is. Interestingly, when we solve for ground-state, we get six ground states. These are six minimum energy states of M and three SN at any given time. It could be here or here, or here. One of these states, the 6-fold an isotropy is very important. The energy difference between this and this and all the other, it's small. And it's that smallness of the energy difference that allows me to very efficiently control this material. Alright, and remember that the magnetic moment that I'm getting in this system is very, very small. So we had this framework, but we were still not happy with it. We said, well, the equations are looking very bad. So what can we do to simplify them, right? That's, that's the whole point. We want to come up with analytic models. So what we did was something unique. We said, well, we know that we had three effective vectors, m, N1, and N2. So why don't we represent N1 and N2 in terms of some azimuthal angle. We know that even when I'm trying to switch the system, N1 and N2 want to remain in the plane. They don't want to go out. So I can just define them in terms of phi. Phi is our azimuthal angle that I measured from x axis. So N1 and N2 are still perpendicular. You can quickly do the dot-product here and you can determine that they are perpendicular to each other. So now we start with LLC. Simplify it into three equations. One for small m, one for N1, one for N2. Not happy with it. We further simplify it in terms of phi. That's what we do. And that's when interesting things start happening. When we write down the equation of motion in terms of this phi angle of this new order, we get the second-order equation of motion. What is interesting about this equation of motion, everything looks fine. Phi double dot, phi dot, phi dot is the angular velocity. So in measurement of anomalous Hall signal, that is what you're going to be measuring this guy. So this guy needs to vary with time. If phi dot varies with time, you can determine and an AC signal associated with this process. What is unique over here is this sinusoid six phi term. So it's a non-linear equation, very hard to solve analytically actually. But the thing is that this pre-factor in the case of m and three as N is very small, it's only ten to the negative four. To be very, very honest. We did not derive this equation religiously because what, when my students started working on it, he didn't get the science X5 term. He did not. In order to get to that science expired term, you had to do some perturbation theory and he was like, I'm not doing it, it's too much work. And that seemed to be fine for the time being because it's so small. Right. So why bother with it? And I'll tell you why bother with it. Then after we wrote the paper, paper is out. I wasn't happy with it. But whatever, we go back and we were like, Okay, let's heuristically argue that there is a sign six fighter. Let's argue, let's change the equation. Let's change the equation and then see what happens. So after we change the equation, we wanted to determine this prefactor, but we'll see. So this equation of motion, if you remember from early physics days, is exactly the same equation as that of a simple gravity pendulum. It's exactly the same. So here in this example, this pendulum is being driven by a damping of Beta and a torque of gamma. And this has inertial motion. So what did we learn? We learned that the antiferromagnetic M13 ASN has similarities with classical motion of massive bodies that are driven by Newton's kinetic equation. That's what we learned and we can solve it. In fact, when we have inertia, the system accumulates. Energy, can switch very fast. So that's what we learned from this process. In fact, as I said, why is all of this important? This is important because the smallness of the term allows me to have a dynamic at very, very small currents, making this material highly energy efficient for spin tronic applications, if you look at other materials, they require orders of magnitude more current, not inventory asset. Finally, because of the smallness of this term, but sadly, we could not derive religiously, but we argued theoretically and validated it against fall numerical simulations. It also shows that the dynamics can be tuned from gigahertz to terahertz. So in the last few minutes, I'll just show you what we did. We simulated the terahertz dynamics. So what we do is we apply a very large current and we get dynamics at 6.5 terahertz. So this is how the three moments M1, M2, and M3 are oscillating on the phase-space and it's rather fast. Then I do something unique. I reduce the current to about ten to the five. It's very small, four orders of magnitude smaller. Well, the system oscillate. Yes. And that's what we demonstrate it. I apologize, this is very crappy. It's so slow that my computer has difficulty processing. This oscillation is actually happening at half a gigahertz. That tunability is not afforded in the case of any other antiferromagnetic material. And I know I'm running short on time. How much, how many minutes do I have? Three or 4 min. So what do I want to talk about? Yeah, maybe i'll, I'll talk a little bit about this. The low frequency oscillations. We want these low frequency oscillations. Why? Because these are more energy efficient. I don't know of any microelectronics circuit that could detect signals that terahertz frequency. So this would be a little bit more appropriate in the case of building practical electronic devices. Because otherwise we have to put so much current that we would burn the system down. So we actually did a lot more simulations. Not very interesting, but we showed that the frequency goes as low as about 0.2 ghz. And then as you are increasing, the current increases. If you look at this first one, that's what I said. And antiferromagnetic shows spiking behavior. Here it shows better, it's less spiky. And then as the current increases, it gets better and better. And the critical current and our cases, 1.7 into ten to the five ampere per centimeter. Really small amount of current compared to anything else that we've seen so far. Now, how do we prove what we've done is correct? So this would be my last closing slide. And then I'll have one more thank yous laid in a minute. So how do we prove what we did