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Superconductor-ferromagnet tunnel junctions demonstrate giant thermoelectric effects which are being exploited to engineer ultra-sensitive terahertz radiation detectors. Here, we experimentally observe the recently predicted complete…

The nonlinear Seebeck effect, nonlinear conversion of a temperature gradient into an electric current, was observed at room temperature. Based on a second-harmonic lock-in method combined with an a.c. temperature gradient, $\nabla T$, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-08 Y. Hirata , T. Kikkawa , H. Arisawa , E. Saitoh

We study the phenomenon of spin-current rectification in a one-dimensional XXZ spin chain in the presence of a thermal drive. In our model a pure spin current is generated by a temperature difference between two harmonic heat baths which in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Juzar Thingna , Jian-Sheng Wang

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

Longitudinal spin Seebeck effect has been investigated for an uniaxial antiferromagnetic insulator Cr2O3, characterized by a spin-flop transition under magnetic field along the c-axis. We have found that temperature gradient applied normal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-06 S. Seki , T. Ideue , M. Kubota , Y. Kozuka , R. Takagi , M. Nakamura , Y. Kaneko , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

We develop a simple theory for the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in n-doped InSb in an external magnetic field. We consider spin-$1/2$ electrons in the conduction band of InSb with a temperature gradient parallel to the applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. A. Pike , D. Stroud

We experimentally investigate magnetoresistance of a single GeTe-Ni junction between the $\alpha$-GeTe topological semimetal and thick nickel film at room and liquid helium temperatures. For the magnetic field parallel to the junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 A. A. Avakyants , V. D. Esin , D. Yu. Kazmin , N. N. Orlova , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in ferrimagnetic insulators (FMI) provides a simple method of using heat to manipulate magnons, which could be used as carriers of information and energy conversion. However, a theory that can quantitively…

The origin of the suppression of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect by applied magnetic fields is studied. We perform numerical simulations of the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation of motion for an atomistic spin model and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-16 Ulrike Ritzmann , Denise Hinzke , Andreas Kehlberger , Er-Jia Guo , Mathias Kläui , Ulrich Nowak

We have studied the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in a polar antiferromagnet $\alpha$-Cu$_{2}$V$_{2}$O$_{7}$ in contact with a Pt film. Below the antiferromagnetic transition temperature of $\alpha$-Cu$_{2}$V$_{2}$O$_{7}$, spin Seebeck…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-06 Y. Shiomi , R. Takashima , D. Okuyama , G. Gitgeatpong , P. Piyawongwatthana , K. Matan , T. J. Sato , E. Saitoh

In this paper we employ non equilibrium thermodynamics of fluxes and forces to describe magnetization and heat transport. By the theory we are able to identify the thermodynamic driving force of the magnetization current as the gradient of…

We evaluated the thermoelectric properties of longitudinal spin Seebeck devices by using ten different transition metals (TMs). Both the intensity and sign of spin Seebeck coefficients were noticeably dependent on the degree of the inverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-14 M. Ishida , A. Kirihara , H. Someya , K. Uchida , S. Kohmoto , E. Saitoh , T. Murakami

We show that graphene with Mn adatoms trapped at single vacancies feature spin-dependent Seebeck effect, thus enabling the use of this material for spin caloritronics. A gate potential can be used to tune its thermoelectric properties in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Alberto Torres , Matheus P. Lima , A. Fazzio , Antônio J. R. da Silva

Thermoelectric effects have been applied to power generators and temperature sensors that convert waste heat into electricity. The effects, however, have been limited to electrons to occur, and inevitably disappear at low temperatures due…

We theoretically explore the generation of spin current driven by a temperature gradient in a junction between a chiral insulator and a normal metal. Based on the gyromagnetic response induced by microscopic acoustic-phonon-mediated lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Naoki Nishimura , Takumi Funato , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

We report the observation of magnon spin currents generated by the Spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in a bulk single crystal of the easy-plane antiferromagnet NiO. A magnetic field induces a non-degeneracy and thereby an imbalance in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Geert R. Hoogeboom , Bart J. van Wees

We investigate coupled spin and heat transport in easy-plane magnetic insulators. These materials display a continuous phase transition between normal and condensate states that is controlled by an external magnetic field. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 B. Flebus , S. A. Bender , Y. Tserkovnyak , R. A. Duine

We present measurements of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) by a technique that combines alternating currents (AC) and direct currents (DC). The method is applied to a ferrimagnetic insulator/heavy metal bilayer, Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$(YIG)/Pt.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yizhang Chen , Debangsu Roy , Egecan Cogulu , Houchen Chang , Mingzhong Wu , Andrew D. Kent

By an exact analytical approach we study the magnetothermal transport in the spin-1/2 easy-axis Heisenberg model, in particular the thermal conductivity and spin Seebeck effect as a function of anisotropy, magnetic field and temperature. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-05 X. Zotos

Our joint theoretical and computer experimental study of heat-to-spin conversion reveals that noncollinear antiferromagnetic insulators are promising materials for generating magnon spin currents upon application of a temperature gradient:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Alexander Mook , Robin R. Neumann , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig