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We study the Nernst effect and the spin Nernst effect, that a longitudinal thermal gradient induces a transverse voltage and a spin current. A mesoscopic four-terminal cross-bar device having the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shu-guang Cheng , Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We propose a new type of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) emerging from the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in asymmetric four-terminal electron systems. This system generates spin currents or spin voltages along the longitudinal direction parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Jun Zhou , Biao Wang , Mengjie Li , Tsuneyoshi Nakayama , Baowen Li

We study nonequilibrium generation of spin-dependent transport through a single-level quantum dot embedded in a ring with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We consider nonmagnetic systems, involving no magnetic field nor ferromagnetic leads.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-23 Nobuhiko Taniguchi , Kenta Isozaki

We report two non-degenerate magnon modes with opposite spins or chiralities in collinearly antiferromagnetic insulators driven by symmetry-governed anisotropic exchange couplings. The consequent giant spin splitting contributes to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Qirui Cui , Bowen Zeng , Tao Yu , Hongxin Yang , Ping Cui

The thermoelectric power, including the Nernst and Seebeck effects, in graphene nanoribbon is studied. By using the non-equilibrium Green function combining with the tight-binding Hamiltonian, the Nernst and Seebeck coefficients are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

The spin Nernst effect describes a transverse spin current induced by the longitudinal thermal gradient in a system with the spin-orbit coupling. Here we study the spin Nernst effect in a mesoscopic four-terminal cross-bar Weyl semimetal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Ning-Xuan Yang , Yan-Feng Zhou , Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

Recently, Seebeck coefficients of ferromagnetic conductors are found to be spin-dependent. However straightforward method of accurately determining its spin polarization is still to be developed. Here, we have derived a linear dependence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-29 C. Fang , C. H. Wan , Z. H. Yuan , H. Wu , Q. T. Zhang , L. B. Mo , X. Zhang , X. F. Han

The spin Nernst effect is a phenomenon in which the spin current flows perpendicular to a temperature gradient. Similar to the spin Hall effect, this phenomenon also causes spin accumulation at the boundaries. Here, we study the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Atsuo Shitade

Altermagnet is a distinctive magnet phase, which has spin-split energy band but with zero net magnetic moment. In this paper, we propose that altermagnet behaves spin splitting Nernst effect: Under a longitudinal temperature gradient, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Xing-Jian Yi , Yue Mao , Xiancong Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

We investigate the electron transport through a two-dimensional semiconductor with a nonuniform Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Due to the combination of the coherence effect and the Rashba interaction, a spontaneous spin-polarized current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The spin Nernst effect, an antisymmetric response of a spin current to a temperature gradient, has attracted attention as spin transport phenomenon arising from the topologically nontrivial band structure of carriers. This effect can occur…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Shinnosuke Koyama , Joji Nasu

Using the Matsubara Green function formalism we calculate the temperature dependence of spin Hall and spin Nernst conductivities of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the linear response regime. In the case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 A. Dyrdał , J. Barnaś , V. K. Dugaev

A novel spin filtering in two-dimensional electron system with nonuniform spin-orbit interactions (SOI) is theoretically studied. The strength of SOI is modulated perpendicular to the charge current. A spatial gradient of effective magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jun-ichiro Ohe , Masayuki Yamamoto , Tomi Ohtsuki , Junsaku Nitta

Rashba effect describes how electrons moving in an electric field experience a momentum dependent magnetic field that couples to the electron angular momentum (spin). This physical phenomenon permits the generation of spin polarization from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Florent Auvray , Jorge Puebla , Mingran Xu , Bivas Rana , Daisuke Hashizume , Yoshichika Otani

We develop a simple theory for the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in n-doped InSb in an external magnetic field. We consider spin-$1/2$ electrons in the conduction band of InSb with a temperature gradient parallel to the applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. A. Pike , D. Stroud

We develop a low-temperature, long-wavelength theory for the interfacial spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in easy-axis antiferromagnets. The field-induced spin-flop (SF) transition of N\'eel order is associated with a qualitative change in SSE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Derek Reitz , Junxue Li , Wei Yuan , Jing Shi , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We theoretically investigate the spin-dependent Seebeck effect in an Aharonov-Bohm mesoscopic ring in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions under magnetic flux perpendicular to the ring. We apply the Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Bin Liu , Yunyun Li , Jun Zhou , Tsuneyoshi Nakayama , Baowen Li

We study the spin transport theoretically in heterostructures consisting of a ferromagnetic metallic thin film sandwiched between heavy-metal and oxide layers. The spin current in the heavy metal layer is generated via the spin Hall effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , X. -G. Wang , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

We investigate thermoelectric properties of a ferromagnet-superconductor hybrid structure with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and delta function potential barrier at the interfacial layer. The exponential rise of thermal conductance with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha , A. M. Jayannavar

We consider a spin-orbit-coupled two-dimensional electron system under the influence of a thermal gradient externally applied to two attached reservoirs. We discuss the generated voltage bias (charge Seebeck effect), spin bias (spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 M. I. Alomar , Llorenç Serra , David Sanchez
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