was right? So what we did was we said, Okay, let's run our full blown LLT simulation and estimate the frequency as a function of the spin current. So these dots are taken from simulations. And the dashed line over here is also simulation. But it is the simulation of the pendulum equation that I showed you that seemed to match. But then you could say, Wow, you're matching one theory with another theory. Whereas reality, okay. I'll show you where reality is. This is the paper that I keep coming back to. This is the 2021 nature paper. This came out sadly after we wrote our paper, so we could not cite it. They did something similar in their experiments. They calculate the frequency of oscillation as a function of the input current that they are applying. And we see exactly, we account for the changes in the thickness and other materials specific parameters. We saw that the court the exact same results as we got in our models and simulations, which gives us a lot more confidence in the things that we have been doing and in the interest of time. Let me just go to my computer. My computer, so it's not going to I will tell you what I was going to say it. So my computer is when I was a student, it came back. It came back. What I want to very quickly do with this last slide. So there has been, let's see if it'll show up, but we will wait for it to show up. What I wanted to say was that the, I've talked about this rich set of dynamics, oscillations and MN three ascend. So there is a lot of interests very recently in doing neuromorphic computing. That's not an area I work in, but a lot of other researchers are now saying that one could use these antiferromagnetic and use their spiking nature to mimic the action potentials of biological neurons. That's one very active area of research. And I've written some, mentioned some papers that have looked into the action potential behavior of antiferromagnetic. And then they're also claiming that one could do some sort of analog computing or building some logic gates with it using spiky inputs rather than DC signals, as would be normally the case. Alright, so with that, I'm done. So my group is very interested in working on m. And three are saying, we're looking into new textures and effects of thermal noise and heating. And how does one cup of one oscillator with another oscillator. So those are some of the interesting research topics. And I will remind folks, if you're interested in a postdoc position, please let me know. I am getting a little desperate, so sorry for soliciting here, but I thought I would use the platform to just remind everyone knows that. And I want to thank my students who did the work, and my collaborators and our funding agencies, and thank you all for being here. Questions. Thank you. Very practical question. So you have one of these configuration that you study where you have a sensory dielectric between these two antiserum ferromagnetic materials. How important is the thickness of this material? And you mentioned that it's important to have high-quality interfaces like epitaxial growth, to have any. For collinear one I see. Yeah. Claim that the quality is not important because the reason for this TMR is not what happens in ferromagnetic, where you have spin polarized currents transferring torque. The reason that this happens in M13 assent is because of time-reversal, symmetry breaking and bearing phase and so on. So the whole physics is different. There are some theoretical calculations that also showed that an amine three S and the quality is not important, just need ten enough, maybe to 3 nm fine and good enough. Yeah, but no other material has been has shown this at all. So I have to read that paper more carefully. But that's the claim. Get my stepson. Thank you for the talk. I have a I think maybe a really simple question, but the last couple of slides you showed on your graph of the frequency versus the plotted pendulum equation that there's a threshold current. And I was just curious about the where does that arise? Is that a quantum transition or is it something more? Yeah, so usually a thresholding behavior is very common in magnetic materials because you have these six equivalent basins of anodyne. I'm in three essence that the magnet is lying in one of the energy basis. So we always start from ground state, okay? And then what we want to do is apply a stimulus and then give it enough energy so it can overcome that energy barrier and flip to the other side. In any magnetic material, that amount of current that is required to cause this transition is proportional to the anisotropy of the system. In the case of M13, ascending isotropy is so small, That's the argument I made. It's very small. So the amount of current is orders of magnitude smaller than any other known antiferromagnetic materials. But it's really to just classically, it's just taking it over that energy barrier. That's what it's doing. There is no quantum transitions and my simulations, I don't understand quantum. So sorry. One more question from anybody. Alright. So very interesting talk. So is there any idea about the energy barrier between these states? Is it that, that energy barrier is pretty low or it's about 100 joule per meter cube is very small, it's very small. Then if someone argues for ferromagnet, they can say, we can make a very low energy barrier magnet and then the current density for switching would be very low, Correct? Um, so the advantage that you consider here are these new features like you can, you can tune the oscillation frequency and stuff like that. So you cannot, yeah, I think biomarkers are very solid so I can't replace them unfortunately, but the benefit is bursting, spiking new kinds of dynamics. So hopefully, we'll find some potential use. And in fact, we can increase the current and increase the frequency. So the microwave signal generation should be good. But the signal is every measure, like at least people measure is very weak. Again, about 100 microvolt, if you're lucky, it's very small. So the argument here is not, this is gonna be magnets that we can switch it more easily, just marked for new new new functionality, correct? Correct. Alright. Well, I think we're at the top of the hour, so we'll thank our speaker one more time. Thank you.