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The spin Seebeck effect is studied across a charge insulating magnetic junction, in which thermal-spin conjugate transport is assisted by the exchange interactions between the localized spin in the center and electrons in metallic leads. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Jie Ren , Jonas Fransson , Jian-Xin Zhu

Creating, manipulating and detecting spin polarized carriers are the key elements of spin based electronics. Most practical devices use a perpendicular geometry in which the spin currents, describing the transport of spin angular momentum,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Abraham Slachter , Frank Lennart Bakker , Jean-Paul Adam , Bart Jan van Wees

Our joint theoretical and computer experimental study of heat-to-spin conversion reveals that noncollinear antiferromagnetic insulators are promising materials for generating magnon spin currents upon application of a temperature gradient:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Alexander Mook , Robin R. Neumann , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

A theoretical proposal for realizing and detecting spin supercurrent in an isotropic antiferromagnetic insulator is reported. Superfluid spin transport is achieved by inserting the antiferromagnet between two metallic reservoirs and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 So Takei , Bertrand I. Halperin , Amir Yacoby , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We derive the Onsager response matrix of fluctuation-mediated spin-collinear transport through a ferromagnetic insulator and normal metal interface driven by a temperature difference, spin accumulation, or magnetic field. We predict…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-14 Jiang Xiao , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Searching for novel spin caloric effects in antiferromagnets we study the properties of thermally activated magnons in the presence of an external spin current and temperature gradient. We predict the spin Peltier effect -- generation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Olena Gomonay , Kei Yamamoto , Jairo Sinova

We develop a theory for spin transported by coherent Neel dynamics through an antiferromagnetic insulator coupled to a ferromagnetic insulator on one side and a current-carrying normal metal with strong spin-orbit coupling on the other. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 So Takei , Takahiro Moriyama , Teruo Ono , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We theoretically explore the generation of spin current driven by a temperature gradient in a junction between a chiral insulator and a normal metal. Based on the gyromagnetic response induced by microscopic acoustic-phonon-mediated lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Naoki Nishimura , Takumi Funato , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

The interface between a ferro-/ferrimagnetic insulator and a normal metal can support spin currents polarized collinear with and perpendicular to the magnetization direction. The flow of angular momentum perpendicular to the magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 David A. Reiss , Piet W. Brouwer

The spin Seebeck effect refers to the generation of a spin voltage caused by a temperature gradient in a ferromagnet, which enables the thermal injection of spin currents from the ferromagnet into an attached nonmagnetic metal over a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hiroto Adachi , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

We study the nonequilibrium Seebeck spin transport across metal-magnetic insulator interfaces. The conjugate-converted thermal-spin transport is assisted by the exchange interaction at the interface, between conduction electrons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Jie Ren

We develop a microscopic theory of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) at the interface of a bilayer system of a ferromagnetic insulator and graphene. We compare the tunneling spin current at the interface because of the SSE and the spin pumping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Xin Hu , Yuya Ominato , Mamoru Matsuo

A theoretical formulation for spin transport through an antiferromagnetic (AF) insulator is presented in the case driven/detected by direct/inverse spin Hall effect in two heavy metal contacts. The spin signal is shown to be transferred by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Gen Tatara , Christian Ortiz Pauyac

Magnetic memory and logic devices, including prospective ones based on skyrmions, inevitably produce heat. Thus, controlling heat flow is essential for their performance. Here we study how non-collinear spin arrangement affects the magnon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-04 Margherita Parodi , Sergey Artyukhin

We theoretically investigate the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect, in which the spin current is injected from a ferromagnet into an attached nonmagnetic metal in a direction parallel to the temperature gradient. Using the fact that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-15 Hiroto Adachi , Sadamichi Maekawa

In this article we extend the currently established diffusion theory of spin-dependent electrical conduction by including spin-dependent thermoelectricity and thermal transport. Using this theory, we propose new experiments aimed at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 A. Slachter , F. L. Bakker , B. J. van Wees

Spin current injection and spin accumulation near a ferromagnetic insulator (FI)/nonmagnetic metal (NM) bilayer film under a thermal gradient is investigated theoretically. Using the Fermi golden rule and the Boltzmann equations, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Y. H. Shen , X. S. Wang , X. R. Wang

Low power spintronic devices based on the propagation of pure magnonic spin currents in antiferromagnetic insulator materials offer several distinct advantages over ferromagnetic components including higher frequency magnons and a stability…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-30 A. Ross , R. Lebrun , M. Evers , A. Deák , L. Szunyogh , U. Nowak , M. Kläui

We consider spin-polarized transport in a quantum spin Hall antidot system coupled to normal leads. Due to the helical nature of the conducting edge states, the screening potential at the dot region becomes spin dependent without external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , Minchul Lee , David Sanchez