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A class of antiferromagnets with spin-polarized electron bands, yet zero net magnetization, called altermagnets is attracting increasing attention due to their potential use in spintronics. Here, we study spin injection into an altermagnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Chi Sun , Jacob Linder

We predict that the magnetization direction of a ferromagnet can be reversed by the spin-transfer torque accompanying spin-polarized thermoelectric heat currents. We illustrate the concept by applying a finite-element theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Moosa Hatami , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Qinfang Zhang , Paul J. Kelly

Motivated by recent experiments on spin pumping from a ferromagnet into organic materials in which the charge transport is due to hopping, we study theoretically the generation and propagation of spin current in a hopping insulator. Unlike…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Z. Yue , D. A. Pesin , M. E. Raikh

We study thermodynamic properties of the one-dimensional Heisenberg ferrimagnet with antiferromagnetically exchange-coupled two kinds of spins 1 and 1/2. The specific heat and the magnetic susceptibility are calculated employing a modified…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Shoji Yamamoto , Takahiro Fukui

Antiferromagnetism couples electron spin to its orbital motion, thus allowing excitation of electron-spin transitions by an ac electric rather than magnetic field - with absorption, exceeding that of common electron spin resonance at least…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-08 Revaz Ramazashvili

An electric current from a ferromagnet into a non-magnetic material can induce a spin-dependent electron temperature. Here it is shown that this spin heat accumulation, when created by tunneling from a ferromagnet, produces a non-negligible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees , R. Jansen

Dynamical magnets can pump spin currents into superconductors. To understand such a phenomenon, we develop a method utilizing the generalized Usadel equation to describe time-dependent situations in superconductors in contact with dynamical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-13 Haakon T. Simensen , Lina G. Johnsen , Jacob Linder , Arne Brataas

This article reviews the principles that govern the combined transport of spin, heat, and charge. The extensive thermodynamic quantity associated with spin transport is the magnetization; its Onsager-conjugate force is in general the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Joseph P. Heremans

We consider spin-polarized transport in a quantum spin Hall antidot system coupled to normal leads. Due to the helical nature of the conducting edge states, the screening potential at the dot region becomes spin dependent without external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , Minchul Lee , David Sanchez

In spite of the absence of a macroscopic magnetic moment, an anti-ferromagnet is spin-polarized on an atomic scale. The electric current passing through a conducting anti-ferromagnet is polarized as well, leading to spin-transfer torques…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 Yuan Xu , Shuai Wang , Ke Xia

Currents can induce spin excitations in antiferromagnets, even when they are insulating. We investigate how spin transfer can cause antiferromagnetic resonance in bilayers and trilayers that consist of one antiferromagnetic insulator and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Øyvind Johansen , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas

Thermoelectric generation is an essential function of future energy-saving technologies. However, this generation has been an exclusive feature of electric conductors, a situation which inflicts a heavy toll on its application; a conduction…

Antiferromagnetic transition metal oxides are an established and widely studied materials system in the context of spin-based electronics, commonly used as passive elements in exchange bias-based memory devices. Currently, major interest…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-24 H. Meer , O. Gomonay , A. Wittmann , M. Kläui

Antiferromagnet materials have recently gained renewed interest due to their possible use in spintronics technologies, where spin transport is the foundation of their functionalities. In that respect metallic antiferromagnets are of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-11 Saima A. Siddiqui , Joseph Sklenar , Kisung Kang , Matthew J. Gilbert , André Schleife , Nadya Mason , Axel Hoffmann

Thermal conductivity, a fundamental parameter characterizing thermal transport in solids, is typically determined by electron and phonon transport. Although other transport properties including electrical conductivity and thermoelectric…

Spin caloritronics studies the interplay between charge-, heat- and spin-currents, which are initiated by temperature gradients in magnetic nanostructures. A plethora of new phenomena has been discovered that promises, e.g., to make wasted…

We study a bilayer structure consisting of an antiferromagnetic insulator and a normal metal. An electron current is driven in the normal metal with direction parallel to the interface between the materials. Due to interfacial exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Eirik Erlandsen , Asle Sudbø

Recent work on layered structures of superconductors (S) or normal metals (N) in contact with ferromagnetic insulators (FI) has shown how the properties of the previous can be strongly affected by the magnetic proximity effect due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Subrata Chakraborty , Tero T. Heikkilä

We investigate spin transport through metallic antiferromagnets using measurements based on spin pumping combined with inverse spin Hall effects in Ni80Fe20/FeMn/W trilayers. The relatively large magnitude and opposite sign of spin Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-10 H. Saglam , W. Zhang , M. B. Jungfleisch , J. Sklenar , J. E. Pearson , J. B. Ketterson , A. Hoffmann

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