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Recent experimental evidence points to low-energy magnons as the primary contributors to the spin Seebeck effect. This spectral dependence is puzzling since it is not observed on other thermocurrents in the same material. Here, we argue…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 I. Diniz , A. T. Costa

The impact of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) on the magnon damping in magnetic-insulator/nonmagnetic-metal bilayers was recently discussed in several reports. However, results of those experiments can be blurred by multimode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Thomas Langner , Akihiro Kirihara , Alexander A. Serga , Burkard Hillebrands , Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka

We present a theory of the Seebeck effect in nanomagnets with dimensions smaller than the spin diffusion length, showing that the spin accumulation generated by a temperature gradient strongly affects the thermopower. We also identify a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Dmitry V. Fedorov , Martin Gradhand , Katarina Tauber , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Ingrid Mertig

We develop a linear-response transport theory of diffusive spin and heat transport by magnons in magnetic insulators with metallic contacts. The magnons are described by a position dependent temperature and chemical potential that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Ludo J. Cornelissen , Kevin J. H. Peters , Rembert A. Duine , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Bart J. van Wees

We develop a theory of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in paramagnets as well as in antiferromagnets at elevated temperatures where the classical limit of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem is applicable. Employing dissipative stochastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Yutaka Yamamoto , Masanori Ichioka , Hiroto Adachi

While recent experiments on the spin Seebeck effect have revealed the decisive role of the magnon contribution to the heat current $Q$ in hybrid systems containing thin ferromagnetic layers, the available acoustic mismatch theory does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Valerij A. Shklovskij , Volodymyr V. Kruglyak , Ruslan V. Vovk , Oleksandr V. Dobrovolskiy

The propagation of magnons in temperature gradients is investigated within the framework of an atomistic spin model with the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation as underlying equation of motion. We analyze the magnon accumulation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-17 Ulrike Ritzmann , Denise Hinzke , Ulrich Nowak

The observation of the spin Seebeck effect in insulators has meant a breakthrough for spin caloritronics due to the unique ability to generate pure spin currents by thermal excitations in insulating systems without moving charge carriers.…

We have theoretically investigated the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in a normal metal (NM)/paramagnetic insulator (PI) bilayer system. Through a linear response approach, we calculated the thermal spin pumping from PI to NM and backflow spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Koichi Oyanagi , Saburo Takahashi , Takashi Kikkawa , Eiji Saitoh

A micro-patterned spin Seebeck device is fabricated using an on-chip heater. Current is driven through a Au heater layer electrically isolated from a bilayer consisting of Fe$_3$O$_4$ (insulating ferrimagnet) and a spin detector layer. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Stephen M. Wu , Frank Y. Fradin , Jason Hoffman , Axel Hoffmann , Anand Bhattacharya

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

The magnon propagation length ($\langle\xi\rangle$) of a ferro/ferrimagnet (FM) is one of the key factors that controls the generation and propagation of thermally-driven spin current in FM/heavy metal (HM) bilayer based spincaloritronic…

We present the temperature dependence of the thermal magnon density in a thin ferromagnetic layer. By employing Brillouin light scattering and varying the temperature, an increase of the magnon density accompanied by a lowering of the…

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) enables thermoelectric conversion through thermally generated spin currents in magnetic materials, offering a promising transverse geometry for scalable devices. However, conventional SSE devices are confined…

The mechanisms underlying magnon damping are of fundamental and technological interest in low-damping materials. We find low-damping ferrimagnetic insulator Li$_{0.5}$Al$_{1.0}$Fe$_{1.5}$O$_4$ (LAFO) thin films to be a promising model…

We report the nonlocal spin Seebeck effect (nlSSE) in a lateral configuration of Pt/Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$(YIG)/Pt systems as a function of the magnetic field $B$ (up to 10 T) at various temperatures $T$ (3 K < $T$ < 300 K). The nlSSE voltage…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-28 Koichi Oyanagi , Takashi Kikkawa , Eiji Saitoh

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…

The origin of the suppression of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect by applied magnetic fields is studied. We perform numerical simulations of the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation of motion for an atomistic spin model and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-16 Ulrike Ritzmann , Denise Hinzke , Andreas Kehlberger , Er-Jia Guo , Mathias Kläui , Ulrich Nowak

We present results on the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) shown by semiconducting ferrimagnetic NiFe2O4/Pt films from room temperature down to 50K base temperature. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first observation of spin…

In their Comment, Kimling and Kuschel (hereafter the commenters) challenge our original interpretation of the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) measurements using ultrasensitive Sagnac interferometer, claiming that the transverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-27 R. McLaughlin , D. Sun , C. Zhang , M. Groesbeck , Z. Valy Vardeny