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We performed a finite-temperature quantum Monte Carlo simulation of the one-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg model with nearest-neighbor interaction coupled to Einstein phonons. Our method allows to treat easily up to 100 phonons per site…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Rainer W. Kühne , Ute Löw

We investigate the inverse spin Hall voltage of a 10nm thin Pt strip deposited on the magnetic insulators Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) and NiFe2O4 (NFO) with a temperature gradient in the film plane. We observe characteristics typical of the spin Seebeck…

By measuring the thermoelectric effect in high-mobility quantum wells with two occupied subbands in perpendicular magnetic field, we detect magnetophonon oscillations due to interaction of electrons with acoustic phonons. These oscillations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , O. E. Raichev , A. K. Bakarov

Spin currents are generated within the bulk of magnetic materials due to heat flow, an effect called intrinsic spin-Seebeck. This bulk bosonic spin current consists of a diffusing thermal magnon cloud, parametrized by the magnon chemical…

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 use optical transient-grating spectroscopy to measure spin diffusion of optically oriented electrons in bulk, semi-insulating GaAs(100). Trapping and recombination do not quickly deplete the photoexcited population. The spin diffusion…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-01 C. P. Weber , Craig A. Benko , Stanley C. Hiew

Antiferromagnetic insulators can become active spintronics components by controlling and detecting their dynamics via spin currents in adjacent metals. This cross-talk occurs via spin-transfer and spin-pumping, phenomena that have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Arne Brataas , Hans Skarsvåg , Erlend G. Tveten , Eirik Løhaugen Fjærbu

A high order series expansion is employed to study the thermodynamical properties of a S=1/2 chain coupled to dispersionless phonons. The results are obtained without truncating the phonon subspace since the series expansion is performed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Bühler , Götz S. Uhrig , Jaan Oitmaa

Knowledge of the mean free path distribution of heat-carrying phonons is key to understanding phonon-mediated thermal transport. We demonstrate that thermal conductivity measurements of thin membranes spanning a wide thickness range can be…

Thermal transport acts as a powerful tool for studying the excitations and physical properties of insulators, where a charge gap suppresses electronic conduction. Recently, the thermal Hall effect has been observed across various materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Taekoo Oh

Using a three-current model for heat, spin-up and spin-down electrons, the thermodynamics of irreversible processes predicts that a temperature gradient gives rise to a spin current under the conditions used to measure what is called the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Sylvain D. Brechet , Jean-Philippe Ansermet

Phonon heat transport in mesoscopic systems is investigated using methods analogous to the Landauer description of electrical conductance. A "universal heat conductance" expression that depends on the properties of the conducting pathway…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. E. Angelescu , M. C. Cross , M. L. Roukes

A temperature-dependent approach involving Green-Kubo equilibrium atomic and spin dynamics (GKEASD) is reported to assess phonon and magnon thermal transport processes accounting for phonon-magnon interactions. Using body-center cubic (BCC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yanguang Zhou , Julien Tranchida , Yijun Ge , Jayathi Y. Murthy , Timothy S. Fisher

We theoretically investigate the thermoelectric and spin thermoelectric properties of a T-shaped double quantum dot strongly coupled to two ferromagnetic leads, focusing on transport regime where the system exhibits the two-stage Kondo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Ireneusz Weymann

A theoretical formulation for spin transport through an antiferromagnetic (AF) insulator is presented in the case driven/detected by direct/inverse spin Hall effect in two heavy metal contacts. The spin signal is shown to be transferred by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Gen Tatara , Christian Ortiz Pauyac

We study the effects of spin transfer on thermally activated dynamics of magnetic nanopillars with identical thicknesses of the magnetic layers. The symmetric nanopillars exhibit anomalous dependencies of switching statistics on magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Weng L. Lim , Nicholas Anthony , Andrew Higgins , Sergei Urazhdin

We theoretically propose a nonreciprocal spin Seebeck effect, i.e., nonreciprocal spin transport generated by a temperature gradient, in antiferromagnetic insulators with broken inversion symmetry. We find that nonreciprocity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-16 Rina Takashima , Yuki Shiomi , Yukitoshi Motome

This review provides a comprehensive study of the nonlinear transport properties of magnons, which are electrically emitted or absorbed inside extended YIG films by spin transfer effects via a YIG$\vert$Pt interface. Our purpose is to…

It is known that electron scattering by surface polar phonons (SPPs) of the substrate reduces their mobility in supported graphene. However, there is no experimental evidence for contribution of drag of electrons by SPP to thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 S. V. Koniakhin , A. V. Nalitov

The spin Seebeck effect has recently been demonstrated as a viable method of direct energy conversion that has potential to outperform energy conversion from the conventional Seebeck effect. In this study, a computational transport model is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Anveeksh Koneru , Terence D. Musho
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