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Energy loss due to ohmic heating is a major bottleneck limiting down-scaling and speed of nano-electronic devices, and harvesting ohmic heat for signal processing is a major challenge in modern electronics. Here we demonstrate that thermal…

Transport of fermions is central in many fields of physics. Electron transport runs modern technology, defining states of matter such as superconductors and insulators, and electron spin, rather than charge, is being explored as a new…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-17 Ariel Sommer , Mark Ku , Giacomo Roati , Martin W. Zwierlein

When a charge current is applied to a junction comprising two different conductors, its temperature increases or decreases depending on the direction of the charge current. This phenomenon is called the Peltier effect, which is used in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Shunsuke Daimon , Ryo Iguchi , Tomosato Hioki , Eiji Saitoh , Ken-ichi Uchida

Pure spin currents hold promises for an energy-friendlier spintronics. They can be generated by a flow of charge along a non-magnetic metal having a large spin-orbit coupling. It produces a spin accumulation at its surfaces, controllable by…

Spin-orbit coupling stands as a powerful tool to interconvert charge and spin currents and to manipulate the magnetization of magnetic materials through the spin torque phenomena. However, despite the diversity of existing bulk materials…

The theoretical prediction of topological insulators in 2007 triggered tremendous interest. They are of fundamental interest because of their topological twist in k-space, which comes along with unidirectional, spin-polarized surface-state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 T. Schumann , N. Meyer , G. Mussler , J. Kampmeier , D. Grützmacher , E. Schmoranzerova , L. Braun , T. Kampfrath , J. Walowski , M. Münzenberg

We explore the competition between light-mediated and intrinsic matter-matter interactions in waveguide quantum electrodynamics. For this, we couple a superconducting transmission line to a model magnetic material, made of organic free…

Spin pumping is an interfacial spin current generation from the ferromagnetic layer to the non-magnetic metal at its interface. The polarization of the pumped spin current $\textbf{J}_s \propto \textbf{m}\times \dot{\textbf{m}}$ depends on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Adam B. Cahaya

We present theoretical evidence, based on total-energy first-principles calculations, of the existence of spin-polarized states well localized at and extended along the edges of bare zigzag boron nitride nanoribbons. Our calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Veronica Barone , Juan E. Peralta

A vital goal in spintronics is the efficient electrical generation of spin currents, a pursuit that has recently focused on using antiferromagnets (AFMs) as spin current sources. It has been demonstrated that antiferromagnets with broken PT…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-07 Meng Zhu , Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Jiahao Shentu , Yizhuo Song , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Jia Zhang

We study hydrodynamic thermal transport in high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems placed in an in-plane magnetic field, and identify a new mechanism of thermal magnetotransport. This mechanism is caused by drag between the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Alex Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) is known as the generation of 'spin voltage' in a magnet as a result of a temperature gradient. Spin voltage stands for the potential for spins, which drives a spin current. The SSE is of crucial importance in…

From the study of long-range-interacting systems to the simulation of gauge fields, open-shell Lanthanide atoms with their large magnetic moment and narrow optical transitions open novel directions in the field of ultracold quantum gases.…

Modern magnetic memory technology requires unconventional transverse spin current to achieve deterministic switching of perpendicular magnetization. Spin current in antiferromagnets (AFMs) has been long thought to be trivial as nonmagnets.…

Recently there have been significant interests in the spin hydrodynamic generation phenomenon from multiple disciplines of physics. Such phenomenon arises from global polarization effect of microscopic spin by macroscopic fluid rotation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-07 Xingyu Guo , Jinfeng Liao , Enke Wang

We theoretically demonstrate that electromagnetic energy can be obtained by direct, lossless, conversion from gravitational and kinetic energies. For this purpose we discuss the properties of an electromechanical system which consists of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-08 Osvaldo F. Schilling

Here, we describe the prototype for precisely scaled temperature assisted magnetic recording scheme utilizing the characteristics of thermo-remnant magnetization (TRM) in bulk SmCrO$_3$ as a memory media. The TRM response can be exploited…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-20 M. Tripathi

Spin-resolved electron symmetry filtering is a key mechanism behind giant tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in Fe/MgO/Fe and similar magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), providing room temperature functionality in modern spin electronics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 César González-Ruano , Coriolan Tiusan , Michel Hehn , Farkhad G. Aliev

Harnessing energy from ubiquitous water resources via molecular-scale mechanisms remains a critical frontier in sustainable energy research. Herein, we present a novel evaporation-driven power generator based on a dynamic diode architecture…

Spin torque oscillators are spintronic devices that generate a periodic output signal from a non-periodic input, making them promising candidates for applications like microwave communications and neuromorphic computing. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Daniel Kubler , David A. Smith , Tommy Nguyen , Fernando Ramos-Diaz , Satoru Emori , Vivek P. Amin