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Magnetotransport underlines many important phenomena in condensed matter physics, such as the Hall effect and magnetoresistance (MR) effect. Thus far, most magnetotransport studies are based on bulk resistance measurements without direct…

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Low power spintronic devices based on the propagation of pure magnonic spin currents in antiferromagnetic insulator materials offer several distinct advantages over ferromagnetic components including higher frequency magnons and a stability…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-30 A. Ross , R. Lebrun , M. Evers , A. Deák , L. Szunyogh , U. Nowak , M. Kläui

We address a previously unexplored type of dynamical proximity effect that occurs in s-wave topological superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator (TS/FI) heterostructures. It is predicted that magnons in the FI and the Nambu-Goldstone (NG)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-24 T. Karabassov , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , A. S. Vasenko , A. A. Golubov

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

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

We formulate a theoretical description of antiferromagnetic magnons and their transport in terms of an associated pseudospin. The need and strength of this formulation emerges from the antiferromagnetic eigenmodes being formed from…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-03 Akashdeep Kamra , Tobias Wimmer , Hans Huebl , Matthias Althammer

Magnon confinement and trapping refer to the localization of magnons-quasiparticles that represent collective spin-wave excitations in magnetic materials-within specific regions or structures. This concept is essential in magnonics, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 J. Chen , H. Yu , R. Gallardo , P. Landeros , G. Gubbiotti

The influence of an asymmetric in-plane magnetic anisotropy on the thermally activated spin current is studied theoretically for two different systems; (i) the system consisting of a ferromagnetic insulator in a direct contact with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , S. R. Etesami , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

Experimental and theoretical aspects of Hall-type transport of spins in magnetic insulators are reviewed, with emphasis on their spin chirality origin. A general formalism for linear response theory of thermal Hall transport in the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-22 Jung Hoon Han , Hyunyong Lee

This article reviews low-temperature heat transport studies of spin-gapped quantum magnets in the last few decades. Quantum magnets with small spins and low dimensionality exhibit a variety of novel phenomena. Among them, some systems are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-18 Xia Zhao , Zhiying Zhao , Xuguang Liu , Xuefeng Sun

An easy-plane ferromagnetic insulator in a uniform external magnetic field and in contact with a phonon bath and a normal metal bath is studied theoretically in the presence of dc spin current injection via the spin Hall effect in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 So Takei

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

Spin transport via magnon diffusion in magnetic insulators is important for a broad range of spin-based phenomena and devices. However, the absence of the magnon equivalent of an electric force is a bottleneck. In this work, we demonstrate…

The spin chemical potential characterizes the tendency of spins to diffuse. Probing the spin chemical potential could provide insight into materials such as magnetic insulators and spin liquids and aid optimization of spintronic devices.…

We investigate spin transport in 2-dimensional insulators, with the long-term goal of establishing whether any of the transport coefficients corresponds to the Fu-Kane-Mele index which characterizes 2d time-reversal-symmetric topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Giovanna Marcelli , Gianluca Panati , Clément Tauber

General relations for nonequilibrium spin transport at a magnetic junction between a normal metal and a ferromagnetic insulator are derived from the quantum fluctuation theorem. They include the extended Onsager relations between the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Tetsuya Sato , Masahiro Tatsuno , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

Superconductors are materials with zero electrical resistivity and the ability to expel magnetic fields known as the Meissner effect. Their dissipationless diamagnetic response is central to magnetic levitation and circuits such as quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 M. Borst , P. H. Vree , A. Lowther , A. Teepe , S. Kurdi , I. Bertelli , B. G. Simon , Y. M. Blanter , T. van der Sar

We present a unified quantum field theory for Dirac magnons coupled to emergent gauge fields. At zero temperature, any space- and time-dependent gauge perturbation drives magnons out of equilibrium, generating spin currents and magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Luis Fernández , Ka Shen , Leandro O. Nascimento , Van Sérgio Alves , Roberto E. Troncoso , Nicolas Vidal-Silva

Non-collinear antiferromagnets (nAFMs) with a small net magnetic moment offer new opportunities for ultrafast spintronic devices, owing to unique physical properties. While in ferromagnets and collinear AFMs the spin current polarization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Ping Tang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We propose a theory for thermal Hall transport mediated by magnons to address the impact of their damping resulting from magnon-magnon interactions in insulating magnets. This phenomenon is anticipated to be particularly significant in…

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