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We performed temperature-dependent optical pump - THz emission measurements in Y3Fe5O12 (YIG)|Pt from 5 K to room temperature in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field. We study the temperature dependence of the spin Seebeck…

We experimentally study the transient voltage response of yttrium iron garnet/platinum bilayer samples subject to periodic heating up to gigahertz frequencies. We observe an intrinsic cutoff frequency of the induced thermopower voltage,…

Understanding the transfer of spin angular momentum is essential in modern magnetism research. A model case is the generation of magnons in magnetic insulators by heating an adjacent metal film. Here, we reveal the initial steps of this…

The spin Seebeck effect is a spin-motive force generated by a temperature gradient in a ferromagnet that can be detected via normal metal contacts through the inverse spin Hall effect [K. Uchida {\it et al.}, Nature {\bf 455}, 778-781…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-07 Jiang Xiao , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

We investigate the generation of magnonic thermal spin currents and their mode selective spin transport across interfaces in insulating, compensated ferrimagnet/normal metal bilayer systems. The spin Seebeck effect signal exhibits a…

The propagation of magnons in temperature gradients is investigated within the framework of an atomistic spin model with the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation as underlying equation of motion. We analyze the magnon accumulation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-17 Ulrike Ritzmann , Denise Hinzke , Ulrich Nowak

We investigate both theoretically and experimentally a gigantic enhancement of the spin Seebeck effect in a prototypical magnet LaY$_2$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ at low temperatures. Our theoretical analysis sheds light on the important role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hiroto Adachi , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

Following the theoretical approach by Xiao et al [Phys. Rev. B 81, 214418 (2010)] to the spin Seebeck effect, we calculate the mean value of the total spin current flowing through a normalmetal/ ferromagnet interface. The spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , S. Trimper , J. Berakdar

By applying a variational principle on a magnetic system within the framework of extended irreversible thermodynamics, we find that the presence of a temperature gradient in a ferromagnet leads to a generalisation of the Landau-Lifshitz…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-12 Sylvain D. Brechet , Jean-Philippe Ansermet

Spin currents are generated within the bulk of magnetic materials due to heat flow, an effect called intrinsic spin-Seebeck. This bulk bosonic spin current consists of a diffusing thermal magnon cloud, parametrized by the magnon chemical…

Sharp structures in magnetic field-dependent spin Seebeck effect (SSE) voltages of Pt/Y$_{3}$Fe$_{5}$O$_{12}$ (YIG) at low temperatures are attributed to the magnon-phonon interaction. Experimental results are well reproduced by a Boltzmann…

The spin Seebeck effect refers to the generation of a spin voltage caused by a temperature gradient in a ferromagnet, which enables the thermal injection of spin currents from the ferromagnet into an attached nonmagnetic metal over a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hiroto Adachi , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

Spintronic, spin caloritronic, and magnonic phenomena arise from complex interactions between charge, spin, and structural degrees of freedom that are challenging to model and even more difficult to predict. This situation is compounded by…

We study the problem of magnetization and heat currents and their associated thermodynamic forces in a magnetic system by focusing on the magnetization transport in ferromagnetic insulators like YIG. The resulting theory is applied to the…

We develop a Boltzmann transport theory of coupled magnon-phonon transport in ferromagnetic insulators. The explicit treatment of the magnon-phonon coupling within the Boltzmann approach allows us to calculate the low-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Rico Schmidt , Francis Wilken , Tamara S. Nunner , Piet W. Brouwer

We report the nonlocal spin Seebeck effect (nlSSE) in a lateral configuration of Pt/Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$(YIG)/Pt systems as a function of the magnetic field $B$ (up to 10 T) at various temperatures $T$ (3 K < $T$ < 300 K). The nlSSE voltage…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-28 Koichi Oyanagi , Takashi Kikkawa , Eiji Saitoh

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…

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

Thermoelectric phenomena in magnetic materials present tantalizing possibilities for manipulating spin-information using heat in future 'spin caloritronic' devices. Key to unraveling their underlying physics is to understand spin-lattice…

Just as electronic shot noise in driven conductors results from the granularity of charge and the statistical variation in the arrival times of charge carriers, there are predictions for fundamental noise in magnon currents due to angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Renjie Luo , Xuanhan Zhao , Tanner J. Legvold , Liyang Chen , Changjiang Liu , Deshun Hong , Anand Bhattacharya , Douglas Natelson