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All-solid-state nanoscale devices capable of efficiently controlling a heat flow are crucial for advanced thermal management technologies. Here we predict a magnon-driven magnetothermal resistance (mMTR) effect in multilayers of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Ping Tang , Ken-ichi Uchida , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

In this work, we study thermally-generated spin current in the system consisting of a quantum dot connected to two magnetic insulators. The external leads are kept at different temperatures which leads to an imbalance of magnon populations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Emil Siuda , Piotr Trocha

Spin pumping and spin-transfer torques are two reciprocal phenomena widely studied in ferromagnetic materials. However, pumping from antiferromagnets and its relation to current-induced torques have not been explored. By calculating how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 Ran Cheng , Jiang Xiao , Qian Niu , Arne Brataas

Quantized spin waves, or magnons, in a magnetic insulator are assumed to interact weakly with the surroundings, and to flow with little dissipation or drag, producing exceptionally long diffusion lengths and relaxation times. In analogy to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Tianyu Liu , G. Vignale , M. E. Flatté

We theoretically study electrical responses of magnetization in Weyl semimetals. The Weyl semimetal is a new class of topological semimetals, possessing hedgehog type spin textures in momentum space. Because of this peculiar spin texture,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

Magnetic devices are a leading contender for implementing memory and logic technologies that are nonvolatile, that can scale to high density and high speed, and that do not suffer wear-out. However, widespread applications of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. R. Mellnik , J. S. Lee , A. Richardella , J. L. Grab , P. J. Mintun , M. H. Fischer , A. Vaezi , A. Manchon , E. -A. Kim , N. Samarth , D. C. Ralph

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…

We consider current-induced spin-transfer torque on an antiferromagnet in a dual spin-valve setup. It is demonstrated that a net magnetization may be induced in the AFM by partially or completely aligning the sublattice magnetizations via a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jacob Linder

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) refers to the generation of a spin current as a result of a temperature gradient in magnetic materials including insulators. The SSE is applicable to thermoelectric generation because the thermally generated…

Efficient control of magnetism with electric means is a central issue of current spintronics research, which opens an opportunity to design integrated spintronic devices. However, recent well-studied methods are mostly based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 Akihito Takeuchi , Shigeyasu Mizushima , Masahito Mochizuki

We study the dynamics of spin valves consisting of two layers of magnetic insulators separated by a normal metal in the macrospin model. A current through the spacer generates a spin Hall current that can actuate the magnetization via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Hans Skarsvåg , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

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

We propose that topological spin currents flowing in topologically non-trivial magnetic textures, such as magnetic skyrmions and vortices, produce an intrinsic non-adiabatic torque of the form ${\bf T}_t\sim [(\partial_x{\bf…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Collins Ashu Akosa , Papa Birame Ndiaye , Aurélien Manchon

Several experimental efforts such as material investigation and structure improvement have been made recently to find a large anomalous Nernst effect in ferromagnetic metals. Here, we develop a theory of spin transport driven by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Tomohiro Taniguchi

The Hall effect usually occurs when the Lorentz force acts on a charge current in a conductor in the presence of perpendicular magnetic field. On the other hand, neutral quasi-particles such as phonons and spins can carry heat current and…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-08-12 Y. Onose , T. Ideue , H. Katsura , Y. Shiomi , N. Nagaosa , Y. Tokura

We performed measurements of Py/Cu and Py/Ag lateral spin valves as function of injection current direction and magnitude. Above a 'critical' current, there is an unexpected dependence of spin injection on current direction. Positive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Mikhail Erekhinsky , Fèlix Casanova , Ivan K. Schuller , Amos Sharoni

Spin-transfer-torque, a transfer of angular momentum between the electron spin and the local magnetic moments, is a promising and key mechanism to control ferromagnetic materials in modern spintronic devices . However, much less attention…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-20 T. Moriyama , M. Nagata , K. Tanaka , K-J. Kim , H. Almasi , W. Wang , T. Ono

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

We model and evaluate the Peltier and Seebeck effects in magnetic multilayer nanostructures by a finite-element theory of thermoelectric properties. We present analytical expressions for the thermopower and the current-induced temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-21 Moosa Hatami , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Qinfang Zhang , Paul J. Kelly

In metallic ferromagnets, the spin-transfer torque and spin-motive force are known to exhibit a reciprocal relationship. Recent experiments on ferromagnets with strong spin-orbit coupling have revealed a rich complexity in the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas