Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - TRR 173 - 268565370 Spin+X

Challenges and opportunities in orbitronics
Shunsuke Fukami, Kyung-Jin Lee, and Mathias Kläui
Nature Physics (2026) doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-03143-w

Higher-order Hall response arises from octupole order and scalar spin chirality in a noncollinear antiferromagnet
Adithya Rajan, Tom G. Saunderson, Fabian R. Lux, Rocío Yanes Díaz, Hasan M. Abdullah, Arnab Bose, Beatrice Bednarz, Jun-Young Kim, Dongwook Go, Tetsuya Hajiri, Gokaran Shukla, Olena Gomonay, Yugui Yao, Wanxiang Feng, Hidefumi Asano, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Luis López-Díaz, Jairo Sinova, Gerhard Jakob, Yuriy Mokrousov, Aurélien Manchon, and Mathias Kläui
Communications Materials 7, 73 (2026)

Surface-localized magnetic order in RuO₂ thin films revealed by low-energy muon probes
Akashdeep Akashdeep, Sachin Krishnia, Jae-Hyun Ha, Siyeon An, Maik Gaerner, Thomas Prokscha, Andreas Suter, Gianluca Janka, Günter Reiss, Timo Kuschel, Dong-Soo Han, Angelo Di Bernardo, Zaher Salman, Gerhard Jakob, and Mathias Kläui
Applied Physics Letters 128, 022406 (2026)

A novel family of heteroleptic 1D chain spin-crossover complexes and its DFT modelling. How the formation of polynuclear chains modifies the ligand-field effects on spin transition
Vladyslav Maliuzhenko, Marek Weselski, Maria Książek, Tim Hochdörffer, Juliusz A. Wolny, Volker Schünemann, Joachim Kusz, Robert Bronisz
Dalton Transactions doi.org/10.1039/D6DT00320F

Depth Profiling of Oxygen Migration in Ta/HfO₂ Stacks during Ionic Liquid Gating
Beatrice Bednarz, Martin Wortmann Olga Kuschel, Fabian Kammerbauer, Mathias Kläui, Andreas Hütten, Joachim Wollschläger, Gerhard Jakob, and Timo Kuschel
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 18 (2026)

Texture-dependent all-optical switching in ferromagnetic films via stochastic nucleation of nanoscale domains
Dinar Khusyainov, Rein Liefferink, MengXing Na, Fabian Kammerbauer, Robert Frömter, Mathias Kläui, Dmitry Kozodaev, Nikolay Vovk, Rostislav V. Mikhaylovskiy, Dmytro Afanasiev, Alexey V. Kimel, Johan H. Mentink & Theo Rasing
Nature Materials (2026) doi.org/10.1038/s41563-026-02515-8

Predicting the future with magnons: Forecasting chaotic time series with reservoir computing
Zeling Xiong (熊则灵), Christopher Heins, Thibaut Devolder, Fabian Kammerbauer, Mathias Kläui, Jürgen Fassbender, Helmut Schultheiss , and Katrin Schultheiss 
Physical Review Applied 25, 044047 (2026)

Impact of Cooperativity on the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Light-Induced Spin-State Switching of the Fe(phen)₂(SCN)₂ Spin-Crossover Complex
Chetana Badala Viswanatha, Johannes Stöckl, Benito Arnoldi, Johannes Knippertz, Florian Haag, Hauke Paulsen, Juliusz A. Wolny, Martin Aeschlimann, Volker Schünemann, and Benjamin Stadtmüller
J. Phys. Chem. C, doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6c01676

Ultralong-living magnons in the quantum limit
R.O. Serha, K.H. McAllister, F. Majcen, S. Knauer, T. Reimann, C. Dubs, G.A. Melkov, A.A. Serga, V.S. Tyberkevych, A.V. Chumak, and D.A. Bozhko
Science Advances 12, eaee2344 (2026)

FRET between NV Centers in Diamond and Chlorophyll Molecules: A Novel Resource for Multimodal Sensing and Imaging in Plant Cells
Sebastian Westrich, Nimba Oshnik, Nina Thiele, Nina Burmeister, Yanis Abdedou, Nikhita Khera, Stefanie J. Müller-Schüssele, Elke Neu
Adv. Optical Mater., 2026; 0:e00003

[2+2] photocycloaddition induces 114 K high-temperature shift of spin crossover transition - the role of the cycloaddition induced strain
Marcin Kaźmierczak, Vladyslav Maliuzhenko, Aleksandra Tołoczko, Marek Weselski, Miłosz Siczek, Juliusz A. Wolny, Volker Schünemann, Robert Bronisza
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2026, 13, 4084-4096

Interplay of electron-magnon scattering and spin-orbit induced electronic spin-flip scattering in a two-band Stoner model
Felix Dusabirane, Kai Leckron, Baerbel Rethfeld, and Hans Christian Schneider
Phys. Rev. B 113, 104403 (2026)

Nuclear inelastic scattering shows lattice softening induced by Zn(II) dilution of a Fe(II) spin crossover material 
Juliusz A. Wolny, Tim Hochdörffer, Konstantin Gröpl, Lukas Knauer, Maren Hoock, Marco A. M. Tummeley, Alexandr I. Chumakov, Dimitrios Bessas, Volker Schünemann
Interactions (2026) 247:32

Influence of Platinum Thin Films on the Photophysical and Quantum Properties of Near-Surface NV Centers 
Joachim P. Leibold, Lina M. Todenhagen, Matthias Althammer, Nikhita Khera, Sergej Levashov, Elke Neu, Martin S. Brandt, Hans Huebl, and Dominik B. Bucher
Adv. Optical Mater. 2026, e03544

Magnetic circular dichroism in core-level x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of altermagnetic RuO₂ films
Y. Lytvynenko, A. Akashdeep, T. P. Vo, O. Tkach, S. V. Chernov, A. Gloskovskii, C. Schlueter,  C. Luo, V. Ukleev, F. Radu, F. Kronast, T. Hiroto, A. Winkelmann, J. Minár, M. Kläui, G. Schönhense, G. Jakob, H. J. Elmers, and O. Fedchenko
Phys. Rev. B 113, 014403 (2026)

Investigating the Structural Factors Influencing the Magnetic Interaction between Individual Copper Spins in the CuCu4 Metallacrown Complex, from Its Bulk Form to Its Adsorption on Au(111)
Ariyan Tavakoli, Stefan Lach, Frederik Pütz, Dominic Stephan, Anne Lüpke, Dominik Laible, Siegfried Kaidisch, Andreas Windischbacher, Eva Rentschler, Peter Puschnig, Hans-Christian Schneider, Christiane Ziegler
Adv. Mater. 2026; 13:e00906  

Enhancement of magnon flux towards a Bose-Einstein condensate
F. Kühn, M. R. Schweizer, T. Azevedo, V. I. Vasyuchka, G. von Freymann, V. S. L'vov, B. Hillebrands, and A. Serga
Phys. Rev. B 113, 014409 (2026)

On demand laser-induced frequency tuning of coherent magnons in a nanometer-thick magnet at room temperature
Volker Wiechert, Hanchen Wang, William Legrand, Pietro Gambardella, David Breitbach, Philipp Pirro, Michaela Lammel, Andrea Meo, Giovanni Finocchio, and Davide Bossini
Nat. Commun. 17, 145 (2026)