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Time-reversal-symmetry-breaking spin injection from a compensated magnet

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Funding

We acknowledge funding from MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (grant nos. CEX2020-001038-M and CEX2025-001634-M), from MICIU/AEI and ERDF/EU (project no. PID2024-155708OB-I00), from MICIU/AEI and the European Union under the M.ERA-NET programme (project no. PCI2026-177428-1), and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska–Curie grant agreement no. 955671 (SPEAR). We also acknowledge the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (grant no. 22-17899K), the MEYS of the Czech Republic through the OP JAK call Excellent Research (TERAFIT project no. CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004594), the Dioscuri Program LV23025 funded by the Max Planck Society and the MEYS of the Czech Republic, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and the COST action CHIROMAG. This work was also supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR) (project HEXAS ANR (grant no. 24-CE92-0038-02), and under the PEPR SPIN projects SPINMAT (grant no. ANR-2-EXPSP-0007) and ALTEROSPIN (grant no. ANR-24-EXSP-0002). J.M. acknowledges funding from the Department of Education of the Basque Government under the Predoctoral Programme for the training of nondoctoral research staff (grant no. PRE_2022_1_0297). L.S. acknowledges funding from the ERC Starting Grant (no. 101165122). D.K. acknowledges the Lumina Quaeruntur fellowship LQ100102201 of the Czech Academy of Sciences. O.G. and J.S. acknowledge support of the DFG (Elasto-Q-Mat, TRR 288 - 422213477 projects A12 and A09, and Spin+X TRR 173-268565370 projects A03 and B15). N.S. acknowledges support from the Programa de Desarrollo de las Ciencias Básicas (PEDECIBA). T.K. acknowledges support from the Research Council of Finland through DYNCOR (project no. 354735) and through the Finnish Quantum Flagship (project no. 359240). His work is also part of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Quantum Materials. F.S.B. thanks financial support from the Spanish MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 through project no. PID2023-148225NB-C31, the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101130224 (JOSEPHINE), and the Finnish InstituteQ under the Chair of Excellence programme. T.J. acknowledges support from the European Research Council Advanced Grant (no. 101095925) and MEYS of the Czech Republic (grant no. LM2023051).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. CIC nanoGUNE BRTA, Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain

    Jone Mencos, Eoin Dolan, Luis E. Hueso & Fèlix Casanova

  2. Departamento de Polímeros y Materiales Avanzados: Física, Química y Tecnología, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain

    Jone Mencos & Eoin Dolan

  3. Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

    Antonin Badura, Anna Birk Hellenes, Dominik Kriegner, Tomáš Jungwirth, Libor Šmejkal & Helena Reichlova

  4. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Antonin Badura

  5. Dresden Center for Nanoanalysis, cfaed, TUD University of Technology Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Sebastian Beckert

  6. Departamento de Física, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia

    Rafael González-Hernández

  7. Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Rafael González-Hernández, Anna Birk Hellenes, Warlley Campos, Jairo Sinova & Olena Gomonay

  8. Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Nicolás Sigales

  9. Grupo disciplinar Física, Departamento Suelos y Aguas, Facultad de Agronomía, UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Nicolás Sigales

  10. Centro de Física de Materiales (CFM-MPC) Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain

    Nicolás Sigales & F. Sebastian Bergeret

  11. Department of Physics and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Tim Kokkeler

  12. Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, CINaM, Marseille, France

    Ismaïla Kounta, Matthieu Petit, Charles Guillemard & Lisa Michez

  13. Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

    Warlley Campos & Libor Šmejkal

  14. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, Grenoble INP, IRIG-SPINTEC, Grenoble, France

    Javier Rial & Vincent Baltz

  15. Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

    Luis E. Hueso & Fèlix Casanova

  16. Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain

    F. Sebastian Bergeret

  17. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Tomáš Jungwirth

  18. Center for Science and Innovation in Spintronics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Tomáš Jungwirth

  19. Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany

    Libor Šmejkal

Authors

  1. Jone Mencos
  2. Antonin Badura
  3. Eoin Dolan
  4. Sebastian Beckert
  5. Rafael González-Hernández
  6. Nicolás Sigales
  7. Tim Kokkeler
  8. Ismaïla Kounta
  9. Matthieu Petit
  10. Charles Guillemard
  11. Anna Birk Hellenes
  12. Warlley Campos
  13. Javier Rial
  14. Dominik Kriegner
  15. Vincent Baltz
  16. Luis E. Hueso
  17. Jairo Sinova
  18. F. Sebastian Bergeret
  19. Olena Gomonay
  20. Tomáš Jungwirth
  21. Libor Šmejkal
  22. Lisa Michez
  23. Helena Reichlova
  24. Fèlix Casanova

Contributions

H.R. and F.C. conceived the research. I.K., M.P., C.G., A.B. and L.M. prepared and characterized the Mn5Si3 thin films. J.M. fabricated the samples, with input from A.B., S.B. and J.R.; J.M. performed the electrical measurements and J.M., O.G., T.J., H.R. and F.C. analysed the data. E.D. performed the finite element method simulations. A.B.H., W.C., R.G.-H. and L.S. performed the first-principles calculations. N.S., T.K. and F.S.B. developed the quantitative description of the spin signal based on the spin diffusion formalism. D.K., J.S., V.B. and L.E.H. contributed to discussions and data analysis. J.M., F.C., T.J. and H.R. co-wrote the manuscript with input from all authors. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Helena Reichlova or Fèlix Casanova.

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Mencos, J., Badura, A., Dolan, E. et al. Time-reversal-symmetry-breaking spin injection from a compensated magnet. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11227-7

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