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The magnetic spin Hall effect is a time-reversal-odd phenomenon in which spin current is induced by the charge current. In the presence of a spin-orbit coupling and/or noncolinear magnetism, however, spin current is not uniquely defined.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Atsuo Shitade

In this work, we study thermally-generated spin current in the system consisting of a quantum dot connected to two magnetic insulators. The external leads are kept at different temperatures which leads to an imbalance of magnon populations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Emil Siuda , Piotr Trocha

Magnonics or magnon spintronics is an emerging field focusing on generating, detecting, and manipulating magnons. As charge-neutral quasi-particles, magnons are promising information carriers because of their low energy dissipation and long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Fengjun Zhuo , Jian Kang , Aurélien Manchon , Zhenxiang Cheng

Spin waves in insulating magnets are ideal carriers for spin currents with low energy dissipation. An electric field can modify the dispersion of spin waves, by directly affecting, via spin-orbit coupling, the electrons that mediate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tianyu Liu , G. Vignale

The spin excitations of ordered magnets - magnons - mediate transport in magnetic insulators. Their bosonic nature makes them qualitatively distinct from electrons. These features include quantum properties traditionally realized with…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-01 Akashdeep Kamra , Wolfgang Belzig , Arne Brataas

In metallic systems with spin-orbit coupling a longitudinal charge current may generate a transverse pure spin current; vice-versa an injected pure spin current may result in a transverse charge current. Such direct and inverse spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Cosimo Gorini

We propose a spintronic device to generate spin polarization in a mesoscopic region by purely electric means. We show that the spin Hall effect in combination with the stirring effect are sufficient to induce measurable spin polarization in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 Yu. V. Pershin , N. A. Sinitsyn , A. Kogan , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

The ability of spintronic devices to utilize an electric current for manipulating the magnetization has resulted in large-scale developments, such as, magnetic random access memories and boosted the spintronic research area. In this regard,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Rajagopalan Ramaswamy , Jong Min Lee , Kaiming Cai , Hyunsoo Yang

Perpendicularly magnetized materials have attracted tremendous interest due to their high anisotropy, which results in extremely narrow, nano-sized domain walls. As a result, the recently studied current-induced domain wall motion (CIDWM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 P. P. J. Haazen , E. Murè , J. H. Franken , R. Lavrijsen , H. J. M. Swagten , B. Koopmans

Spin Hall effect and its inverse provide essential means to convert charge to spin currents and vice versa, which serve as a primary function for spintronic phenomena such as the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance and the spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Yasuhiro Niimi , YoshiChika Otani

The Doppler shift of the quasiparticle dispersion by charge currents is responsible for the critical supercurrents in superconductors and instabilities of the magnetic ground state of metallic ferromagnets. Here we predict an analogous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Tao Yu , Chen Wang , Michael A. Sentef , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The demand for compact, high-speed and energy-saving circuitry urges higher efficiency of spintronic devices that can offer a viable alternative for the current electronics. The route towards this goal suggests implementing two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Talieh S. Ghiasi , Alexey A. Kaverzin , Avalon H. Dismukes , Dennis K. de Wal , Xavier Roy , Bart J. van Wees

We experimentally demonstrate generation of coherent propagating magnons in ultra-thin magnetic-insulator films by spin-orbit torque induced by dc electric current. We show that this challenging task can be accomplished by utilizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 M. Evelt , L. Soumah , A. B. Rinkevich , S. O. Demokritov , A. Anane , V. Cros , Jamal Ben Youssef , G. de Loubens , O. Klein , P. Bortolotti , V. E. Demidov

This paper reports on the improvement of the differential current gain in the spin-torque transistor based on two independent innovations, viz.the use of magnetic insulators and the spin Hall effect. Since, except for a few examples, spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 Takahiro Chiba , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Saburo Takahashi

We derive the effective heat current density operator for the strong-coupling regime of Mott insulators. Similarly to the case of the electric current density, the leading contribution to this effective operator is proportional to the local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-05 Shi-Zeng Lin , Cristian D. Batista

The spin Hall effect and its inverse play key roles in spintronic devices since they allow conversion of charge currents to and from spin currents. The conversion efficiency strongly depends on material details, such as the electronic band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 D. H. Wei , Y. Niimi , B. Gu , T. Ziman , S. Maekawa , Y. Otani

Storing, transmitting, and manipulating information using the electron spin resides at the heart of spintronics. Fundamental for future spintronics applications is the ability to control spin currents in solid state systems. Among the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabrizio Nichele , Szymon Hennel , Patrick Pietsch , Werner Wegscheider , Peter Stano , Philippe Jacquod , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

Antiferromagnetic transition metal oxides are an established and widely studied materials system in the context of spin-based electronics, commonly used as passive elements in exchange bias-based memory devices. Currently, major interest…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-24 H. Meer , O. Gomonay , A. Wittmann , M. Kläui

The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon that an electric field induces a spin Hall current. In this Letter, we examine the inverse effect that, in a ferromagnetic conductor, a charge Hall current is induced by a spin motive force, or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno

Magnon transport through a magnetic insulator can be controlled by current-biased heavy-metal gates that modulate the magnon conductivity via the magnon density. Here, we report nonlinear modulation effects in 10$\,$nm thick yttrium iron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 J. Liu , X-Y. Wei , G. E. W. Bauer , J. Ben Youssef , B. J. van Wees