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We report two non-degenerate magnon modes with opposite spins or chiralities in collinearly antiferromagnetic insulators driven by symmetry-governed anisotropic exchange couplings. The consequent giant spin splitting contributes to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Qirui Cui , Bowen Zeng , Tao Yu , Hongxin Yang , Ping Cui

Thermal and electrical injection and transport of magnon spins in magnetic insulators is conventionally understood by the non-equilibrium population of magnons. However, this view is challenged by several recent experiments in noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Xiyin Ye , Tao Yu

Controlling the phase and amplitude of spin waves in magnetic insulators with an electric field opens the way to fast logic circuits with ultra-low power consumption. One way to achieve such control is to manipulate the magnetization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Rostyslav O. Serha , Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka , Alexander A. Serga , Burkard Hillebrands

A magnetic insulator is an ideal platform to propagate spin information by exploiting magnon currents. However, until now, most studies have focused on Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (YIG) and a few other ferri- and antiferromagnetic insulators, but…

We theoretically demonstrate that adding an easy-axis magnetic anisotropy facilitates magnon condensation in thin yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films. Dipolar interactions in a quasi-equilibrium state stabilize room-temperature magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Therese Frostad , Philipp Pirro , Alexander A. Serga , Burkard Hillebrands , Arne Brataas , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Magnon eigenmodes in easy-plane antiferromagnetic insulators are linearly polarized and are not expected to carry any net spin angular momentum. Motivated by recent nonlocal spin transport experiments in the easy-plane phase of hematite, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Verena Brehm , Olena Gomonay , Serban Lepadatu , Mathias Kläui , Jairo Sinova , Arne Brataas , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Magnonic topological phases realize chiral edge spin waves that are protected against backscattering, potentially enabling highly efficient spin transport. Here we show that the spin transport through these magnonic chiral edge states can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Pieter M. Gunnink , Rembert A. Duine , Alexander Mook

We study the magnon transport in the nonlocal configuration composed of two Pt strips on top of yttrium iron garnet, with and without the presence of RF microwave generated by an on-chip antenna. We find that the spin-Hall induced thermal…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 Yabin Fan , Justin T. Hou , Joseph Finley , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Luqiao Liu

The longitudinal spin Seebeck effect refers to the generation of a spin current when heat flows across a normal metal/magnetic insulator interface. Until recently, most explanations of the spin Seebeck effect use the interfacial temperature…

Magnetically ordered, electrically insulating materials pave the way towards novel spintronic devices. In these materials the flow of magnetic excitations such as magnons results in pure spin currents. These spin currents can be driven by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 Matthias Althammer , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein , Rudolf Gross

Magnon, as elementary excitation in magnetic systems, can carry and transfer angular momentum. Due to the absence of Joule heat during magnon transport, researches on magnon transport have gained considerable interests over the past decade.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 TianYi Zhang , XiuFeng Han

We report room temperature long-distance spin transport of magnons in antiferromagnetic thin film hematite doped with Zn. The additional dopants significantly alter the magnetic anisotropies, resulting in a complex equilibrium spin…

We develop a non-equilibrium Green's function formalism to study magnonic spin transport through a strongly anisotropic ferromagnetic insulator contacted by metallic leads. We model the ferromagnetic insulator as a finite-sized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 W. P. Sterk , Andreas Rückriegel , H. Y. Yuan , Babak Zare Rameshti , R. A. Duine

We demonstrate a modulation of up to 18% in the magnon spin transport in a magnetic insulator (Y$_{3}$Fe$_{5}$O$_{12}$, YIG) using a common ferromagnetic metal (permalloy, Py) as a magnetic control gate. A Py electrode, placed between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 K. S. Das , F. Feringa , M. Middelkamp , B. J. van Wees , I. J. Vera-Marun

Spin current -- a flow of the spin degree of freedom in matter -- has vital importance in spintronics. Propagation of the spin current ranges over a whole momentum space; however, generated spin currents are mainly detected in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-01 Yusuke Nambu , Shin-ichi Shamoto

This article reviews the principles that govern the combined transport of spin, heat, and charge. The extensive thermodynamic quantity associated with spin transport is the magnetization; its Onsager-conjugate force is in general the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Joseph P. Heremans

Advancing the development of spin-wave devices requires high-quality low-damping magnetic materials where magnon spin currents can propagate efficiently and interact effectively with local magnetic textures. We show that magnetic domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Yabin Fan , Miela J. Gross , Takian Fakhrul , Joseph Finley , Justin T. Hou , Luqiao Liu , Caroline A. Ross

We theoretically study the effects of strong magnetoelastic coupling on the transport properties of magnetic insulators. We develop a Boltzmann transport theory for the mixed magnon-phonon modes (magnon polarons) and determine transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Benedetta Flebus , Ka Shen , Takashi Kikkawa , Ken-ichi Uchida , Zhiyong Qiu , Eiji Saitoh , Rembert A. Duine , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We report on experiments demonstrating coherent control of magnon spin transport and pseudospin dynamics in a thin film of the antiferromagnetic insulator hematite utilizing two Pt strips for all-electrical magnon injection and detection.…

Motivated by experimental work showing enhancement of spin transport between Yttrium Iron Garnet and Platinum by a thin antiferromagnetic insulator between them, we consider spin transport through the interface of a non-magnetic metal and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Mahsa Seyed Heydari , Wolfgang Belzig , Niklas Rohling