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In a magnetic texture, the spin of a conduction electron is forced to be aligned to the localized moment. As a result, the topology of the magnetic texture affects the electron dynamics in nontrivial ways. A representative example is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Hidetoshi Masuda , Takeshi Seki , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Yoichi Nii , Koki Takanashi , Yoshinori Onose

The generation of spin-orbital currents is crucial for advancing energy-efficient spintronic devices. Here, the intricate process involved in the generation and conversion of spin and orbital to charge currents in Zr(t=2, 3, 4.5, 6,…

We start closing a gap in the comparison of experimental and theoretical data associated with the spin Hall effect. Based on a first-principles characterization of electronic structure and a semiclassical description of electron transport,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Albert Hönemann , Christian Herschbach , Dmitry V. Fedorov , Martin Gradhand , Ingrid Mertig

We study theoretically the effective spin Hall properties of a composite consisting of two materials with and without spin-orbit (SO) coupling. In particular, we assume that SO material represents a system of grains in a matrix with no SO.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Z. Yue , M. C. Prestgard , A. Tiwari , M. E. Raikh

Spin Hall effect provides an efficient tool for the conversion of a charge current into a spin current, opening the possibility of producing pure spin currents in non-magnetic materials for the next generation of spintronics devices. In…

We theoretically study direct current generation in a quantum spin chain induced by spinon excitations by light irradiation. We consider a s=1/2 1D antiferromagnetic XXZ model with magnetoelectric coupling that describes multiferroics with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Ryosuke Yamashita , Shintaro Takayoshi , Takahiro Morimoto

The generation of pure spin current, spin angular momentum transport without charge flow, is crucial for developing energy-efficient spintronic devices with minimal Joule heating. Here, we introduce the intrinsic nonlinear pure spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Sayan Sarkar , Sunit Das , Amit Agarwal

The generation of time-reversal-odd spin-current in metallic altermagnets has attracted considerable interest in spintronics. However, producing pure spin-current in insulating materials remains both challenging and desirable, as insulating…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Ruizhi Dong , Ranquan Cao , Dian Tan , Ruixiang Fei

The electron spin is emerging as a new powerful tool in the electronics and optics industries. Many proposed applications involve the creation of spin currents, which so far have proven to be difficult to produce in semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. A. Fertig

Recent advances in the physics of current-driven antiferromagnetic skyrmions have observed the absence of a Magnus force. We outline the symmetry reasons for this phenomenon, and show that this cancellation will fail in the case of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Matthew W. Daniels , Weichao Yu , Ran Cheng , Jiang Xiao , Di Xiao

We search for dynamical magnetoelectric phenomena in three-dimensional correlated systems with spin-orbit coupling. We focus on the antiferromagnetic insulator phases where the dynamical axion field is realized by the fluctuation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-02 Akihiko Sekine , Kentaro Nomura

We report a theoretical study of the second harmonic generation in a noncollinearly magnetized conductive medium with equilibrium spin current. The hydrodynamic model is used to unravel the mechanism of a novel effect of the double…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-18 E. A. Karashtin , A. A. Fraerman

We investigate electrical transport in a three-dimensional massless Dirac fermion model that describes a Dirac semimetal state realized in topological materials. We derive a set of interdependent diffusion equations with eight local degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masao Ogata

Superconductors are famously capable of supporting persistent electrical currents, that is, currents that flow without any measurable decay as long as the material is kept in the superconducting state. We introduce here a class of materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-31 Kyle Monkman , Joan Weng , Niclas Heinsdorf , Alberto Nocera , Marcel Franz

In recent years, electrical spin injection and detection has grown into a lively area of research in the field of spintronics. Spin injection into a paramagnetic material is usually achieved by means of a ferromagnetic source, whereas the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-01 Sergio O. Valenzuela

Spin current offers a promising route toward energy-efficient and high-speed information processing. Developing efficient methods for their generation remains a central challenge in spintronics. Here, we investigate spin current generation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Aoi Kajihara , Shun Okumura , Yukitoshi Motome

Spin photogalvanic effect (SPGE) is an efficient method to generate a spin current by photoexcitation in a contactless and ultra-fast way. In two-dimensional (2D) collinear antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials that preserve the combined…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-19 Rui-Chun Xiao , Ding-Fu Shao , Yu-Hang Li , Hua Jiang

We demonstrate that weak external magnetic fields generate dissipationless spin currents in the ground state of systems with spiral magnetic order. Our conclusions are based on phenomenological considerations and on microscopic mean-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Heurich , Jürgen König , A. H. MacDonald

The spin-splitter effect is theoretically predicted to generate an unconventional spin current with $\mathit{x}$- and $\mathit{z}$- spin polarization via the spin-split band in antiferromagnets. The generated torque, namely spin-splitter…

Spin current, i.e. the flow of spin angular momentum or magnetic moment, has recently attracted much attention as the promising alternative for charge current with better energy efficiency. Genuine spin current is generally carried by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 S. Seki , Y. Okamura , K. Kondou , K. Shibata , M. Kubota , R. Takagi , F. Kagawa , M. Kawasaki , G. Tatara , Y. Otani , Y. Tokura