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25 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 285 Magnetic properties of thin films papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Among these, symmetry analysis identifies 36 altermagnets and 11 Luttinger‐compensated ferrimagnets (LCFs), including 22 altermagnets and 9 LCFs that have not been reported previously.

    Data‐Driven Discovery of Unconventional Antiferromagnets · 2026 · DOI

  • The spin-reorientation transition (SRT) in rare-earth permanent magnets often reconfigures magnetic anisotropy, yet its direct impact on low-temperature coercivity remains underexplored.

    Spin-reorientation-triggered non-monotonic low-temperature coercivity and voltage-gated two-stage hydrogenation in PrCo5 · 2026 · DOI

  • Currently, the characteristics of magnetization reversal in in-plane orthogonal anisotropy systems remain unclear, while hard magnetic (HM)/soft magnetic (SM) systems exhibit distinct advantages over conventional antiferromagnetic/ferromagnetic systems.

    Micromagnetic simulations of magnetization reversal in <i>L</i> 1 <sub>0</sub> FePt/FeCo exchange-bias bilayers with in-plane orthogonal anisotropy · 2026 · DOI

  • The following questions are honestly open and not addressed by this note: 1. What is the minimum detectable field perturbation that constitutes a reliable bit transition, given thermal noise at operating temperature? 2. How does crosstalk between adjacent magnetic moments constrain the density of a practical array? 3. Does the Cohesion UFT geometric account of restoring torque suggest specific material properties that would optimise the free reset step? 4. How does this direction relate to the existing spintronic literature on reversible magnetic switching? 5. Is the asymmetry between write cost and reset cost quantitatively consistent with Landauer’s principle for reversible computation? These questions are left for researchers with the experimental and engineering expertise to address them.

    Magnetic Orientation as a Non-Electronic Bit · 2026 · DOI

  • The Lorentz TEM imaging and simulations are performed at room temperature and at a fixed defocus distance of −1 mm; the contrast and detectability of bimerons under variable defocus conditions and at cryogenic temperatures remain uncharacterized, limiting the accessibility of low-temperature transition observations.

    Light-induced bimerons in a chiral magnet · 2026 · DOI

  • While the paper demonstrates tuning of laser-induced bimeron density through applied magnetic fields, the quantitative relationship between applied field strength, bimeron nucleation rate, and topological charge distribution during femtosecond laser excitation is not systematically characterized.

    Light-induced bimerons in a chiral magnet · 2026 · DOI

  • The micromagnetic model incorporates an 8 nm FIB-damaged surface layer with D = 0, but the paper does not investigate how varying the thickness or magnetic properties of this surface-damaged region affects bimeron stability, density, and laser-writing efficiency across different sample preparation protocols.

    Light-induced bimerons in a chiral magnet · 2026 · DOI

  • The femtosecond laser-induced bimeron generation was demonstrated only in Co8Zn8Mn4 thin plates with thicknesses of 90-200 nm; the feasibility of optical writing of topological spin textures in thicker samples or other chiral magnet systems with in-plane magnetization remains unexplored.

    Light-induced bimerons in a chiral magnet · 2026 · DOI

  • The micromagnetic simulations predict a high-field structural transition from bimeron to skyrmion in Co8Zn8Mn4 thin films, but thermal fluctuations at room temperature prevent direct experimental observation of this transition. Low-temperature TEM studies are needed to experimentally verify the bimeron-to-skyrmion conversion dynamics across varying magnetic field strengths.

    Light-induced bimerons in a chiral magnet · 2026 · DOI

  • Although room-temperature ferromagnetic skyrmions and their current-induced manipulation have been demonstrated, their velocity has been limited to about 100 meters per second.

    Fast current-induced skyrmion motion in synthetic antiferromagnets · 2024 · DOI

  • Altermagnetism with non-collinear spins Sang-Wook Cheong 1 ✉ and Fei-Ting Huang 1 Altermagnetism is introduced as a category of magnetic states with ‘collinear’ antiferromagnetic spins and alternating variations of local structures around spins in such a way that the symmetry allows typical ferromagnetic behaviors. Altermagnets exhibiting ferromagnetic behaviors without any external perturbations (type-I) turn out to belong to the ferromagnetic point group. Other altermagnets (type-II and type-III) can have ferromagnetic behaviors only with external perturbations such as electric current or stress, which conserve parity-time-reversal (PT) symmetry. All types of altermagnets themselves have broken PT symmetry. The concept of altermagnetism can be extended to accommodate non-collinear spins and multiple local-structure variations. npj Quantum Materials (2024) 9:13; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-024-00626-6;,:) ( 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 INTRODUCTION Spintronics1–4 where spin and charge degrees of freedom are mutually coupled and manipulated through crossing conjugate fields (i.e., electric fields for spins and magnetic fields for charges) has been an active research area for the last three decades since the discovery of giant magnetoresistance5–8, and has been well implemented in real devices. Traditionally, spintronics utilizes ferro-(ferri)magnets since the manipulation and detection of these ferro-(ferri)magnetic states are straightforward. But antiferromagnetic spintronics1,3,9–11 has become highly topical due to the the antiferromagnetic state and its active manipulation of magnetic textures via spin and charge currents. Antiferromagnetic materials, in general, could embody the numerous interesting features beneficial for spintronic applications12–14: they produce no stray fields, so are robust against external magnetic fields and make them suitable for device miniaturization, display ultrafast dynamics in THz ranges, and are capable of generating good spincurrent transport with micrometer spin-diffusion lengths. Altermagnets15–20 are magnets with collinear antiferro- ‘alter’nating spins), and also arrangement of one-kind spins (i.e., simultaneously with ‘alter’nating orientations of local structures around spins, maintaining a symmetry that enables ferromagnetic behaviors (non-zero net magnetic moment, Anomalous Hall effect (AHE), etc.)18,21. In other words, in altermagnets, spin magnetic moments are fully compensated when spin-orbital coupling (SOC) is zero, but non-zero SOC, enabling coupling between spins and alternating local structures (such as oxygen coordination around magnetic ions), can result in a non-zero net magnetic moment and other ferromagnetic behaviors through uncompensated ‘orbital magnetic moments’. FERROMAGNETISM VS. ANTIFERROMAGNETISM Surprisingly, antiferromagnetism is not formally defined even though the term has been used frequently, but the ferromagnetic point group is well-defined in terms of symmetry.

    Altermagnetism with non-collinear spins · 2024 · DOI

  • In Rashba two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs), charge-to-spin conversion via the Edelstein effect is conventionally limited to the transverse plane.

    Chirped Floquet linear drives activate forbidden charge-to-spin conversions in Rashba two-dimensional electron gases · 2026

  • ABSTRACT Non‐van‐der‐Waals (non‐vdW) layered magnets provide bonding degrees of freedom beyond dispersion‐dominated stacks, yet how dilute interlayer covalent bridges influence bulk‐to‐monolayer evolution remains insufficiently understood.

    Sparse Pd–Te Covalent Bridges Drive Anomalous Bulk‐to‐Monolayer Electronic and Magnetic Evolution in FePd <sub>2</sub> Te <sub>2</sub> · 2026 · DOI

  • Extension of the current seven-term Fibonacci inflation to longer sequences and investigation of computational scalability limits for plane-wave methods in higher-order approximants remain unexplored.

    Mode localization in chiral periodic approximants of Fibonacci magnonic superlattices · 2026 · DOI

  • The application of these Fibonacci-based magnonic crystals as compact, reconfigurable building blocks for filters, multiplexers, and logic magnonic elements has been proposed but requires further development and experimental demonstration.

    Mode localization in chiral periodic approximants of Fibonacci magnonic superlattices · 2026 · DOI

  • The physical mechanism does not rely on special arithmetic properties of the Fibonacci sequence, suggesting that other aperiodic orderings could yield qualitatively similar phenomenology, but this replacement has not been experimentally validated.

    Mode localization in chiral periodic approximants of Fibonacci magnonic superlattices · 2026 · DOI

  • While the Fibonacci pattern is adopted for clarity and reproducibility, the generalization of flat-band formation to other aperiodic arrangements beyond Fibonacci sequences requires systematic investigation.

    Mode localization in chiral periodic approximants of Fibonacci magnonic superlattices · 2026 · DOI

  • The plane-wave method applied to a periodic approximant provides a tractable framework, but extending this approach to true aperiodic structures without periodic approximation remains unexplored.

    Mode localization in chiral periodic approximants of Fibonacci magnonic superlattices · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper demonstrates the inverse Doppler effect in backward volume magnetostatic spin waves (BVMSWs) at low wave numbers, but practical implementation in spin logic circuit design requires further development.

    Distinguishing backward volume magnetostatic spin wave vectors via the spin wave Doppler effect · 2026 · DOI

  • Analyzing the spin wave Doppler effect offers a novel perspective for understanding intrinsic interactions and can also help mitigate serious interference issues in the design of spin logic circuits.

    Distinguishing backward volume magnetostatic spin wave vectors via the spin wave Doppler effect · 2026 · DOI

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