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Chiral magnons, the quanta of handed spin waves, transport spin angular momentum without energy loss due to Joule heating. The recently discovered altermagnets were proposed to host chiral magnons arising from a non-relativistic exchange…

We predict that the flow of unpolarized current in electron-doped GaAs and InP at room temperature is unstable at high electric fields to the dynamic formation of spin-polarized current pulses. Spin-polarized current is spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Zhi-Gang Yu , Michael E. Flatté

We microscopically analyze thermal spin pumping mediated by magnons, at the interface between a ferromagnetic insulator and a non-magnetic metal, in the semiclassical regime. The generation of a spin current is discussed by calculating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Kouki Nakata

Coupling between conduction electrons and localized magnetization is responsible for a variety of phenomena in spintronic devices. This coupling enables to generate spin currents from dynamical magnetization. Due to the nonlinearity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Takaharu Tashiro , Saki Matsuura , Akiyo Nomura , Shun Watanabe , Keehoon Kang , Henning Sirringhaus , Kazuya Ando

A mechanism to generate a spin-polarized current in a two-terminal zigzag silicene nanoribbon is predicted. As a weak local exchange field that is parallel to the surface of silicene is applied on one of edges of the silicene nanoribbon, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Xing-Tao An , Yan-Yang Zhang , Jian-Jun Liu , Shu-Shen Li

Magnetic torques generated through spin-orbit coupling promise energy-efficient spintronic devices. It is important for applications to control these torques so that they switch films with perpendicular magnetizations without an external…

We theoretically examine generation of spin-polarized current using multi-terminated quantum dot with spin-orbit interaction. First, a two-level quantum dot is analyzed as a minimal model, which is connected to $N$ ($\ge 2$) external leads…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Mikio Eto

We study the dynamics of spin valves consisting of two layers of magnetic insulators separated by a normal metal in the macrospin model. A current through the spacer generates a spin Hall current that can actuate the magnetization via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Hans Skarsvåg , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

A theoretical framework is proposed for the spin-current driven synchronized self-oscillations in ferromagnets in the spin Hall geometry. The spin current generated by the spin Hall effect in a bottom nonmagnetic heavy metal excites a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Tomohiro Taniguchi

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

It is shown that in a single-axis antiferromagnetic semiconductor placed in a strong magnetic field, dispersionless magnons start emitting at any arbitrarily small velocity of an electron occurring in a spinpolaron state. If magnons are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Victor D. Lakhno

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in chiral magnets in the presence of a spin polarized current. The motion of skyrmions in the ferromagnetic background excites spin waves and contributes to additional damping. At a large current, the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-15 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

We argue that the presence of a very strong magnetic field in the chirally broken phase induces inhomogeneous expectation values, of a spiral nature along the magnetic field axis, for the currents of charge and chirality, when there is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Gokce Basar , Gerald V. Dunne , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Quantum rings connected to ballistic circuits couple strongly to external magnetic fields if the connection is not symmetric. By analytical theory and computer simulation I show that properly connected rings can be used to pump currents in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Michele Cini

We introduce a new class of spintronics devices in which a spin-valve like effect results from strong spin-orbit coupling in a single ferromagnetic layer rather than from injection and detection of a spin-polarized current by two coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Gould , C. Rüster , T. Jungwirth , E. Girgis , G. M. Schott , R. Giraud , K. Brunner , G. Schmidt , L. W. Molenkamp

Spin Hall effect plays an essential role in generating spin current from the injected charge current, following the Dyakonov-Perel rule that the directions of charge flow, spin flow and spin polarization are mutually perpendicular to each…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Po-Hung Lin , Po-Wei Lee , Yu-Hsuan Lin , Bo-Yuan Yang , Vinod Kumar , Hsiu-Hau Lin , Chih-Huang Lai

We consider a system of two spins under a scanning tunneling microscope bias and derive its master equation. We find that the tunneling elements to the electronic contacts (tip and substrate) generate an exchange interaction between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Baruch Horovitz , Carsten Henkel

It is argued that experiments on rotating superconductors provide evidence for the existence of macroscopic spin currents in superconductors in the absence of applied external fields. Furthermore it is shown that the model of hole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. E. Hirsch

The tunneling of a giant spin at excited levels is studied theoretically in mesoscopic magnets with a magnetic field at an arbitrary angle in the easy plane. Different structures of the tunneling barriers can be generated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rong Lu , Hui Pan , Jia-Lin Zhu , Bing-Lin Gu

We study nonequilibrium spin dynamics in differentially rotating systems, deriving an effective Hamiltonian for conduction electrons in the comoving frame. In contrast to conventional spin current generation mechanisms that require…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Takumi Funato , Shunichiro Kinoshita , Norihiro Tanahashi , Shin Nakamura , Mamoru Matsuo