Journal Articles

Scagnoli, V, Skjærvø, SH, Massey, JR, Sendetskyi, O, Leo, N, Mazzoli, C, Heyderman, LJ, Derlet, PM (2025) Stretched exponential magnetic relaxation dynamics in artificial square ice revealed through x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, Physical Review B, 112(18), 184407, ISSN: 2469-9950. DOI: 10.1103/jyf8-4g92.

Menniti, M, Leo, N, Villalba-González, P, Pancaldi, M, Vavassori, P (2025) Relaxation pathways and emergence of domains in square artificial spin ice, Physical Review B, 112(13), 134410, ISSN: 2469-9950. DOI: 10.1103/9mlg-ckxl.

Muduli, PK, Leo, N, Xu, M, Zhu, Z, Puebla, J, Pauyac, CO, Isshiki, H, Otani, Y (2025) Electrical detection of interfacial exchange field at the (ferromagnetic insulator) | (normal metal) interface using spin-dependent scattering, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 58(28), 285003, ISSN: 0022-3727. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ade691.

Fullerton, J, Leo, N, Jurczyk, J, Donnelly, C, Sanz‐Hernández, D, Skoric, L, Mille, N, Stanescu, S, MacLaren, DA, Belkhou, R, Hierro‐Rodriguez, A, Fernández‐Pacheco, A (2025) Fractional skyrmion tubes in chiral‐interfaced 3D magnetic nanowires, Advanced Functional Materials, 2501615, ISSN: 1616-301X. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202501615.

Sandoval, MAC, Jurczyk, J, Skoric, L, Sanz-Hernández, D, Leo, N, Kovacs, A, Schrefl, T, Hierro-Rodríguez, A, Fernández-Pacheco, A (2025) Remote-sensing based control of 3D magnetic fields using machine learning for in operando applications, Journal of Applied Physics, 137(11), 113905, ISSN: 0021-8979. DOI: 10.1063/5.0249846.

Alekhin, A, Lomonosov, AM, Leo, N, Ludwig, M, Vlasov, VS, Kotov, L, Leitenstorfer, A, Gaal, P, Vavassori, P, Temnov, V (2023) Quantitative Ultrafast Magnetoacoustics at Magnetic Metasurfaces, Nano Letters, 23(20), pp.9295-9302, ISSN: 1530-6984. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02336.

Venkat, G, Cox, CDW, Zhou, Z, Leo, N, Kinane, CJ, Caruana, AJ, Morrison, K (2023) Enhancement of spin Seebeck effect in Fe₃O₄/Pt thin films with α-Fe nanodroplets, Applied Physics Letters, 123(17), 172408, ISSN: 0003-6951. DOI: 10.1063/5.0165851.

Lehmann, J, Leo, N, Heyderman, LJ, Fiebig, M (2023) Long-range order in arrays of composite and monolithic magnetotoroidal moments, Physical Review B, 108(10), 104405, ISSN: 2469-9950. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.108.104405.

Koshikawa, AS, Llandro, J, Ohzeki, M, Fukami, S, Ohno, H, Leo, N (2023) Magnetic order in nanoscale gyroid networks, Physical Review B, 108(2), 024414, ISSN: 2469-9950. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.108.024414.

Gypens, P, Leo, N, Menniti, M, Vavassori, P, Leliaert, J (2022) Thermoplasmonic Nanomagnetic Logic Gates, Physical Review Applied, 18(2), 024014, DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.18.024014.

Groen, I, Pham, VT, Leo, N, Marty, A, Hueso, LE, Casanova, F (2021) Disentangling Spin, Anomalous, and Planar Hall Effects in Ferromagnet–Heavy-Metal Nanostructures, Physical Review Applied, 15(4), 044010, DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.044010.

Leo, N, Pancaldi, M, Koraltan, S, González, PV, Abert, C, Vogler, C, Slanovc, F, Bruckner, F, Heistracher, P, Hofhuis, K, Menniti, M, Suess, D, Vavassori, P (2021) Chiral switching and dynamic barrier reductions in artificial square ice, New Journal of Physics, 23(3), pp.033024-033024, DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/abe3ad.

Pip, P, Glavic, A, Skjærvø, SH, Weber, A, Smerald, A, Zhernenkov, K, Leo, N, Mila, F, Philippe, L, Heyderman, LJ (2021) Direct observation of spin correlations in an artificial triangular lattice Ising spin system with grazing-incidence small-angle neutron scattering, Nanoscale Horizons, 6(6), pp.474-481, ISSN: 2055-6756. DOI: 10.1039/d1nh00043h.

Hofhuis, K, Hrabec, A, Arava, H, Leo, N, Huang, Y-L, Chopdekar, RV, Parchenko, S, Kleibert, A, Koraltan, S, Abert, C, Vogler, C, Suess, D, Derlet, PM, Heyderman, LJ (2020) Thermally superactive artificial kagome spin ice structures obtained with the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, Physical Review B, 102(18), 180405, ISSN: 2469-9950. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.102.180405.

Lehmann, J, Bortis, A, Derlet, PM, Donnelly, C, Leo, N, Heyderman, LJ, Fiebig, M (2020) Relation between microscopic interactions and macroscopic properties in ferroics, Nature Nanotechnology, 15(11), pp.896-900, ISSN: 1748-3387. DOI: 10.1038/s41565-020-0763-9.

Koraltan, S, Pancaldi, M, Leo, N, Abert, C, Vogler, C, Hofhuis, K, Slanovc, F, Bruckner, F, Heistracher, P, Menniti, M, Vavassori, P, Suess, D (2020) Dependence of energy barrier reduction on collective excitations in square artificial spin ice: A comprehensive comparison of simulation techniques, Physical Review B, 102(6), 064410, ISSN: 2469-9950. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.102.064410.

Sendetskyi, O, Scagnoli, V, Leo, N, Anghinolfi, L, Alberca, A, Lüning, J, Staub, U, Derlet, PM, Heyderman, LJ (2019) Continuous magnetic phase transition in artificial square ice, Physical Review B, 99(21), 214430, ISSN: 2469-9950. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.99.214430.

Arava, H, Leo, N, Schildknecht, D, Cui, J, Vijayakumar, J, Derlet, PM, Kleibert, A, Heyderman, LJ (2019) Engineering Relaxation Pathways in Building Blocks of Artificial Spin Ice for Computation, Physical Review Applied, 11(5), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.054086.

Pancaldi, M, Leo, N, Vavassori, P (2019) Selective and fast plasmon-assisted photo-heating of nanomagnets, Nanoscale, 11(16), pp.7656-7666, ISSN: 2040-3364. DOI: 10.1039/c9nr01628g.

Leo, N, Carolus, V, White, JS, Kenzelmann, M, Hudl, M, Tolédano, P, Honda, T, Kimura, T, Ivanov, SA, Weil, M, Lottermoser, T, Meier, D, Fiebig, M (2018) Erratum to: Magnetoelectric inversion of domain patterns (Nature, (2018), 560, 7719, (466-470), 10.1038/s41586-018-0432-4), Nature, 563(7732), E29, ISSN: 0028-0836. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0560-x.

Gurung, N, Leo, N, Collins, SP, Nisbet, G, Smolentsev, G, García-Fernández, M, Yamaura, K, Heyderman, LJ, Staub, U, Joly, Y, Khalyavin, DD, Lovesey, SW, Scagnoli, V (2018) Direct observation of electron density reconstruction at the metal-insulator transition in NaOs O3, Physical Review B, 98(11), ISSN: 2469-9950. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.115116.

Leo, N, Carolus, V, White, JS, Kenzelmann, M, Hudl, M, Tolédano, P, Honda, T, Kimura, T, Ivanov, SA, Weil, M, Lottermoser, T, Meier, D, Fiebig, M (2018) Magnetoelectric inversion of domain patterns, Nature, 560(7719), pp.466-470, ISSN: 0028-0836. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0432-4.

