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Spin Seebeck effect refers to the magnonic thermal spin injection from a magnet into the adjacent heavy metal. A ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is the material most studied for the spin Seebeck effect. Here, to account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Hayato Fukushima , Masanori Ichioka , Hiroto Adachi

Several experimental efforts such as material investigation and structure improvement have been made recently to find a large anomalous Nernst effect in ferromagnetic metals. Here, we develop a theory of spin transport driven by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Tomohiro Taniguchi

The occurrence of inhomogeneous spin-density distribution in multilayered ferromagnetic diluted magnetic semiconductor nanostructures leads to strong dependence of the spin-polarized transport properties on these systems. The spin-dependent…

We have theoretically studied phonon-mediated spin-flip processes of electrons in a GaAs double quantum dot (DQD) holding two spins, under a phonon temperature gradient over the DQD. Transition rates of inter-dot phonon-assisted tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Kazuyuki Kuroyama , Sadashige Matsuo , Seigo Tarucha , Yasuhiro Tokura

We study theoretically the non-equilibrium exciton transport in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. We consider the situation where excitons interact with non-equilibrium phonons, e.g., under the conditions of localized excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 M. M. Glazov

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

Using the Bogoliubov de-Gennes formalism, we investigate the charge and spin-dependent thermoelectric effects in superconductor graphene junctions. Results demonstrate that despite normal-superconductor junctions, there is a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-08 Razieh Beiranvand , Hossein Hamzehpour

In recent years, the fundamental physics of spin-thermal (i.e., magnon-phonon) interaction has attracted significant experimental and theoretical interests given its potential paradigm-shifting impacts in areas like spin-thermoelectrics,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Xufei Wu , Zeyu Liu , Tengfei Luo

We develop a theory of spin-dependent phenomena in the streaming regime characterized by ballistic acceleration of electrons in the moderate electric field until they achieve the optical phonon energy and abruptly emit the phonons. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 L. E. Golub , E. L. Ivchenko

The rising field of spin caloritronics focuses on the interactions between spin and heat currents in a magnetic material; the observation of the spin Seebeck effect opened the route to this branch of research. This paper reports the results…

In this Letter, we present the results of transient thermopower experiments, performed at room temperature on yttrium iron garnet/platinum bilayers. Upon application of a time-varying thermal gradient, we observe a characteristic low-pass…

Electrically injected and detected nonlocal magnon transport has emerged as a versatile method for transporting spin as well as probing the spin excitations in a magnetic insulator. We examine the role of drift currents in this phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Sebastián de-la-Peña , Richard Schlitz , Saül Vélez , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Akashdeep Kamra

Spin Seebeck effect (SSE) holds promise for new spintronic devices with low-energy consumption. The underlying physics, essential for a further progress, is yet to be fully clarified. This study of the time resolved longitudinal SSE in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 S. R. Etesami , L. Chotorlishvili , J. Berakdar

We present a study of the transport properties of thermally generated spin currents in an insulating ferrimagnetic-antiferromagnetic-ferrimagnetic trilayer over a wide range of temperature. Spin currents generated by the spin Seebeck effect…

Thermally-driven spin-transfer torques have recently been reported in electrically insulating ferromagnet$|$normal-metal heterostructures. In this paper, we propose two physically distinct mechanisms for such torques. The first is a local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Scott A. Bender , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

A diversity of spin Hall effects in metallic systems is known to rely on Mott skew scattering. In this work its high-temperature counterpart, phonon skew scattering, which is expected to be of foremost experimental relevance, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Cosimo Gorini , Ulrich Eckern , Roberto Raimondi

A temperature gradient applied to a ferromagnetic metal induces not only independent flows of electrons and magnons but also drag currents because of their mutual interaction. In this paper, we present a microscopic study of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Terufumi Yamaguchi , Hiroshi Kohno , Rembert A. Duine

The longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) in Pt/Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (YIG) junction systems has been investigated at various magnetic fields and temperatures. We found that the LSSE voltage in a Pt/YIG-slab system is suppressed by applying…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-19 Takashi Kikkawa , Ken-ichi Uchida , Shunsuke Daimon , Zhiyong Qiu , Yuki Shiomi , Eiji Saitoh

We fabricate a vertical spin metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (spin-MOSFET) structure, which is composed of an epitaxial single-crystal heterostructure with a ferromagnetic-semiconductor GaMnAs source/drain, and investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Toshiki Kanaki , Hirokatsu Asahara , Shinobu Ohya , Masaaki Tanaka

We present a unified quantum field theory for Dirac magnons coupled to emergent gauge fields. At zero temperature, any space- and time-dependent gauge perturbation drives magnons out of equilibrium, generating spin currents and magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Luis Fernández , Ka Shen , Leandro O. Nascimento , Van Sérgio Alves , Roberto E. Troncoso , Nicolas Vidal-Silva