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We investigate the transport of spin angular momentum and linear momentum carried by magnons in electrically insulating collinear antiferromagnets (AFs). Focusing on both transverse and longitudinal geometries, we model magnons as a viscous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Vivianne Olguín-Arias , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Roberto E. Troncoso

It is now well-established, both theoretically and experimentally, that charge transport of metals can be in a hydrodynamic regime in which frequent electron-electron collisions play a significant role. Meanwhile, recent experiments have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-18 Jun Ho Son

The spin chemical potential characterizes the tendency of spins to diffuse. Probing the spin chemical potential could provide insight into materials such as magnetic insulators and spin liquids and aid optimization of spintronic devices.…

The possibility of electrically exciting and detecting magnon currents in magnetic insulators has opened exciting perspectives for transporting spin information in electronic devices. However, the role of the magnetic field and the nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Jialiang Gao , Charles-Henri Lambert , Richard Schlitz , Manfred Fiebig , Pietro Gambardella , Saül Vélez

In ferromagnets, magnons may condense into a single quantum state. Analogous to superconductors, this quantum state may support transport without dissipation. Recent works suggest that longitudinal spin transport through a thin-film…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Hans Skarsvåg , Cecilia Holmqvist , Arne Brataas

Electrically injected and detected nonlocal magnon transport has emerged as a versatile method for transporting spin as well as probing the spin excitations in a magnetic insulator. We examine the role of drift currents in this phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Sebastián de-la-Peña , Richard Schlitz , Saül Vélez , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Akashdeep Kamra

Magnetic domain walls function as a wave guide for low energy magnons. In this paper we develop the theory for the non-local transport of these bound magnons through a ferromagnetic insulator that are injected and detected electrically in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Dion M. F. Hartmann , Andreas Rückriegel , Rembert A. Duine

This review provides a comprehensive study of the nonlinear transport properties of magnons, which are electrically emitted or absorbed inside extended YIG films by spin transfer effects via a YIG$\vert$Pt interface. Our purpose is to…

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

Departing from the conventional view on superconducting vortices as a parasitic source of dissipation for charge transport, we propose to use mobile vortices as topologically-stable information carriers for spin transport. To this end, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Se Kwon Kim , Roberto Myers , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

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

Nambu-Goldstone theorem provides gapless modes to both relativistic and nonrelativistic systems. The Nambu-Goldstone bosons in insulating magnets are called magnons or spin-waves and play a key role in magnetization transport. We review…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Kouki Nakata , Pascal Simon , Daniel Loss

We examine nonlinear transport in a viscous two-dimensional electron fluid within narrow GaAs channels. The differential magnetoresistance shows nonmonotonic behavior, a signature of electron pairing in the hydrodynamic regime. Theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov

Recent experiments observe the spin-wave-Meissner-current modes in ferromagnetic insulator-superconductor heterostructures, in which the coherently excited spin waves seemingly do not decay as usual beneath the superconductor strip [Borst…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Xi-Han Zhou , Xiyin Ye , Lihui Bai , Tao Yu

We report magnon spin transport in nickel ferrite (NiFe$_2$O$_4$, NFO)/ platinum (Pt) bilayer systems at room temperature. A nonlocal geometry is employed, where the magnons are excited by the spin Hall effect or by the Joule heating…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-14 J. Shan , P. Bougiatioti , L. Liang , G. Reiss , T. Kuschel , B. J. van Wees

The transport of spin information has been studied in various materials, such as metals, semiconductors and graphene. In these materials, spin is transported by diffusion of conduction electrons. Here we study the diffusion and relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 L. J. Cornelissen , J. Liu , R. A. Duine , J. Ben Youssef , B. J. Van Wees

Spin superfluidity, i.e., coherent spin transport mediated by topologically stable textures, is limited by parasitic anisotropies rooted in relativistic interactions and spatial inhomogeneities. Since structural disorder in amorphous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Hector Ochoa , Ricardo Zarzuela , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We theoretically study the nonlocal spin transport in a device consisting of a nonmagnetic metal (N) and ferromagnetic injector (F1) and detector (F2) electrodes connected to N. We solve the spin-dependent transport equations in a device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

Spin superfluids enable long-distance spin transport through classical ferromagnets by developing topologically stable magnetic textures. For small spins at low dimensions, however, the topological protection suffers from strong quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We discuss spin-wave transport in anisotropic ferromagnets with an emphasis on the zeroes of the band edges as a function of a magnetic field. An associated divergence of the magnon spin should be observable by enhanced magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 G. E. W. Bauer , P. Tang , M. Elyasi , Y. M. Blanter , B. J. van Wees
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