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We show that the injection of a pure spin current (not accompanied by charge current) into a ring can induce a circulating charge current in the ring, provided that transport coefficients of the ring are spin-dependent and inhomogeneous. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Soon-Wook Jung , Hyun-Woo Lee

For prospective spintronics devices based on the propagation of pure spin currents, antiferromagnets are an interesting class of materials that potentially entail a number of advantages as compared to ferromagnets. Here, we present a…

The novel electronic state of the canted antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulator, strontium iridate (Sr2IrO4) has been well described by the spin-orbit-entangled isospin Jeff = 1/2, but the role of isospin in transport phenomena remains poorly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-03 Nara Lee , Eunjung Ko , Hwan Young Choi , Yun Jeong Hong , Muhammad Nauman , Woun Kang , Hyoung Joon Choi , Young Jai Choi , Younjung Jo

Spin-transport in superconductors is a subject of fundamental and technical importance with the potential for applications in superconducting-based cryogenic memory and logic. Research in this area is rapidly intensifying with recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 K. Ohnishi , S. Komori , G. Yang , K. -R. Jeon , L. A. B. Olde Olthof , X. Montiel , M. G. Blamire , J. W. A. Robinson

In the past five years, most of the paradigmatic concepts employed in spintronics have been replicated substituting ferromagnets by antiferromagnets in critical parts of the devices. The numerous research efforts directed to manipulate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-19 I. Fina , X. Marti

Selected problems of fundamental importance for spintronics and spin-polarized transport are reviewed, some of them with a special emphasis on their applications in quantum computing and coherent control of quantum dynamics. The role of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Xuedong Hu , Igor Zutic

The main obstacles in realizing diluted magnetic oxide (DMO) in spintronics are the unknown electronic structures associated with its high TC ferromagnetism and spin polarized current and how to manipulate desired electronic structures by…

We discuss the recent progress and the current status of experimental investigations of spin-mediated energy transport in spin-chain and spin-ladder materials with antiferromagnetic coupling. We briefly outline the central results of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Sologubenko , T. Lorenz , H. R. Ott , A. Freimuth

Electrical manipulation of spin-polarized current is highly desirable yet tremendously challenging in developing ultracompact spintronic device technology. Here we propose a scheme to realize the all-electrical manipulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Rui Peng , Jin Yang , Lin Hu , Wee-Liat Ong , Pin Ho , Chit Siong Lau , Junwei Liu , Yee Sin Ang

The field of magnonics, which utilizes propagating spin waves for nano-scale transmission and processing of information, has been significantly advanced by the advent of the spin-orbit torque. The latter phenomenon can allow one to overcome…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 V. E. Demidov , S. Urazhdin , A. Anane , V. Cros , S. O. Demokritov

Coupling between conduction electrons and localized magnetization is responsible for a variety of phenomena in spintronic devices. This coupling enables to generate spin currents from dynamical magnetization. Due to the nonlinearity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Takaharu Tashiro , Saki Matsuura , Akiyo Nomura , Shun Watanabe , Keehoon Kang , Henning Sirringhaus , Kazuya Ando

The spin-Hall effect describes the interconversion of charge currents and spin currents, enabling highly efficient manipulation of magnetization for spintronics. Symmetry conditions generally restrict polarizations of these spin currents to…

Spintronics has attracted wide attention by promising novel functionalities derived from both the electron charge and spin. While branching into new areas and creating new themes over the past years, the principal goals remain the spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-05 C. Ertler , A. Matos-Abiague , M. Gmitra , M. Turek , J. Fabian

We develop a theory for spin transported by coherent Neel dynamics through an antiferromagnetic insulator coupled to a ferromagnetic insulator on one side and a current-carrying normal metal with strong spin-orbit coupling on the other. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 So Takei , Takahiro Moriyama , Teruo Ono , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

One of the actual challenges of spintronics is the realization of a spin-transistor allowing to control spin transport through an electrostatic gate. In this review, we report on different experiments which demonstrate a gate control of…

Spin caloritronics is the science and technology to control spin, charge, and heat currents in magnetic nanostructures. The spin degree of freedom provides new strategies for thermolelectric power generation that have not yet been fully…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Adam B. Cahaya , Oleg A. Tretiakov , G. E. W. Bauer

Spin-driven multiferroics exhibit strong magnetoelectric coupling, with notable polarization changes under a magnetic field, but these effects are usually limited to high-Z magnetic insulators with low electronic polarization. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Ranquan Cao , Ruizhi Dong , Ruixiang Fei , Yugui Yao

Using the non-equilibrium statistical operator method (NSO), we have investigated the spin transport through the interface in a semiconductor/ferromagnetic insulator hybrid structure. We have analyzed the approximation of effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 I. I. Lyapilin , M. S. Okorokov , V. V. Ustinov

An attractive feature of magnetic adatoms and molecules for nanoscale applications is their superparamagnetism, the preferred alignment of their spin along an easy axis preventing undesired spin reversal. The underlying magnetic anisotropy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Maciej Misiorny , Michael Hell , Maarten R. Wegewijs

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