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We calculate the phonon, electron and magnon temperature profiles in yttrium iron garnet/platinum bilayers by diffusive theory with appropriate boundary conditions, in particular taking into account interfacial thermal resistances. Our…

We employ the Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch (LLB) equation to investigate current-induced domain wall motion at finite temperatures by numerical micromagnetic simulations. We extend the LLB equation with spin torque terms that account for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 C. Schieback , D. Hinzke , M. Klaui , U. Nowak , P. Nielaba

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 magnetic spin Hall effect is a time-reversal-odd phenomenon in which spin current is induced by the charge current. In the presence of a spin-orbit coupling and/or noncolinear magnetism, however, spin current is not uniquely defined.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Atsuo Shitade

The temperature dependence of spin currents in insulators at the finite temperature near zero Kelvin is theoretically studied. The spin currents are carried by Jordan-Wigner fermions and magnons in one- and three- dimensional insulators.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Kouki Nakata

The magnonic spin Seebeck effect is a key element of spin caloritronic, a field that exploits thermal effects for spintronic applications. Early studies were focused on investigating the steady-state nonequilibrium magnonic spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , X. -G. Wang , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnaś , J. Berakdar

We present a theory of the spin Seebeck effect driven by subthermal non-local phonon heat transfer and spectral non-uniform temperature distribution. The theory explains the non-local behavior of the effect arising from the fact that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 K. S. Tikhonov , J. Sinova , A. M. Finkel'stein

The spin-Seebeck effect was recently discovered in a metallic ferromagnet and consists of a thermally generated spin distribution that is electrically measured utilizing the inverse spin Hall effect. Here this effect is reproduced…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-27 C. M. Jaworski , J. Yang , S. Mack , D. D. Awschalom , J. P. Heremans , R. C. Myers

In this work, we theoretically investigate the spin-Peltier effect in a heterostructure composed of graphene and a ferromagnetic insulator (FI). Using a microscopic formalism based on the characteristic spin-flip scattering length at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Xin Theng Lee , Xin Hu , Yuya Ominato , Masahiro Tatsuno , Takeo Kato , Mamoru Matsuo

Spin Seebeck effect (SSE), the generation of spin current from heat, has been extensively studied in a large variety of magnetic materials, including ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, paramagnets, and quantum spin liquids. In this paper, we…

The spin diffusion length for thermally excited magnon spins is measured by utilizing a non-local spin-Seebeck effect measurement. In a bulk single crystal of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) a focused laser thermally excites magnon spins. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-15 Brandon L. Giles , Zihao Yang , John Jamison , Roberto C. Myers

Current-driven magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic metals are studied in a self-consistent adiabatic local-density approximation in the presence of spin-conserving and spin-dephasing impurity scattering. Based on a quantum kinetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Hans Joakim Skadsem , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We study the temperature dependence of the longitudinal spin-Seebeck effect (LSSE) in a yttrium iron garnet Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) / Pt system for samples of different thicknesses. In this system, the thermal spin torque is magnon-driven. The LSSE…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 Hyungyu Jin , Stephen R. Boona , Zihao Yang , Roberto C. Myers , Joseph P. Heremans

We investigate thermoelectric effects in quantum well systems. Using the scattering approach for coherent conductors, we calculate the thermocurrent and thermopower both in the spin-degenerate case and in the presence of giant Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Javier H. Nicolau , David Sanchez

We observe amplification of spin-wave packets propagating along a film of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) subject to a transverse temperature gradient. The amplification is attributed to a spin-transfer thermal torque created by spin currents…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-14 E. Padrón-Hernández , A. Azevedo , S. M. Rezende

We propose a new drag phenomenon, an interband magnon drag, and report on interaction effects and multiband effects in magnon transport of ferrimagnetic insulators. We study a spin-Seebeck coefficient $S_{\textrm{m}}$, a magnon conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Naoya Arakawa

Here we report on measurements of the spin-Seebeck effect of GaMnAs over an extended temperature range alongside the thermal conductivity, specific heat, magnetization, and thermoelectric power. The amplitude of the spin-Seebeck effect in…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 C. M. Jaworski , J. Yang , S. Mack , D. D. Awschalom , R. C. Myers , J. P. Heremans

The interpretation of some recent measurements of spin-dependent voltage for which the electric conduction does not play a role rises some new fundamental questions about the effects of spin-dependent heat currents. A two spin-channel model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-16 J. -E. Wegrowe , H. -J. Drouhin , D. Lacour

Compensated ferrimagnets enable ferromagnet-like spin transport without net magnetization. We study the spin Seebeck effect in a compensated ferrimagnet/normal-metal junction using a four-sublattice model in which sublattice inequivalence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Xin Theng Lee , Takahiro Misawa , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

We investigate the spin-dependent thermoelectric effect of graphene flakes with magnetic edges in the ballistic regime. Employing static, respectively, dynamic mean-field theory we first show that magnetism appears at the zigzag edges for a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-03 Thi Thu Phùng , Robert Peters , Andreas Honecker , Guy Trambly de Laissardière , Javad Vahedi