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We demonstrate that the spin Hall effect in a thin film with strong spin-orbit scattering can excite magnetic precession in an adjacent ferromagnetic film. The flow of alternating current through a Pt/NiFe bilayer generates an oscillating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Luqiao Liu , Takahiro Moriyama , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

The phenomenon of Spin Hall Effect (SHE) generates a pure spin current transverse to an applied current in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling, although not detectable through conventional electrical measurement. An intuitive Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Soumik Aon , Abu Bakkar Miah , Arpita Mandal , Harekrishna Bhunia , Dhananjaya Mahapatra , Partha Mitra

We study the Nernst effect and the spin Nernst effect, that a longitudinal thermal gradient induces a transverse voltage and a spin current. A mesoscopic four-terminal cross-bar device having the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shu-guang Cheng , Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The spin Hall effect in tungsten films has been experimentally studied by using STM-based measurements. These measurements have been performed by using tungsten and iron coated tungsten tips. In the case of tungsten tips, it has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Ting Xie , Michael Dreyer , David Bowen , Dan Hinkel , R. E. Butera , Charles Krafft , Isaak Mayergoyz

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

It is proposed that when a charge current circulates in a paramagnetic metal a transverse spin imbalance will be generated, giving rise to a 'spin Hall voltage'. Similarly, that when a spin current circulates a transverse charge imbalance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Hirsch

Magnon excitations in antiferromagnetic materials and their physical implications enable novel device concepts not available in ferromagnets, emerging as a new area of active research. A unique characteristic of antiferromagnetic magnons is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

We theoretically study the conditions under which a spin Nernst effect - a transverse spin current induced by an applied temperature gradient - can occur in a canted antiferromagnetic insulator, such as ${\rm LaFeO_3}$ and other materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Wesley Roberts , Bowen Ma , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Gregory A. Fiete

We present the microscopic theory of the spin Nernst effect, which is a transverse spin current directly induced by a temperature gradient, employing the linear response theory with Luttinger's gravitational potential method. We consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Junji Fujimoto , Taiki Matsushita , Masao Ogata

A prominent feature of $d$-wave altermagnets is that spin current is generated by applying temperature gradient, which is known as the spin-Nernst effect. We show in $f$-wave magnets that spin current is generated proportional to the square…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Motohiko Ezawa

The Nernst effect is a fundamental thermoelectric conversion phenomenon that was deemed to be possible only in systems with magnetic field or magnetization. In this work, we propose a novel dynamical chiral Nernst effect that can appear in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Juncheng Li , Dawei Zhai , Cong Xiao , Wang Yao

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

Since spin currents can be generated, detected, and manipulated via the spin Hall effect (SHE), the design of strong SHE materials has become a focus in the field of spintronics. Because of the recent experimental progress also the spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-31 Yang Zhang , Qiunan Xu , Klaus Koepernik , Johannes Gooth , Jeroen van den Brink , Claudia Felser , Yan Sun

The spin Hall effect creates a spin current in response to a charge current in a material that has strong spin-orbit coupling. The size of the spin Hall effect in many materials is disputed, requiring independent measurements of the effect.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Joseph A. Boales , Carl T. Boone , Pritiraj Mohanty

The spin Nernst effect, an antisymmetric response of a spin current to a temperature gradient, has attracted attention as spin transport phenomenon arising from the topologically nontrivial band structure of carriers. This effect can occur…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Shinnosuke Koyama , Joji Nasu

Altermagnet is a distinctive magnet phase, which has spin-split energy band but with zero net magnetic moment. In this paper, we propose that altermagnet behaves spin splitting Nernst effect: Under a longitudinal temperature gradient, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Xing-Jian Yi , Yue Mao , Xiancong Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

The spin-orbit interaction in a solid couples the spin of an electron to its momentum. This coupling gives rise to mutual conversion between spin and charge currents: the direct and inverse spin Hall effects. The spin Hall effects have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Kazuya Ando , Eiji Saitoh

Direct and inverse spin Hall effects lie at the heart of novel applications that utilize spins of electrons as information carriers, allowing generation of spin currents and detecting them via the electric voltage. In the standard…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-03 Arunesh Roy , Marcos H. D. Guimarães , Jagoda Sławińska

In ferromagnet/normal-metal bilayers, the sensitivity of the spin Hall magnetoresistance and the spin Nernst magnetothermopower to the boundary conditions at the interface is of central importance. In general, such boundary conditions can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Sebastian Tölle , Michael Dzierzawa , Ulrich Eckern , Cosimo Gorini

The magnetic spin Hall effect arises from a reactive counterpart of the dissipative spin response that is responsible for the ordinary spin Hall effect. This interpretation is supported by the dependence of spin Hall effect signals on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 José Holanda