The second research topic focuses on the physics of quantum phenomena that take place in materials, such as optical luminescence, effective magnetic interactions, magneto-elastic and magneto-electric couplings, electronic and spin transport, magnetic excitations, etc.
Our research activity is focused on three main research lines:
- linear and non-linear optical properties of bulk materials and nanostructures;
- electronic and magnetic properties of low-dimensional systems;
- the modelling of spin transport in magnetic heterostructures.
2025
Giant and Anisotropic Enhancement of Spin‐Charge Conversion in Graphene‐Based Quantum System
Alberto Anadón, Armando Pezo, Iciar Arnay, Rubén Guerrero, Adrián Gudín, Alba Guio, Melissa Yactayo, Jaafar Ghanbaja, Julio Camarero, Aurelien Manchon, Sebastien Petit-Watelot, Paolo Perna, Juan‐carlos Rojas-Sánchez
Advanced Materials 37:2418541 (2025)10.1002/adma.202418541
Exploring parameter dependence of atomic minima with implicit differentiation
Ivan Maliyov, Petr Grigorev, T D Swinburne
npj Computational Materials 11:22 (2025)10.1038/s41524-024-01506-0
Moiré amplification of highly tunable shift current response in twisted trilayer graphene
Yuncheng Mao, Claudio Attaccalite, Diego García Ovalle
Physical Review B 111:195408 (2025)10.1103/PhysRevB.111.195408
Inverse Rashba Edelstein THz emission modulation induced by ferroelectricity in CoFeB/PtSe2/MoSe2//LiNbO3 systems
S. Massabeau, O. Paull, A. Pezo, F. Miljevic, M. Mičica, A. Grisard, P. Morfin, R. Lebrun, H. Jaffrès, S. Dhillon, J.-M. George, Matthieu Jamet, M. Bibes
APL Materials 13:041102 (2025)10.1063/5.0256072
Orbital Diffusion, Polarization, and Swapping in Centrosymmetric Metals
Xiaobai Ning, A. Pezo, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Weisheng Zhao, Kyung-Jin Lee, Aurélien Manchon
Physical Review Letters 134:026303 (2025)10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.026303
2024
Decoupling the influences of chiral damping and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in chiral magnetic domain walls
Collins Ashu Akosa, Gen Tatara, Aurélien Manchon, Masahito Mochizuki
Physical Review B 110:024420 (2024)10.1103/PhysRevB.110.024420
Optical spectra of silver clusters and nanoparticles from 4 to 923 atoms from the TDDFT+U method
Mohit Chaudhary, Hans-Christian Weissker
Nature Communications 15:9225 (2024)10.1038/s41467-024-53428-6
Pushing the thickness limit of the giant Rashba effect in ferroelectric semiconductor GeTe
Boris Croes, Alexandre Llopez, Calvin Tagne-Kaegom, Bodry Tegomo Chiogo, Bertrand Kierren, Pierre Müller, Stefano Curiotto, Patrick Le Fèvre, François Bertran, Andrés Saúl, Yannick Fagot-Revurat, Frédéric Leroy, Fabien Cheynis
Nano Letters (2024)10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c03281
Non-relativistic torque and Edelstein effect in non-collinear magnets
Rafael González-Hernández, Philipp Ritzinger, Karel Výborný, Jakub Železný, Aurélien Manchon
Nature Communications 15:7663 (2024)10.1038/s41467-024-51565-6
Tunable second harmonic generation in 2D materials: comparison of different strategies
Simone Grillo, Elena Cannuccia, Maurizia Palummo, Olivia Pulci, Claudio Attaccalite
SciPost Physics Core 7:081 (2024)10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.7.4.081
Quantifying the large contribution from orbital Rashba–Edelstein effect to the effective damping-like torque on magnetization
S. Krishnia, B. Bony, E. Rongione, L. Moreno Vicente-Arche, T. Denneulin, A. Pezo, Y. Lu, R. Dunin-Borkowski, S. Collin, A. Fert, J.-M. George, N. Reyren, V. Cros, H. Jaffrès
APL Materials 12 (2024)10.1063/5.0198970
Reconfigurable spin current transmission and magnon–magnon coupling in hybrid ferrimagnetic insulators
Yan Li, Zhitao Zhang, Chen Liu, Dongxing Zheng, Bin Fang, Chenhui Zhang, Aitian Chen, Yinchang Ma, Chunmei Wang, Haoliang Liu, Ka Shen, Aurélien Manchon, John Xiao, Ziqiang Qiu, Can-Ming Hu, Xixiang Zhang
Nature Communications 15:2234 (2024)10.1038/s41467-024-46330-8
Crystal Symmetry-Dependent In-Plane Hall Effect
Liang Liu, Armando Pezo, Diego García Ovalle, Chenghang Zhou, Qia Shen, Hongliang Chen, Tieyang Zhao, Weinan Lin, Lanxin Jia, Qihan Zhang, Hengan Zhou, Yumeng Yang, Aurélien Manchon, Jingsheng Chen
