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Received yesterday — 21 October 2026 ⏭ Nature

Octupole-driven spin torque switching of antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions

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By: Jaimin Kang · Mohammad Hamdi · Shun Kong Cheung · Lin-Ding Yuan · Mohamed Elekhtiar · Eric Matt · William Rogers · Andrea Meo · Peter G. Lim · M. S. Nicholas Tey · Anthony D’Addario · Shiva T. Konakanchi · Jordan Athas · Sevdenur Arpaci · Antoine Devincenti · Lei Wan · Sanjay C. Mehta · Nicholas Zogbi · Vinod K. Sangwan · Jean Anne C. Incorvia · Jennifer Fowlie · Pramey Upadhyaya · Mario Carpentieri · Vinayak P. Dravid · Mark C. Hersam · Jordan A. Katine · Gregory D. Fuchs · Giovanni Finocchio · Evgeny Y. Tsymbal · James M. Rondinelli · Pedram Khalili Amiri
21 October 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11172-5

All-antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions can display both a large TMR and a reciprocal switching effect, octupole-driven spin-transfer torque, enabling nanoscale magnetic memory and potentially room-temperature terahertz spintronic devices.
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