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We propose a scheme where transport measurements of charge current and its noise can be used to determine the spin Hall conductance in a four-terminal setup. Starting from the scattering formalism we express the spin current and spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Daniel Loss

The helimagnet (HM) and skyrmion lattice (SL) are topologically nontrivial magnetic states. Their spin texture gives rise to finite topological magnetic field and Lorentz force. As a demonstration of the emergent electrodynamics besides the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Rui Zhu

Recent studies have revealed magnetically controllable thermoelectric effects in superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) structures. A tunable cryogenic thermoelectric generator needs not only a high conversion factor between electricity and heat,…

Spin superfluids enable long-distance spin transport through classical ferromagnets by developing topologically stable magnetic textures. For small spins at low dimensions, however, the topological protection suffers from strong quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The interface between a ferro-/ferrimagnetic insulator and a normal metal can support spin currents polarized collinear with and perpendicular to the magnetization direction. The flow of angular momentum perpendicular to the magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 David A. Reiss , Piet W. Brouwer

We report magnetization and magetoresistance measurements in hybrid ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor heterostructures comprised of MnAs/(Ga,Mn)As bilayers. Our measurements show that the (metallic) MnAs and (semiconducting) (Ga,Mn)As…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-14 M. Zhu , M. J. Wilson , B. L. Sheu , P. Mitra , P. Schiffer , N. Samarth

We study the nonlocal spin transport in a lateral spin valve with multiple ferromagnetic (FM) electrodes. When two current-injecting and two spin current-detecting electrodes are all ferromagnetic, the number of possible nonlocal spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Tae-Suk Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , B. C. Lee

Graphene has remarkable opportunities for spintronics due to its high mobility and long spin diffusion length, especially when encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Here, for the first time, we demonstrate gate-tunable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jinsong Xu , Simranjeet Singh , Jyoti Katoch , Guanzhong Wu , Tiancong Zhu , Igor Zutic , Roland K. Kawakami

This article discusses the spin-torque effect in a spin-valve made out of two ferromagnetic leads connected through a coherent nanoconductor (NC), in the limit where a single channel of the NC lies near the Fermi energy of the leads. Due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-24 Audrey Cottet

We report the theoretical investigation of noise spectrum of spin current and spin transfer torque for non-colinear spin polarized transport in a spin-valve device which consists of normal scattering region connected by two ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yunjin Yu , Hongxin Zhan , Langhui Wan , Bin Wang , Yadong Wei , Qingfeng Sun , Jian Wang

In a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (F/S/F) superconducting spin-valve (SSV), a change of the magnetization alignment of the two F layers modulates the critical temperature (Tc) of the S layer. The Tc-switching (the SSV effect) is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-19 Tomohiro Kikuta , Sachio Komori , Keiichiro Imura , Tomoyasu Taniyama

Using the non-equilibrium statistical operator method (NSO), we have investigated the spin transport through the interface in a semiconductor/ferromagnetic insulator hybrid structure. We have analyzed the approximation of effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 I. I. Lyapilin , M. S. Okorokov , V. V. Ustinov

Current-driven spin torques in metallic spin-valves composed of antiferromagnets are theoretically studied using the non-equilibrium Green's function method implemented on a tight-binding model. We focus our attention on G-type and L-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hamed Ben Mohamed Saidaoui , Xavier Waintal , Aurelien Manchon

We study theoretically the detection and possible utilization of electric current-induced mechanical torques in ferromagnetic-normal metal heterostructures that are generated by spin-flip scattering or the absorption of transverse spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-01 Alexey A. Kovalev , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

We consider a quasi one-dimensional configuration consisting of two small pieces of ferromagnetic material separated by a metallic one and contacted by two metallic leads. A spin-polarized current is injected from one lead. Our goal is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 J. Peguiron , M. -S. Choi , C. Bruder

We study clean ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet (FSF) nanostructures in which the magnetization of the F layers can be parallel (P) or antiparallel (AP). We consider the case where the thickness of the S layer is of order of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Klaus Halterman , Oriol T. Valls

We derive diffusion equations, which describe spin-charge coupled transport on the helical metal surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. The main feature of these equations is a large magnitude of the spin-charge coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , D. G. Hawthorn

We present a systematic first-principles investigation of linear-response spin-dependent quantum transport in the van der Waals ferromagnets Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$, Fe$_4$GeTe$_2$, Fe$_5$GeTe$_2$, and Fe$_3$GaTe$_2$. Using density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Anita Halder , Declan Nell , Akash Bajaj , Stefano Sanvito , Andrea Droghetti

We theoretically investigate spin transport at the interface between the ferromagnetic insulator(FI) and a superconductor(SC). Considering a simple FI-SC interface model, we derive formulas for the spin current and spin-current noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 T. Kato , Y. Ohnuma , M. Matsuo , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

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 with strongly inhomogeneous current flow. As an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-14 N. Strelkov , A. Vedyayev , N. Ryzhanova , D. Gusakova , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , M. Chshiev , S. Amara , N. de Mestier , C. Baraduc , B. Dieny