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Spin torque and Nernst effects in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya ferromagnets

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-04-20 v3

Abstract

We predict that a temperature gradient can induce a magnon-mediated intrinsic torque and a transverse spin current in systems with non-trivial magnon Berry curvature. With the help of a microscopic linear response theory of nonequilibrium magnon-mediated torques and spin currents we identify the interband and intraband components that manifest in ferromagnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and magnetic textures. To illustrate and assess the importance of such effects, we apply our theory to the magnon-mediated spin Nernst and torque responses in a kagome lattice ferromagnet.

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@article{arxiv.1509.05847,
  title  = {Spin torque and Nernst effects in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya ferromagnets},
  author = {Alexey A. Kovalev and Vladimir Zyuzin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.05847},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, supplemental material