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2026

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D-Index
92
Citations
46536
World Ranking
2076
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Tomas Jungwirth is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their research spans several interconnected fields and subfields, primarily focusing on Physics and Astronomy as well as Materials Science.

The main areas of study include:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Materials Science

Within these fields, their work is concentrated on several subfields:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry

Their research topics cover diverse aspects of material properties and phenomena, such as:

  • Magnetic properties of thin films
  • Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Multiferroics and related materials

Jungwirth has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with notable recent publications including:

  • Emerging Research Landscape of Altermagnetism, 2022, Physical Review X
  • Beyond Conventional Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism: A Phase with Nonrelativistic Spin and Crystal Rotation Symmetry, 2022, Physical Review X
  • Crystal time-reversal symmetry breaking and spontaneous Hall effect in collinear antiferromagnets, 2020, Science Advances
  • An anomalous Hall effect in altermagnetic ruthenium dioxide, 2022, Nature Electronics
  • Efficient Electrical Spin Splitter Based on Nonrelativistic Collinear Antiferromagnetism, 2021, Physical Review Letters

The scientist collaborates frequently with a core group of researchers including:

  • Libor Šmejkal
  • Jairo Sinova
  • Dominik Kriegner
  • K. Olejník
  • R. P. Campion

Jungwirth's findings have been published in several prominent venues, with multiple papers in these journals and repositories:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review B
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Physical Review X

In recognition of scientific contributions, they were elected a Member of Academia Europaea in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Spin Hall effects

    Jairo Sinova;Sergio O. Valenzuela;J. Wunderlich;C. H. Back

  • Universal intrinsic spin Hall effect.

    Jairo Sinova;Jairo Sinova;Dimitrie Culcer;Qian Niu;N. A. Sinitsyn

  • Experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled semiconductor system.

    J. Wunderlich;B. Kaestner;B. Kaestner;J. Sinova;T. Jungwirth

  • Theory of ferromagnetic (III, Mn) V semiconductors

    T. Jungwirth;Jairo Sinova;J. Mašek;J. Kučera

  • Electrical switching of an antiferromagnet.

    P. Wadley;Bryn Howells;J. Železný;J. Železný;C. Andrews

  • Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems

    Aurelien Manchon;Jakub Železný;Ioan M. Miron;Tomas Jungwirth

  • First Principles Calculation of Anomalous Hall Conductivity in Ferromagnetic bcc Fe

    Yugui Yao;Yugui Yao;Leonard Kleinman;Allan H Macdonald;Jairo Sinova;Jairo Sinova

  • Anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic semiconductors

    T. Jungwirth;Qian Niu;A. H. MacDonald

  • Electrical switching of an antiferromagnet

    Peter Wadley;Bryn Howells;Jakub Zelezny;Carl Andrews

  • Interface-induced phenomena in magnetism

    Frances Hellman;Axel Hoffmann;Yaroslav Tserkovnyak;Geoffrey S.D. Beach

  • Room-temperature antiferromagnetic memory resistor

    X. Marti;I. Fina;C. Frontera;Jian Liu

  • A spin-valve-like magnetoresistance of an antiferromagnet-based tunnel junction

    B. G. Park;J. Wunderlich;X. Martí;V. Holý

  • Spin Hall effect devices

    Tomas Jungwirth;Jörg Wunderlich;Kamil Olejník

  • Prospects for high temperature ferromagnetism in (Ga,Mn)As semiconductors

    T. Jungwirth;K. Y. Wang;J. Mašek;K. W. Edmonds

  • Relativistic Néel-order fields induced by electrical current in antiferromagnets

    J. Železný;H. Gao;K. Výborný;J. Zemen

  • Tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance: a spin-valve-like tunnel magnetoresistance using a single magnetic layer.

    C. Gould;C. Rüster;T. Jungwirth;T. Jungwirth;E. Girgis

  • The multiple directions of antiferromagnetic spintronics

    T. Jungwirth;T. Jungwirth;J. Sinova;J. Sinova;Aurelien Manchon;X. Marti

  • Writing and reading antiferromagnetic Mn2Au by Néel spin-orbit torques and large anisotropic magnetoresistance.

    S. Yu. Bodnar;L. Šmejkal;L. Šmejkal;L. Šmejkal;I. Turek;T. Jungwirth;T. Jungwirth

  • Writing and Reading antiferromagnetic Mn$_2$Au: N'eel spin-orbit torques and large anisotropic magnetoresistance

    S. Yu. Bodnar;L. Šmejkal;I. Turek;T. Jungwirth

  • Spin Hall effect in a two dimensional spin-orbit coupled semiconductor system

    Joerg Wunderlich;Bernd Kaestner;K. Nomura;Jairo Sinova

Frequent Co-Authors

Jairo Sinova
Jairo Sinova Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
R. P. Campion
R. P. Campion University of Nottingham
Allan H. MacDonald
Allan H. MacDonald The University of Texas at Austin
K. W. Edmonds
K. W. Edmonds University of Nottingham
Laurens W. Molenkamp
Laurens W. Molenkamp University of Würzburg
Qian Niu
Qian Niu The University of Texas at Austin
Carlos Frontera
Carlos Frontera Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
Kaiyou Wang
Kaiyou Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nava Setter
Nava Setter École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jaume Gazquez
Jaume Gazquez Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona

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