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Altermagnets offer a promising platform for dissipationless spin transport by combining zero net magnetization with spontaneous non-relativistic spin splitting. However, their magnonic transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Sankar Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

In an easy-plane antiferromagnet with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), magnons are subject to an effective spin-momentum locking. An in-plane temperature gradient can generate interfacial accumulation of magnons with a specified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

While the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect and antiferromagnetic order constitute two of the most promising phenomena for embedding basic spintronic concepts into future technologies, almost all of the QSH insulators known to date are…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-22 C. Niu , J. -P. Hanke , P. M. Buhl , G. Bihlmayer , D. Wortmann , S. Blügel , Y. Mokrousov

We study the laser control of magnon topological phases induced by the Aharonov-Casher effect in insulating antiferromagnets (AFs). Since the laser electric field can be considered as a time-periodic perturbation, we apply the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Kouki Nakata , Se Kwon Kim , Shintaro Takayoshi

We investigate a spin-electricity conversion effect in a topological insulator/ferromagnet heterostructure. In the spin-momentum-locked surface state, an electric current generates nonequilibrium spin accumulation, which causes a spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Nobuyuki Okuma , Kentaro Nomura

We propose a model with Weyl magnons and nodal-line magnons ($\mathbb{Z}_2$) in a collinear altermagnet on the honeycomb lattice. Altermagnetic magnon bands can be realized by breaking the symmetry of the second nearest neighbor exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Meng-Han Zhang , Lu Xiao , Dao-Xin Yao

Magnon spin Nernst effect was recently proposed as an intrinsic effect in antiferromagnets, where spin diffusion and boundary spin transmission have been ignored. However, diffusion processes are essential to convert a bulk spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

In the absence of an external magnetic field and a spin-polarized charge current, an antiferromagnetic system supports two degenerate magnon modes. An applied thermal bias activates the magnetic dynamics, leading to a magnon flow from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 L. Chotorlishvili , Xi-guang Wang , A. Dyrdal , Guang-hua Guo , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

Electronic spin current is convertible to magnonic spin current via the creation or annihilation of thermal magnons at the interface of a magnetic insulator and a metal with a strong spin-orbital coupling. So far this phenomenon was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Xi-guang Wang , Zhi-xiong Li , Zhen-wei Zhou , Yao-zhuang Nie , Qing-lin Xia , Zhong-ming Zeng , L. Chotorlishvili , J. Berakdar , Guang-hua Guo

Non-collinear triangular antiferromagnets with a coplanar spin arrangement and vanishing net magnetic moment can exhibit a large anomalous Hall effect owing to their non-vanishing momentum space Berry curvature. Here we show the existence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-15 Pradeep K. Rout , P. V. Prakash Madduri , Subhendu K. Manna , Ajaya K. Nayak

We present a theory of the spin Hall magnetoresistance of metals in contact with magnetic insulators. We express the spin-mixing conductances, which govern the phenomenology of the effect, in terms of the microscopic parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 X. P. Zhang , F. S. Bergeret , V. N. Golovach

The spin Nernst effect is a phenomenon in which the spin current flows perpendicular to a temperature gradient. Similar to the spin Hall effect, this phenomenon also causes spin accumulation at the boundaries. Here, we study the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Atsuo Shitade

We theoretically investigate a nonlinear spin Hall effect in $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric antiferromagnetic metals, which serve as an efficient spin current generator. We elucidate that an emergent spin-dependent Berry curvature dipole is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Satoru Hayami , Megumi Yatsushiro , Hiroaki Kusunose

We predict that magnon motive force can lead to temperature dependent, nonlinear chiral damping in both conducting and insulating ferromagnets. We estimate that this damping can significantly influence the motion of skyrmions and domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Utkan Güngördü , Alexey A. Kovalev

The spin-Hall effect describes the interconversion of charge currents and spin currents, enabling highly efficient manipulation of magnetization for spintronics. Symmetry conditions generally restrict polarizations of these spin currents to…

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

In this paper, we study the Berry curvature induced linear and nonlinear magnon transport in bilayer van der Waals antiferromagnets, where we deduce forms for the spin and energy currents within the semiclassical Boltzmann formalism under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Rohit Mukherjee , Sonu Verma , Arijit Kundu

Using a semiclassical approach, we study the persistent magnetization current of a mesoscopic ferrimagnetic ring in a nonuniform magnetic field. At zero temperature, there exists persistent spin current because of the quantum fluctuation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jing-Nuo Wu , Ming-Che Chang , Min-Fong Yang

In the past, magnons have been shown to mediate thermal transport of spin in various systems. Here, we reveal that the fundamental coupling of scalar spin chirality, inherent to magnons, to the electronic degrees of freedom in the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Li-chuan Zhang , Fabian R. Lux , Jan-Philipp Hanke , Patrick M. Buhl , Sergii Grytsiuk , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

We derive a master equation that allows us to study non-equilibrium dynamics of a quantum antiferromagnet. By resorting to spin-wave theory, we obtain a closed analytic form for the magnon decay rates. These turn out to be closely related…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Ángel Rivas , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado