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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

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

We theoretically investigate spin transport at the interface between the ferromagnetic insulator(FI) and a superconductor(SC). Considering a simple FI-SC interface model, we derive formulas for the spin current and spin-current noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 T. Kato , Y. Ohnuma , M. Matsuo , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

A theoretical proposal for realizing and detecting spin supercurrent in an isotropic antiferromagnetic insulator is reported. Superfluid spin transport is achieved by inserting the antiferromagnet between two metallic reservoirs and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 So Takei , Bertrand I. Halperin , Amir Yacoby , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

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 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…

We investigate the spin injection and the spin transport in paramagnetic insulators described by simple Heisenberg interactions using auxiliary particle methods. Some of these methods allow access to both paramagnetic states above magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-23 Satoshi Okamoto

The influence of an asymmetric in-plane magnetic anisotropy on the thermally activated spin current is studied theoretically for two different systems; (i) the system consisting of a ferromagnetic insulator in a direct contact with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , S. R. Etesami , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

In the spin energy excitation mode of normal metals and superconductors, spin up and down electrons (or quasiparticles) carry different heat currents. This mode occurs only when spin up and down energy distribution functions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 M. Kuzmanović , B. Y. Wu , M. Weideneder , C. H. L. Quay , M. Aprili

The angular dependence of the thermal transport in insulating or conducting ferromagnets is derived on the basis of the Onsager reciprocity relations applied to a magnetic system. It is shown that the angular dependence of the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. -E. Wegrowe , H. -J. Drouhin , D. Lacour

We derive the Onsager response matrix of fluctuation-mediated spin-collinear transport through a ferromagnetic insulator and normal metal interface driven by a temperature difference, spin accumulation, or magnetic field. We predict…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-14 Jiang Xiao , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Spintronics in ferromagnetic metals is built on a complementary set of phenomena in which magnetic configurations influence transport coefficients and transport currents alter magnetic configurations. In this Letter we propose that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Nunez , R. A. Duine , A. H. MacDonald

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

In spin caloritronics, a branch of spintronics, the spin degree of freedom is exploited for thermoelectric conversion and thermal transport. Since the inception of spin caloritronics, many experimental and theoretical studies have focused…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-04 Ken-ichi Uchida , Ryo Iguchi

Spin-transfer is a typical spintronics effect that allows a ferromagnetic layer to be switched by spin-injection. Most of the experimental results about spin transfer are described on the basis of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 J. -E. Wegrowe , C. Ciornei , H. -J. Drouhin

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

Insulating antiferromagnets are anticipated as the main protagonists of ultrafast spintronics, with their intrinsic terahertz dynamics and their abililty to transport spin information over long distances. However, direct transfer of spin…

We study the coupled magnon energy transport and collective magnetization dynamics in ferromagnets with magnetic textures. By constructing a phenomenological theory based on irreversible thermodynamics, we describe motion of domain walls by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-20 Alexey A. Kovalev , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We consider an antiferromagnetic insulator that is in contact with a metal. Spin accumulation in the metal can induce spin-transfer torques on the staggered field and on the magnetization in the antiferromagnet. These torques relate to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Sverre A. Gulbrandsen , Arne Brataas