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We present a comprehensive quasiclassical approach for studying transport properties of superconducting diffusive hybrid structures in the presence of extrinsic spin-orbit coupling. We derive a generalized Usadel equation and boundary…

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We propose a general theory of charge, spin, and orbital diffusion based on Keldysh formalism. Our findings indicate that the diffusivity of orbital angular momentum in metals is much lower than that of spin or charge due to the strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Xiaobai Ning , A. Pezo , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Weisheng Zhao , Kyung-Jin Lee , Aurelien 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

Spins transverse to the magnetization of a ferromagnet only survives over a short distance. We develop a drift-diffusion approach that captures the main features of transverse spin effects in systems with arbitrary spin textures (vortices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 Cyril Petitjean , David Luc , Xavier Waintal

The theory of spin diffusion is extended to the case of spin lattice relaxation and spin diffusion in an inhomogeneous field in spin systems with non-equidistant energy spectrum. Two coupled equations describing the mutual relaxation and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory B. Furman , Shaul D. Goren

We investigate spin transport by thermally excited spin waves in an antiferromagnetic insulator. Starting from a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology, we obtain the out-of-equilibrium spin-wave properties. In linear response to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Scott A. Bender , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

We present a quantum transport theory for generic magnetic metals, in which magnetism occurs predominantly due to exchange interactions, such as ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, altermagnets and p-wave magnets. Our theory is valid both for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-11 Tim Kokkeler , Ilya Tokatly , F. Sebastian Bergeret

For the technologically relevant spin Hall effect most theoretical approaches rely on the evaluation of the spin-conductivity tensor. In contrast, for most experimental configurations the generation of spin accumulation at interfaces and…

The manipulation of single spins through spin-polarized tunneling opens new routes for quantum control at the atomic scale. We present a theoretical framework describing spin-transfer, spin torques and spin resonance in molecular quantum…

The drift-diffusion formalism for spin-polarized carrier transport in semiconductors is generalized to include spin-orbit coupling. The theory is applied to treat the extrinsic spin Hall effect using realistic boundary conditions. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wang-Kong Tse , J. Fabian , I. Zutic , S. Das Sarma

It is known that the transfer of spin angular momenta between current carriers and local moments occurs near the interface of magnetic layers when their moments are non-collinear. However, to determine the magnitude of the transfer, one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asya Shpiro , Peter M. Levy , Shufeng Zhang

We propose a semi-classical model for femtosecond-laser induced demagnetization due to spin-polarized excited electron diffusion in the super-diffusive regime. Our approach treats the finite elapsed time and transport in space between…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-14 Marco Battiato , Karel Carva , Peter M. Oppeneer

In a two-dimensional ferromagnetic metal layer lacking inversion symmetry, the itinerant electrons mediate the interaction between the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and the ferromagnetic order parameter, leading to a Rashba spin torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-24 Xuhui Wang , Aurelien Manchon

Current-driven magnetization dynamics of single ferromagnets in heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayers has been recently realized. In this work, spin torque induced by so-called Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin Hall effect are considered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Aurelien Manchon

We present the analysis of the spin signals obtained in NiFe based metallic lateral spin valves. We exploit the spin dependent diffusive equations in both the conventional 1D analytic modeling as well as in 3D Finite Element Method…

We study spin and charge diffusion in metallic-ferromagnet/topological-insulator junctions. The coupled diffusion equations are derived perturbatively with respect to the strength of the interlayer tunneling. We calculate spin accumulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takehito Yokoyama , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

An antiferromagnet is a promising material for spin-orbit torque generation. Earlier studies of the spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet are limited to collinear spin configurations. We calculate the spin-orbit torque in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Suik Cheon , Hyun-Woo Lee

The semiclassical Boltzmann transport equation of charged, massive fermions in a rotating frame of reference, in the presence of external electromagnetic fields is solved in the relaxation time approach to establish the distribution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 O. F. Dayi , E. Yunt

Ultrafast demagnetization induced by femtosecond laser pulses in thin metallic layers is caused by the outflow of spin-polarized hot electron currents describable by the superdiffusive transport model. These laser-generated spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Pavel Baláž , Maciej Zwierzycki , Francesco Cosco , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

The charge and spin diffusion equations taking into account spin-flip and spin-transfer torque were numerically solved using a finite element method in complex non-collinear geometry. This approach was used to study the spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-14 N. Strelkov , A. Vedyayev , D. Gusakova , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , M. Chshiev , S. Amara , A. Vaysset , B. Dieny