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Spin torque nano-oscillators realized by magnetization dynamics trapped in a current-induced potential are reported. We fabricated Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$/Pt nanostructures and measured current-induced microwave emission from the structures. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Takahiko Makiuchi , Naoki Kanazawa , Eiji Saitoh

A recently discovered mechanism of electric dipole spin resonance, mediated by the hyperfine interaction, is investigated experimentally and theoretically. The effect is studied using a spin-selective transition in a GaAs double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. A. Laird , C. Barthel , E. I. Rashba , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

Pure spin currents transport angular momentum without an associated charge flow. This unique property makes them attractive for spintronics applications, such as torque induced magnetization control in nanodevices that can be used for…

Nambu-Goldstone theorem provides gapless modes to both relativistic and nonrelativistic systems. The Nambu-Goldstone bosons in insulating magnets are called magnons or spin-waves and play a key role in magnetization transport. We review…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Kouki Nakata , Pascal Simon , Daniel Loss

We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate that nonlinear spin-wave dynamics can induce an effective resonant interaction between non-resonant magnon modes in a yttrium iron garnet disk. Under strong pumping near the ferromagnetic…

Inertial effects in spin dynamics are theoretically predicted to emerge at ultrashort time scales, but their experimental signatures are often ambiguous. Here, we calculate the spin-wave spectrum in ferromagnets and two-sublattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Ritwik Mondal , Levente Rózsa

An electric current flowing in a ferromagnetic metal carries spin angular momentum, i.e. it is spin-polarized. Here, we measure the spin-wave Doppler shift induced by the transfer of angular momentum from the diffusive spin-polarized…

Electron-magnon coupling at the interface between a normal metal and a magnetically ordered insulator modifies the electrical conductivity of the normal metal, an effect known as spin-Hall magnetoresistance. It can also facilitate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Oliver Franke , Duje Akrap , Piet W. Brouwer

Spin dynamics in low dimensional magnetic systems has been of fundamental importance for a long time and has currently received an impetus owing to the emerging field of nanoelectronics. Knowledge of the spin wave lifetimes, in particular,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-19 Akash Chakraborty , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann

In systems with strong spin-orbit coupling, the relationship between spin-transfer torque and the divergence of the spin current is generalized to a relation between spin transfer torques, total angular momentum current, and mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Paul M. Haney , M. D. Stiles

In ferromagnets, magnons may condense into a single quantum state. Analogous to superconductors, this quantum state may support transport without dissipation. Recent works suggest that longitudinal spin transport through a thin-film…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Hans Skarsvåg , Cecilia Holmqvist , Arne Brataas

We use general hydrodynamic equations to determine the long-wavelength spin excitations in isotropic antiferromagnets in the presence of a homogeneous magnetization. The latter may be induced, such as in antiferromagnets in an external…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-07 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

We have investigated the generation of spin waves in the free layer of an extended spin-valve structure with a nano-scaled point contact driven by both microwave and direct electric current using Brillouin light scattering microscopy.…

Nonlinear dynamics govern a wide array of natural phenomena and are essential for understanding nonequilibrium behaviors in condensed matter systems. In magnetically ordered materials, magnons - the quanta of spin waves - exhibit intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-25 David Rohrbach , Zhuquan Zhang , Takayuki Kurihara , Keith A. Nelson

This article reviews static and dynamic interfacial effects in magnetism, focusing on interfacially-driven magnetic effects and phenomena associated with spin-orbit coupling and intrinsic symmetry breaking at interfaces. It provides a…

The spin Seebeck effect is a spin-motive force generated by a temperature gradient in a ferromagnet that can be detected via normal metal contacts through the inverse spin Hall effect [K. Uchida {\it et al.}, Nature {\bf 455}, 778-781…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-07 Jiang Xiao , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

Microwave radiation applied to single-molecule magnets can induce large magnetization changes when the radiation is resonant with transitions between spin levels. These changes are interpreted as due to resonant heating of the sample by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Bal , Jonathan R. Friedman , E. M. Rumberger , S. Shah , D. N. Hendrickson , N. Avraham , Y. Myasoedov , H. Shtrikman , E. Zeldov

Altermagnets, a recently identified class of magnetic materials, possess a spin-split Fermi surface that results in the so-called spin splitter effect, enabling the generation of a spin current transverse to the injection direction and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

We demonstrate a current-controlled, dynamic magnonic crystal. It consists of a ferrite film whose internal magnetic field exhibits a periodic, cosine-like variation. The field modulation is created by a direct current flowing through an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-14 A. V. Chumak , T. Neumann , A. A. Serga , B. Hillebrands , M. P. Kostylev

The Doppler shift of the quasiparticle dispersion by charge currents is responsible for the critical supercurrents in superconductors and instabilities of the magnetic ground state of metallic ferromagnets. Here we predict an analogous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Tao Yu , Chen Wang , Michael A. Sentef , Gerrit E. W. Bauer