Leo, N, Holenstein, S, Schildknecht, D, Sendetskyi, O, Luetkens, H, Derlet, PM, Scagnoli, V, Lançon, D, Mardegan, JRL, Prokscha, T, Suter, A, Salman, Z, Lee, S, Heyderman, LJ (2018) Collective magnetism in an artificial 2D XY spin system, Nature Communications, 9(1), 2850, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05216-2.

Donnelly, C, Heyderman, LJ, Gliga, S, Guizar‐Sicairos, M (2017) Röntgenblick für Magnete, Physik in unserer Zeit, 48(6), pp.266-267, ISSN: 0031-9252. DOI: 10.1002/piuz.201770604.

Sendetskyi, O, Anghinolfi, L, Scagnoli, V, Möller, G, Leo, N, Alberca, A, Kohlbrecher, J, Lüning, J, Staub, U, Heyderman, LJ (2016) Magnetic diffuse scattering in artificial kagome spin ice, Physical Review B, 93(22), 224413, ISSN: 2469-9950. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.93.224413.

Leo, N, Meier, D, Becker, P, Bohatý, L, Fiebig, M (2015) Magnetically driven second-harmonic generation with phase matching in MnWO_4, Optics Express, 23(21), pp.27700-27700, DOI: 10.1364/oe.23.027700.

Tolédano, P, Ackermann, M, Bohatý, L, Becker, P, Lorenz, T, Leo, N, Fiebig, M (2015) Primary ferrotoroidicity in antiferromagnets, Physical Review B, 92(9), 094431, ISSN: 1098-0121. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.92.094431.

Leo, N, Bergman, A, Cano, A, Poudel, N, Lorenz, B, Fiebig, M, Meier, D (2015) Polarization control at spin-driven ferroelectric domain walls, Nature Communications, 6(1), 6661, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7661.

Reim, JD, Rosén, E, Schweika, W, Meven, M, Leo, NR, Meier, D, Fiebig, M, Schmidt, M, Kuo, C-Y, Pi, T-W, Hu, Z, Valldor, M (2014) Structural invariance upon antiferromagnetic ordering in geometrically frustrated swedenborgite, CaBaCo₂Fe₂O₇, Journal of Applied Crystallography, 47(6), pp.2038-2047, DOI: 10.1107/s1600576714023528.

Kumagai, Y, Belik, AA, Lilienblum, M, Leo, N, Fiebig, M, Spaldin, NA (2012) Observation of persistent centrosymmetricity in the hexagonal manganite family, Physical Review B, 85(17), 174422, ISSN: 1098-0121. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.85.174422.

Leo, N, Meier, D, Pisarev, RV, Lee, N, Cheong, S-W, Fiebig, M (2012) Independent ferroelectric contributions and rare-earth-induced polarization reversal in multiferroic TbMn2O5, Physical Review B, 85(9), 094408, ISSN: 1098-0121. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.85.094408.

Tolédano, P, Leo, N, Khalyavin, DD, Chapon, LC, Hoffmann, T, Meier, D, Fiebig, M (2011) Theory of High-Temperature Multiferroicity in Cupric Oxide, Physical Review Letters, 106(25), 257601, ISSN: 0031-9007. DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.257601.

Meier, D, Leo, N, Yuan, G, Lottermoser, T, Fiebig, M, Becker, P, Bohatý, L (2010) Second harmonic generation on incommensurate structures: The case of multiferroicMnWO4, Physical Review B, 82(15), 155112, ISSN: 1098-0121. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.82.155112.

Meier, D, Leo, N, Maringer, M, Lottermoser, T, Fiebig, M, Becker, P, Bohatý, L (2009) Topology and manipulation of multiferroic hybrid domains inMnWO4, Physical Review B, 80(22), 224420, ISSN: 1098-0121. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.80.224420.

Meier, D, Leo, N, Lottermoser, T, Becker, P, Bohatý, L, Fiebig, M (2009) Imaging of Hybrid-Multiferroic and Translation Domains in a Spin-Spiral Ferroelectric, MRS Proceedings, 1199, 1199-F02-07, ISSN: 0272-9172. DOI: 10.1557/proc-1199-f02-07.