Thermoelectric spin diffusion in a ferromagnetic metal
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2015-05-14 v1
Abstract
We present a semiclassical theory of spin-diffusion in a ferromagnetic metal subject to a temperature gradient. Spin-flip scattering can generate pure thermal spin currents by short-circuiting spin channels while suppressing spin accumulations. A thermally induced spin density is locally generated when the energy dependence of the density of states is spin polarized.
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@article{arxiv.0912.1213,
title = {Thermoelectric spin diffusion in a ferromagnetic metal},
author = {Moosa Hatami and Gerrit E. W. Bauer and Saburo Takahashi and Sadamichi Maekawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.1213},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To be published in Special Issue of Solid State Communications on 'Spin Caloritronics'