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We present a time-dependent diffusion theory for heat and polarization transport in a planar ferroelectric capacitor with parameters derived from a one-dimensional phonon model. We predict steady-state Seebeck and transient Peltier effects.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Ryo Iguchi , amd Ken-ichi Uchida

Spin transport of magnonic excitations in uniaxial insulating antiferromagnets (AFs) is investigated. In linear response to spin biasing and a temperature gradient, the spin transport properties of normal-metal--insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Roberto E. Troncoso , Scott A. Bender , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

Searching for novel spin caloric effects in antiferromagnets we study the properties of thermally activated magnons in the presence of an external spin current and temperature gradient. We predict the spin Peltier effect -- generation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Olena Gomonay , Kei Yamamoto , Jairo Sinova

The Peltier coefficient describes the amount of heat that is carried by an electrical current when it passes through a material. Connecting two materials with different Peltier coefficients causes a net heat flow towards or away from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-02 J. Flipse , F. L. Bakker , A. Slachter , F. K. Dejene , B. J. van Wees

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…

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

A theoretical formulation for spin transport through an antiferromagnetic (AF) insulator is presented in the case driven/detected by direct/inverse spin Hall effect in two heavy metal contacts. The spin signal is shown to be transferred by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Gen Tatara , Christian Ortiz Pauyac

We develop a theory for spin transport in magnetic metals that treats the contribution of magnons and electrons on equal footing. As an application we consider thermally-driven spin injection across an interface between a magnetic metal and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Maarten Beens , Joseph P. Heremans , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , R. A. Duine

Spin Currents in Tunnel Junctions for example induced by thermoelectric forces due to temperature and magnetization gradients etc. are analyzed. Using Onsager theory yields directly, in particular for magnetic tunnel junctions, metallic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 K. Bennemann

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…

In magnetic topological insulators, quantized electronic transport is interwined with spontaneous magnetic ordering, as magnetization controls band gaps, hence band topology, through the exchange interaction. We show that considering the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Yu-Hang Li , Ran Cheng

When a charge current is applied to a junction comprising two different conductors, its temperature increases or decreases depending on the direction of the charge current. This phenomenon is called the Peltier effect, which is used in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Shunsuke Daimon , Ryo Iguchi , Tomosato Hioki , Eiji Saitoh , Ken-ichi Uchida

Thermoelectric transport involving an arbitrary number of terminals is discussed in the presence of a magnetic field breaking time-reversal symmetry within the linear response regime using the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism. We derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-14 Kay Brandner , Udo Seifert

A microscopic theory of the spin Peltier effect in a bilayer structure comprising a paramagnetic metal (PM) and a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) based on the nonequilibrium Green's function method is presented. Spin current and heat current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Y. Ohnuma , M. Matsuo , S. Maekawa

We develop a linear-response transport theory of diffusive spin and heat transport by magnons in magnetic insulators with metallic contacts. The magnons are described by a position dependent temperature and chemical potential that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Ludo J. Cornelissen , Kevin J. H. Peters , Rembert A. Duine , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Bart J. van Wees

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 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

The electron transport properties of hybrid ferromagnetic|normal metal structures such as multilayers and spin valves depend on the relative orientation of the magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic elements. Whereas the contrast in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Paul J. Kelly

We study transport phenomena cross-correlated among the heat and electric currents of magnons and Dirac electrons on the surface of ferromagnetic topological insulators. For a perpendicular magnetization, we calculate magnon- (electron-)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Yusuke Imai , Hiroshi Kohno

A theoretical study of the magnon-drag Peltier and Seebeck effects in ferromagnetic metals is presented. A magnon heat current is described perturbatively from the microscopic viewpoint with respect to electron--magnon interactions and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma