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We report a systematic study of spin transport in antiferromagnetic (AF) insulators having a wide range of ordering temperatures. Spin current is dynamically injected from Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) into various AF insulators in Pt/insulator/YIG…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-16 Hailong Wang , Chunhui Du , P. Chris Hammel , Fengyuan Yang

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

Using one of the methods of quantum nonequilibrium statistical physics we have investigated the spin transport transverse to the normal metal/ferromagnetic insulator interface in hybrid nanostructures. An approximation of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. I. Lyapilin , M. S. Okorokov , V. V. Ustinov

Spin transport of magnonic excitations in uniaxial insulating antiferromagnets (AFs) is investigated. In linear response to spin biasing and a temperature gradient, the spin transport properties of normal-metal--insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Roberto E. Troncoso , Scott A. Bender , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

We investigate spin transport through metallic antiferromagnets using measurements based on spin pumping combined with inverse spin Hall effects in Ni80Fe20/FeMn/W trilayers. The relatively large magnitude and opposite sign of spin Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-10 H. Saglam , W. Zhang , M. B. Jungfleisch , J. Sklenar , J. E. Pearson , J. B. Ketterson , A. Hoffmann

Spintronics uses spins, the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, as an alternative for the electron charge. Its long-term goal is in the development of beyond-Moore low dissipation technology devices. Recent progress demonstrated the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-14 R. Lebrun , A. Ross , S. A. Bender , A. Qaiumzadeh , L. Baldrati , J. Cramer , A. Brataas , R. A. Duine , M. Kläui

For prospective spintronics devices based on the propagation of pure spin currents, antiferromagnets are an interesting class of materials that potentially entail a number of advantages as compared to ferromagnets. Here, we present a…

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

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

In an antiferromagnet (AF) with uniaxial anisotropy, spin-up and spin-down magnons coexist and form an intrinsic degree of freedom resembling electrons. When polarized by an adjacent ferromagnet (F), a magnonic pure spin current can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Ran Cheng , Di Xiao , Jian-Gang Zhu

In this work, we theoretically study the magnon spin transport in easy-plane antiferromagnetic insulators in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. By exactly calculating the magnon spectrum, we find the band splitting due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Ka Shen

Antiferromagnetic insulators can become active spintronics components by controlling and detecting their dynamics via spin currents in adjacent metals. This cross-talk occurs via spin-transfer and spin-pumping, phenomena that have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Arne Brataas , Hans Skarsvåg , Erlend G. Tveten , Eirik Løhaugen Fjærbu

Angular momentum transport in magnetic multilayered structures plays a central role in spintronic physics and devices. The angular momentum currents or spin currents are carried by either quasi-particles such as electrons and magnons, or by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-04 Kai Chen , Weiwei Lin , C. L. Chien , Shufeng Zhang

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

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

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

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

When charge current passes through a normal metal that exhibits spin Hall effect, spin accumulates at the edge of the sample in the transverse direction. We predict that this spin accumulation, or spin voltage, enables quantum tunneling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist , Dirk Manske

Motivated by the recent observation of giant room-temperature magnon spin conductivity in an ultrathin ferromagnetic insulator [X.-Y. Wei et al., Nat. Mater. 21, 1352 (2022)], we investigate thickness-dependent magnon spin transport in thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Mathias Åsan Myhre , Verena Brehm , Thomas Delvaux , Arne Brataas , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Antiferromagnetic insulators (AFMI) are robust against stray fields, and their intrinsic dynamics could enable ultrafast magneto-optics and ultrascaled magnetic information processing. Low dissipation, long distance spin transport and…

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