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A theory of spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures, based on a unified semiclassical description of ballistic and diffusive transport in semiconductor structures, is developed. The aim is to provide…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Lipperheide , U. Wille

We consider spin polarized transport in a ferromagnet-insulator/semiconductor/insulator-ferromagnet (F1-I-S-I-F2) junction. We find that the spin current is strongly dependent on the spin configurations, the doping and space charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Yue Yu , Jinbin Li , S. T. Chui

The Peltier coefficient describes the amount of heat that is carried by an electrical current when it passes through a material. Connecting two materials with different Peltier coefficients causes a net heat flow towards or away from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-02 J. Flipse , F. L. Bakker , A. Slachter , F. K. Dejene , B. J. van Wees

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

Using thermal tensor-network approach, we investigate the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) of the triangular-lattice quantum antiferromagnet hosting spin supersolid phase. We focus on the low-temperature scaling behaviors of the normalized spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-17 Yuan Gao , Yixuan Huang , Sadamichi Maekawa , Wei Li

We develop a microscopic theory for the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in N\'eel and canted phases of antiferromagnetic insulators. We calculate the DC spin current tunneling from the antiferromagnet to an attached metal, incorporating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-14 Keisuke Masuda , Masahiro Sato

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

The quantum excitations of the collective magnetization dynamics in a ferromagnet (F) - magnons - enable spin transport without an associated charge current. This pure spin current can be transferred to electrons in an adjacent non-magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Akashdeep Kamra , Wolfgang Belzig

Superconductors are materials with zero electrical resistivity and the ability to expel magnetic fields known as the Meissner effect. Their dissipationless diamagnetic response is central to magnetic levitation and circuits such as quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 M. Borst , P. H. Vree , A. Lowther , A. Teepe , S. Kurdi , I. Bertelli , B. G. Simon , Y. M. Blanter , T. van der Sar

Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

Hybrid Ising superconductor-ferromagnetic insulator heterostructures provide a unique opportunity to explore the interplay between proximity-induced magnetism, spin-orbit coupling and superconductivity. Here we use a combination of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-18 Darshana Wickramaratne , Menashe Haim , Maxim Khodas , I. I. Mazin

We consider spin transport and spin relaxation in superconductors using the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. We include spin relaxation due to spin-orbit interaction as well as magnetic impurities, and show that the energy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Jan Petter Morten , Arne Brataas , Wolfgang Belzig

Spin transfers in magnetic multilayers offers a promising pathway toward ultrafast, energy-efficient spintronic devices. In this study, we investigate the interfacial spin pumping and temperature-dependent spin current exchange in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Mahammad Tahir , Swati Pandey , Sourabh Manna , Rajdeep Singh Rawat , Rohit Medwal , Soumik Mukhopadhyay

The recently observed Seebeck spin tunneling, the thermoelectric analog of spin-polarized tunneling, is described. The fundamental origin is the spin dependence of the Seebeck coefficient of a tunnel junction with at least one ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-20 R. Jansen , A. M. Deac , H. Saito , S. Yuasa

We study the role of thermal magnons in the spin and heat transport across a normal-metal/insulating-ferromagnet interface, which is beyond an elastic electronic spin transfer. Using an interfacial exchange Hamiltonian, which couples spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Scott A. Bender , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Josephson devices with ferromagnetic barriers have been widely studied. Much less is known when the ferromagnetic layer is insulating. In this manuscript we investigate the transport properties of superconductor-ferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-15 Martina Minutillo , Roberto Capecelatro , Procolo Lucignano

The magnetization of a ferromagnet (F) driven out of equilibrium injects pure spin current into an adjacent conductor (N). Such F$|$N bilayers have become basic building blocks in a wide variety of spin based devices. We evaluate the shot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-14 Akashdeep Kamra , Wolfgang Belzig

We performed temperature-dependent optical pump - THz emission measurements in Y3Fe5O12 (YIG)|Pt from 5 K to room temperature in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field. We study the temperature dependence of the spin Seebeck…

We review recent developments in nonlinear quantum transport through nanostructures and mesoscopic systems driven by thermal gradients or in combination with voltage biases. Low-dimensional conductors are excellent platforms to analyze both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

Schwinger boson mean-field theory (SBMFT) is a non-perturbative approach which treats ordered and disordered phases of magnetic systems on equal footing. We leverage its versatility to evaluate the spin correlators which determine…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-07 Derek Reitz , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak