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We study a bilayer structure consisting of an antiferromagnetic insulator and a normal metal. An electron current is driven in the normal metal with direction parallel to the interface between the materials. Due to interfacial exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Eirik Erlandsen , Asle Sudbø

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

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

Spin and charge currents can be generated by an ac voltage through a one-channel quantum wire with strong electron interactions in a static uniform magnetic field. In a certain range of low voltages, the spin current can grow as a negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bernd Braunecker , D. E. Feldman

Understanding, manipulating, and using magnons - the quanta of spin waves - for energy-efficient applications is one of the primary goals of magnonics. In this paper, we consider a synthetic antiferromagnet in which one of the ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Artim L. Bassant , Mexx E. Y. Regout , Joren S. Harms , Rembert A. Duine

Magneto-electric effect, that is an appearance of magnetisation induced by electric current is allowed by symmetry in metals with crystal structure without space inversion. The microscopic origin of this effect is spin-orbit coupling of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-22 V. P. Mineev

A general expression of the current induced spin torque in a magnetic layered structure in the presence of external dc or ac voltages is derived in the framework of the scattering matrix approach. A detailed analysis is performed for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 F. Romeo , R. Citro

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin whirlpools that promise breakthroughs in future spintronic applications. Controlled generation of magnetic skyrmions by electric current is crucial for this purpose. While previous studies have…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-29 Xuebing Zhao , Jin Tang , Ke Pei , Weiwei Wang , Shi-Zeng Lin , Haifeng Du , Mingliang Tian , Renchao Che

We report the observation and micromagnetic analysis of current-driven magnetization switching in nanoscale ring-shaped magnetic tunnel junctions. When the electric current density exceeds a critical value of the order of $6\times…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Hong-Xiang Wei , Jiexuan He , Zhen-Chao Wen , Xiu-Feng Han , Wen-Shan Zhan , Shufeng Zhang

Gluon field configurations with nonzero topological charge generate chirality, inducing P- and CP-odd effects. When a magnetic field is applied to a system with nonzero chirality, an electromagnetic current is generated along the direction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-01 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Harmen J. Warringa

The electrical manipulation of magnetization by current-induced spin torques has given access to realize a plethora of ultralow power and fast spintronic devices such as non-volatile magnetic memories, spin-torque nano-oscillators, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-21 Yuya Tazaki , Yuito Kageyama , Hiroki Hayashi , Takashi Harumoto , Tenghua Gao , Ji Shi , Kazuya Ando

We establish a general formulation for spin current pumped by magnons at the interface between a normal metal and a magnetic insulator, valid for any non-collinear magnetic configuration in the linear spin wave regime. This current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Virgile Guemard , Aurélien Manchon

Magnons in antiferromagnets exhibit two chiral modes, providing an intrinsic degree of freedom for magnon-based computing architectures and spintronic devices. Electrical control of chiral splitting is crucial for applications, but remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Yu Xie , Dinghui Wang , Chao Li , Xiaofan Shen , Junting Zhang

A magnetic-field-effect transistor is proposed that generates a spin-polarized current and exhibits a giant negative magnetoresitance. The device consists of a nonmagnetic conducting channel (wire or strip) wrapped, or sandwiched, by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , A. V. Yanovsky , E. N. Bogachek , Uzi Landman

We study the macroscopic quantum tunneling of magnetization of the F=1 spinor condensate interacting through dipole-dipole interaction with an external magnetic field applied along the longitudinal or transverse direction. We show that the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Limin Yang , Yunbo Zhang

A new microscopic mechanism of the magneto-electric (ME) effect based on the spin supercurrent is theoretically presented for non-collinear magnets. The close analogy between the superconductors (charge current) and magnets (spin current)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Hosho Katsura , Naoto Nagaosa , Alexander V. Balatsky

Pure spin currents carry information in quantum spintronics and could play an essential role in the next generation low-energy-consumption electronics. Here we theoretically predict that the magnetic field can induce a quantum spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We show that several novel effects related to persistent currents can arise in open systems, which have no analogue in closed or isolated systems. We have considered a system of a metallic ring coupled to two electron reservoirs. We show…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. M. Jayannavar , P. Singha Deo , T. P. Pareek

The developments in the field of quantum optics raise expectations that laser-matter coupling is a promising building block for magnonics. Here, we propose a method for the generation of direct and alternating spin currents of magnons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Kouki Nakata , Yuichi Ohnuma

We study theoretically spin current generation from a band insulator with PT symmetry, which is associated with Zener tunneling in strong dc electric fields. Each band in this system is doubly degenerate with opposite spins, but spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Yuta Suzuki

The spin-orbit interaction is frequently the mechanism by which spin and charge are coupled for spintronic applications. The discovery of spin, a century ago, relied on spin-charge coupling by a magnetic field gradient; this mechanism has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Nicholas J. Harmon , Emma Z. Kurth , Dana Coleman , Lana Flanigan