Publications

Submitted, preprint and in-press

1. The Non-Collinear Path to Two-Dimensional Topological Superconductivity
Brüning, J. Bedow, R. Lo Conte, K. von Bergmann, D. K. Morr, R. Wiesendanger
In press: ACS Nano (2025)
arXiv:2405.14673 (2024)

!Please note that the publications (co-)authored by Dr. Lo Conte starting from 2024 have been obtained after he joined the University of Groningen!

2025

Brüning, R., Rózsa, L., Lo Conte, R., Kubetzka, A., Wiesendanger, R., & Von Bergmann, K. (2025). Topological Meron-Antimeron Domain Walls and Skyrmions in a Low-Symmetry System. Physical Review X, 15(2), Article 021041. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.021041

2024

Lo Conte, R., Wiebe, J., Rachel, S., Morr, D. K., & Wiesendanger, R. (2024). Magnet-superconductor hybrid quantum systems: a materials platform for topological superconductivity. La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 47, 453–554. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40766-024-00060-1

Rodríguez-Sota, A., Saxena, V., Spethmann, J., Wiesendanger, R., Lo Conte, R., Kubetzka, A., & von Bergmann, K. (2024). Phase Coexistence of Mn Trimer Clusters and Antiferromagnetic Mn Islands on Ir(111). Acs Nano, 18(4), 3699-3706. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c11459

Reimers, L., Schäffer, A. F., Vedmedenko, E. Y., & Lo Conte, R. (2024). Skyrmion dynamics in attractive and repulsive local magnetic fields. Journal of Applied Physics, 136(13), Article 135302. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0213580

2023

Bazarnik, M., Lo Conte, R., Mascot, E., von Bergmann, K., Morr, D. K., & Wiesendanger, R. (2023). Antiferromagnetism-driven two-dimensional topological nodal-point superconductivity. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 614. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36201-z

2022

Lo Conte, R., Bazarnik, M., Palotás, K., Rózsa, L., Szunyogh, L., Kubetzka, A., Von Bergmann, K., & Wiesendanger, R. (2022). Coexistence of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in Mn/Nb(110). Physical Review B, 105(10), Article L100406. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L100406

Chen, G., Ophus, C., Lo Conte, R., Wiesendanger, R., Yin, G., Schmid, A. K., & Liu, K. (2022). Ultrasensitive Sub-monolayer Palladium Induced Chirality Switching and Topological Evolution of Skyrmions. Nano Letters, 22(16), 6678-6684. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02043

2021

Goiriena-Goikoetxea, M., Xiao, Z., El-Ghazaly, A., Stan, C. V., Chatterjee, J., Ceballos, A., Pattabi, A., Tamura, N., Lo Conte, R., Hellman, F., Candler, R., & Bokor, J. (2021). Influence of dislocations and twin walls in BaTiO3 on the voltage-controlled switching of perpendicular magnetization. Physical Review Materials, 5(2), Article 024401. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.024401

Chen, G., Robertson, M., Hoffmann, M., Ophus, C., Fernandes Cauduro, A. L., Lo Conte, R., Ding, H., Wiesendanger, R., Blügel, S., Schmid, A. K., & Liu, K. (2021). Observation of Hydrogen-Induced Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Reversible Switching of Magnetic Chirality. Physical Review X, 11(2), Article 021015. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.021015

2020

Chen, G., Mascaraque, A., Jia, H., Zimmermann, B., Robertson, M., Conte, R. L., Hoffmann, M., Barrio, M. A. G., Ding, H., Wiesendanger, R., Michel, E. G., Blügel, S., Schmid, A. K., & Liu, K. (2020). Large Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction induced by chemisorbed oxygen on a ferromagnet surface. Science Advances, 6(33), Article eaba4924. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba4924

Jhuria, K., Hohlfeld, J., Pattabi, A., Martin, E., Arriola Córdova, A. Y., Shi, X., Lo Conte, R., Petit-Watelot, S., Rojas-Sanchez, J. C., Malinowski, G., Mangin, S., Lemaître, A., Hehn, M., Bokor, J., Wilson, R. B., & Gorchon, J. (2020). Spin–orbit torque switching of a ferromagnet with picosecond electrical pulses. Nature Electronics, 3(11), 680-686. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-00488-3

Xiao, Z., Lo Conte, R., Goiriena-Goikoetxea, M., Chopdekar, R. V., Lambert, C. H. A., Li, X., N'Diaye, A. T., Shafer, P., Tiwari, S., Barra, A., Chavez, A., Mohanchandra, K. P., Carman, G. P., Wang, K. L., Salahuddin, S., Arenholz, E., Bokor, J., & Candler, R. N. (2020). Tunable Magnetoelastic Effects in Voltage-Controlled Exchange-Coupled Composite Multiferroic Microstructures. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(5), 6752-6760. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b20876

Lo Conte, R., Nandy, A. K., Chen, G., Fernandes Cauduro, A. L., Maity, A., Ophus, C., Chen, Z., N'Diaye, A. T., Liu, K., Schmid, A. K., & Wiesendanger, R. (2020). Tuning the Properties of Zero-Field Room Temperature Ferromagnetic Skyrmions by Interlayer Exchange Coupling. Nano Letters, 20(7), 4739-4747. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00137

2019

Xiao, Z., Lo Conte, R., Goiriena, M., Chopdekar, R. V., Li, X., Tiwari, S., Lambert, C. H., Salahuddin, S., Carman, G. P., Wang, K., Bokor, J., & Candler, R. N. (2019). Electric-field controlled magnetic reorientation in exchange coupled CoFeB/Ni bilayer microstructures. In 18th International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications Article 012024 (Journal of Physics: Conference Series; Vol. 1407, No. 1). IoP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1407/1/012024

2018

Xiao, Z., Lo Conte, R., Chen, C., Liang, C. Y., Sepulveda, A., Bokor, J., Carman, G. P., & Candler, R. N. (2018). Bi-directional coupling in strain-mediated multiferroic heterostructures with magnetic domains and domain wall motion. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 5207. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23020-2

Xiao, Z., Khojah, R., Chooljian, M., Conte, R. L., Schneider, J. D., Fitzell, K., Chopdekar, R. V., Wang, Y., Scholl, A., Chang, J., Carman, G. P., Bokor, J., Carlo, D. D., & Candler, R. N. (2018). Cytocompatible magnetostrictive microstructures for nano- A nd microparticle manipulation on linear strain response piezoelectrics. Multifunctional Materials, 1(1), Article 014004. https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-7532/aae4d7

Lo Conte, R., Gorchon, J., Mougin, A., Lambert, C. H. A., El-Ghazaly, A., Scholl, A., Salahuddin, S., & Bokor, J. (2018). Electrically controlled switching of the magnetization state in multiferroic BaTi O3/CoFe submicrometer structures. Physical Review Materials, 2(9), Article 091402. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.091402

Xiao, Z., Mohanchandra, K. P., Lo Conte, R., Ty Karaba, C., Schneider, J. D., Chavez, A., Tiwari, S., Sohn, H., Nowakowski, M. E., Scholl, A., Tolbert, S. H., Bokor, J., Carman, G. P., & Candler, R. N. (2018). Enhanced magnetoelectric coupling in a composite multiferroic system via interposing a thin film polymer. AIP Advances, 8(5), Article 055907. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5007655

Karnad, G. V., Gorini, C., Lee, K., Schulz, T., Lo Conte, R., Wells, A. W. J., Han, D. S., Shahbazi, K., Kim, J. S., Moore, T. A., Swagten, H. J. M., Eckern, U., Raimondi, R., & Kläui, M. (2018). Evidence for phonon skew scattering in the spin Hall effect of platinum. Physical Review B, 97(10), Article 100405. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.100405

Lo Conte, R., Xiao, Z., Chen, C., Stan, C. V., Gorchon, J., El-Ghazaly, A., Nowakowski, M. E., Sohn, H., Pattabi, A., Scholl, A., Tamura, N., Sepulveda, A., Carman, G. P., Candler, R. N., & Bokor, J. (2018). Influence of Nonuniform Micron-Scale Strain Distributions on the Electrical Reorientation of Magnetic Microstructures in a Composite Multiferroic Heterostructure. Nano Letters, 18(3), 1952-1961. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b05342

Karnad, G. V., Freimuth, F., Martinez, E., Lo Conte, R., Gubbiotti, G., Schulz, T., Senz, S., Ocker, B., Mokrousov, Y., & Kläui, M. (2018). Modification of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-Interaction-Stabilized Domain Wall Chirality by Driving Currents. Physical Review Letters, 121(14), Article 147203. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.147203

2017

Schulz, T., Lee, K., Krüger, B., Lo Conte, R., Karnad, G. V., Garcia, K., Vila, L., Ocker, B., Ravelosona, D., & Kläui, M. (2017). Effective field analysis using the full angular spin-orbit torque magnetometry dependence. Physical Review B, 95(22), Article 224409. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.224409

Lo Conte, R., Karnad, G. V., Martinez, E., Lee, K., Kim, N. H., Han, D. S., Kim, J. S., Prenzel, S., Schulz, T., You, C. Y., Swagten, H. J. M., & Kläui, M. (2017). Ferromagnetic layer thickness dependence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and spin-orbit torques in Pt\Co\AlO_x. AIP Advances, 7(6), Article 065317. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4990694

2016

Finizio, S., Vafaee, M., Valmiansky, I., Reeve, R. M., Lo Conte, R., Kleibert, A., Schuller, I. K., & Klaui, M. (2016). Control of the Magnetic Configuration of Ferromagnetic Nanostructures Across the Structural Phase Transition of Vanadium Dioxide. Ieee magnetics letters, 7. https://doi.org/10.1109/LMAG.2016.2605625

2015

Lo Conte, R., Martinez, E., Hrabec, A., Lamperti, A., Schulz, T., Nasi, L., Lazzarini, L., Mantovan, R., Maccherozzi, F., Dhesi, S. S., Ocker, B., Marrows, C. H., Moore, T. A., & Kläui, M. (2015). Role of B diffusion in the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in Ta/Co20 F e60 B20/MgO nanowires. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 91(1), Article 014433. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.014433

Schulz, T., Alejos, O., Martinez, E., Hals, K. M. D., Garcia, K., Vila, L., Lee, K., Lo Conte, R., Karnad, G. V., Moretti, S., Ocker, B., Ravelosona, D., Brataas, A., & Kläui, M. (2015). Spin-orbit torques for current parallel and perpendicular to a domain wall. Applied Physics Letters, 107(12), Article 122405. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4931429

Conte, R. L., Hrabec, A., Mihai, A., Schulz, T., Noh, S., Marrows, C., Moore, T., & Klaeui, M. (2015). Spin orbit torque switching in Ta/CoFeB/MgO without longitudinal fields. In 2015 IEEE International Magnetics Conference, INTERMAG 2015 Article 7156646 (2015 IEEE International Magnetics Conference, INTERMAG 2015). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/INTMAG.2015.7156646

2014

Lo Conte, R., Hrabec, A., Mihai, A. P., Schulz, T., Noh, S. J., Marrows, C. H., Moore, T. A., & Kläui, M. (2014). Spin-orbit torque-driven magnetization switching and thermal effects studied in Ta\CoFeB\MgO nanowires. Applied Physics Letters, 105(12), Article 122404. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4896225

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