Nano Letters 24:733-740 (2024)10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04242
Van der Waals epitaxy of Weyl-semimetal Td-WTe2
Alexandre Llopez, Frédéric Leroy, Calvin Tagne-Kaegom, Boris Croes, Adrien Michon, Chiara Mastropasqua, Mohamed Al Khalfioui, Stefano Curiotto, Pierre Müller, Andrés Saúl, Bertrand Kierren, Geoffroy Kremer, Patrick Le Fèvre, François Bertran, Yannick Fagot-Revurat, Fabien Cheynis
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 16:20878-20885 (2024)10.1021/acsami.4c00676
Magnetic structure of a multiferroic compound: Cu2OCl2
Julien Lévêque, Elisa Rebolini, Andrés Saúl, Marie-Bernadette Lepetit
Faraday Discussions 254:612-627 (2024)10.1039/D4FD00042K
Why the pyrochlore-like antiferromagnet NaCu3F7 is magnetically non-frustrated
Julien Lévêque, Elisa Rebolini, Marie-Bernadette Lepetit, Andrés Saúl
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 36:415803 (2024)10.1088/1361-648X/ad5d39
Charge pumping with strong spin-orbit coupling: Fermi surface breathing, Berry curvature, and higher harmonic generation
Aurélien Manchon, Armando Pezo
Physical Review B 109:184409 (2024)10.1103/PhysRevB.109.184409
Spin current leakage and Onsager reciprocity in interfacial spin-charge interconversion
Aurélien Manchon, Shuyuan Shi, Hyunsoo Yang
Physical Review B 109:094424 (2024)10.1103/PhysRevB.109.094424
Orbital Kerr effect and terahertz detection via the nonlinear Hall effect
Diego García Ovalle, Armando Pezo, Aurélien Manchon
Physical Review B 110:094439 (2024)10.1103/PhysRevB.110.094439
Keldysh theory of thermal transport in multiband Hamiltonians
Luqman Saleem, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Aurélien Manchon
Physical Review B 109:134415 (2024)10.1103/PhysRevB.109.134415
Observation of a Higher‐Order End Topological Insulator in a Real Projective Lattice
Ce Shang, Shuo Liu, Caigui Jiang, Ruiwen Shao, Xiaoning Zang, Ching Hua Lee, Ronny Thomale, Aurélien Manchon, Tie Jun Cui, Udo Schwingenschlögl
Advanced Science 11:2303222 (2024)10.1002/advs.202303222
Impact of magnon interactions on transport in honeycomb antiferromagnets
Konstantinos Sourounis, Aurélien Manchon
Physical Review B 110:054429 (2024)10.1103/PhysRevB.110.054429
Optical Properties of AgAu Alloy Clusters: Effect of Chemical Configuration along a Rearrangement Pathway
Hans-Christian Weissker, Florent Calvo
Alloys 3:31-42 (2024)10.3390/alloys3010003
Manipulation of perpendicular magnetization via magnon current with tilted polarization
Dongxing Zheng, Yan Li, Chen Liu, Jin Lan, Chao Jin, Qingxiao Wang, Linxing Zhang, Guoqiang Xi, Bin Fang, Chenhui Zhang, Hanin Algaidi, Aitian Chen, Xiang Liu, Gen Yin, Zijian Xu, John Xiao, Aurélien Manchon, Xixiang Zhang
Matter 7:3489-3499 (2024)10.1016/j.matt.2024.05.045
Topological band engineering and tunable thermal Hall effect in trimerized Lieb lattice ferromagnets
Fengjun Zhuo, Jian Kang, Zhenxiang Cheng, Aurélien Manchon
Physical Review B 109:054412 (2024)10.1103/PhysRevB.109.054412
2023
Spin-orbit torque for field-free switching in C 3 v crystals
Diego García Ovalle, Armando Pezo, Aurélien Manchon
Physical Review B 107:094422 (2023)10.1103/PhysRevB.107.094422
First-principles study of luminescence in hexagonal boron nitride single layer: exciton-phonon coupling and the role of substrate
Pierre Lechifflart, Fulvio Paleari, Davide Sangalli, Claudio Attaccalite
Physical Review Materials 7:024006 (2023)10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.024006
Orbital Hall physics in two-dimensional Dirac materials
Armando Pezo, Diego García Ovalle, Aurélien Manchon
Physical Review B 108:075427 (2023)10.1103/PhysRevB.108.075427
Pressure Dependence of Electronic, Vibrational and Optical Properties of wurtzite-Boron Nitride
Martino Silvetti, Claudio Attaccalite, Elena Cannuccia
Physical Review Materials 7:055201 (2023)10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.055201
Visualizing screening in noble-metal clusters: static vs. dynamic
Rajarshi Sinha-Roy, Pablo García-González, Xóchitl López-Lozano, Hans-Christian Weissker
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 25:2075-2083 (2023)10.1039/D2CP04316E