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We investigated the effect of an external magnetic field on the diffusive spin transport by magnons in the magnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG), using a non-local magnon transport measurement geometry. We observed a decrease in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 L. J. Cornelissen , B. J. van Wees

The abilities to inject and detect spin carriers are fundamental for research on transport and manipulation of spin information. Pure electronic spin currents have been recently studied in nanoscale electronic devices using a non-local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 I. J. Vera-Marun , V. Ranjan , B. J. van Wees

We have investigated the influence of the interface quality on the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) of the bilayer system yttrium iron garnet (YIG) - platinum (Pt). The magnitude and shape of the SSE is strongly influenced by mechanical treatment…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-25 Aisha Aqeel , Ivan J. Vera-Marun , Bart J. van Wees , Thomas T. M. Palstra

The acute magnetic proximity effects in Pt/YIG compromise the suitability of Pt as a spin current detector. We show that Au/YIG, with no anomalous Hall effect and a negligible magnetoresistance, allows the measurements of the intrinsic spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-02 D. Qu , S. Y. Huang , Jun Hu , Ruqian Wu , C. L. Chien

We study the spin Hall effect of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a magnetic field and both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. We show that the value of the spin Hall conductivity, which is finite only if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Lucignano , R. Raimondi , A. Tagliacozzo

The longitudinal spin Seebeck effect refers to the generation of a spin current when heat flows across a normal metal/magnetic insulator interface. Until recently, most explanations of the spin Seebeck effect use the interfacial temperature…

Spin Hall effects are a collection of phenomena, resulting from spin-orbit coupling, in which an electrical current flowing through a sample can lead to spin transport in a perpendicular direction and spin accumulation at lateral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

In this work, we study the conductance and the thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot embedded between two metallic leads with a side-coupled triple quantum dot molecule under a magnetic field. We focus on the spin polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 J. P. Ramos-Andrade , F. J. Peña , A. González , O. Ávalos-Ovando , P. A. Orellana

Magnetic insulators are promising materials for the development of energy-efficient spintronics. Unlike metallic counterparts, the magnetic insulators are characterized by imaginary part of the interfacial spin mixing conductance as well in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Kuntal Roy

We study the nonequilibrium Seebeck spin transport across metal-magnetic insulator interfaces. The conjugate-converted thermal-spin transport is assisted by the exchange interaction at the interface, between conduction electrons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Jie Ren

Iridium is a very promising material for spintronic applications due to its interesting magnetic properties such as large RKKY exchange coupling as well as its large spin-orbit coupling value. Ir is for instance used as a spacer layer for…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-02 T. Fache , J. C. Rojas-Sánchez , L. Badie , S. Mangin , S. Petit-Watelot

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

We experimentally investigate and quantitatively analyze the spin Hall magnetoresistance effect in ferromagnetic insulator/platinum and ferromagnetic insulator/nonferromagnetic metal/platinum hybrid structures. For the ferromagnetic…

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) is observed in magnetic insulator|heavy metal bilayers as an inverse spin Hall effect voltage under a temperature gradient. The SSE can be detected nonlocally as well, viz. in terms of the voltage in a second…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 L. J. Cornelissen , K. Oyanagi , T. Kikkawa , Z. Qiu , T. Kuschel , G. E. W. Bauer , B. J. van Wees , E. Saitoh

We study inverse spin and orbital Hall effects in 19 transition metals using spin-pumping driven by ferromagnetic resonance. Spin-to-charge conversion was measured in YIG/X(5), while orbital-to-charge conversion was probed in YIG/Pt(2)/X(5)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 J. L. Costa , E. Santos , J. B. S. Mendes , A. Azevedo

The spin-Seebeck effect (SSE) in platinum (Pt) and tantalum (Ta) on yttrium iron garnet (YIG) has been investigated by both externally heating the sample (using an on-chip Pt heater on top of the device) as well as by current-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 N. Vlietstra , M. Isasa , J. Shan , J. Ben Youssef , F. Casanova , B. J. van Wees

We develop a theory of the spin battery effect in superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator (SC/FI) systems taking into account the magnetic proximity effect. We demonstrate that the spin-energy mixing enabled by the superconductivity leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Risto Ojajärvi , Tero T. Heikkilä , P. Virtanen , M. A. Silaev

We report that due to the orbital Hall effect, orbital pumping effects can occur in materials with weak spin-orbit coupling. Moreover, there is a positive correlation between the strength of the orbital Hall effect and the size of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Yuejie Zhang , Jinjun Ding , Tao Liu , Xiaofei Yang , Taoyuan Ouyang , Shi Chen , Yongqing Peng

Magnetic monopoles, elusive in high-energy physics, have been realised as emergent quasiparticles in solid-state systems, where their unique properties hold promise for novel spintronic applications. Magnetic monopoles have been invoked in…

We present the theory of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect between a Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain and a conductor. The effect consists of the generation of a spin current across the spin chain-conductor interface in response to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Ren-Bo Wang , Naveen Nishad , Anna Keselman , Leon Balents , Oleg A. Starykh