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The Photon Drag Effect (PDE) is a nonlinear process akin to optical rectification in which the momentum of light is transferred to charged carriers and converted to a DC voltage. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the spin-polarized…

Spin currents can be generated on an ultrafast timescale by excitation of a ferromagnetic (FM) thin film with a femtosecond laser-pulse. Recently, it has been demonstrated that these ultrafast spin currents can transport angular momentum to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Mark L. M. Lalieu , Paul L. J. Helgers , Bert Koopmans

The two-dimensional (2D) bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) is a cornerstone for future highly efficient 2D solar cells and optoelectronics. The ferromagnetic semiconductor 2H-FeCl2 is shown to realize a new type of BPVE in which spatial…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-16 Liang Liu , Xiaolin Li , Luping Du , Xi Zhang

Non-collinear antiferromagnets (nAFMs) with a small net magnetic moment offer new opportunities for ultrafast spintronic devices, owing to unique physical properties. While in ferromagnets and collinear AFMs the spin current polarization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Ping Tang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Dirac semimetals are expected to forbid the manifestation of the circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) because of their crystal inversion symmetry. Here, we report the observation of the CPGE in Cd3As2 nanobelt field effect transistors, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Bob Minyu Wang , Yuqing Zhu , Henry Clark Travaglini , Sergey Y. Savrasov , Dong Yu

We study the refraction effect of electronic wave in hole-doped lateral heterojunctions of metallic and semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers. This effect is theoretically investigated in 2$H$-type MoSe$_2$-NbS$_2$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Tetsuro Habe

The competition between spin glass (SG), antiferromagnetism (AF) and Kondo effect is studied here in a model which consists of two Kondo sublattices with a gaussian random interaction between spins in differents sublattices with an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 S. G. Magalhaes , A. A. Schmidt , F. M. Zimmer , Alba Theumann , B. Coqblin

Surface plasmons are the collective electron excitations in metallic systems and the associated electromagnetic wave usually has the transverse magnetic (TM) polarization. On the other hand, spin waves are the spin excitations perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 H. Y. Yuan , Yaroslav M. Blanter , H. Q. Lin

Spin thermo-electric phenomena have attracted wide attention recently, e.g. the Spin Peltier effect (SPE) heat generation by magnonic spin currents. Here we find that the Spin Peltier ef-fect also manifests as a heat wave accompanying fast…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 Rubén M. Otxoa , Unai Atxitia , Pierre E. Roy , Oksana Chubykalo Fesenko

A scannable laser beam is used to generate local thermal gradients in metallic (Co2FeAl) or insulating (Y3Fe5O12) ferromagnetic thin films. We study the resulting local charge and spin currents that arise due to the anomalous Nernst effect…

In a PN junction, the separation between positive and negative charges leads to diode transport. In the past few years, the intrinsic diode transport in noncentrosymmetric polar conductors has attracted great interest, because it suggests…

Ferrimagnets containing several partially compensated magnetic sublattices are considered the most promising materials for all-optical data storage and for ultrafast communications based on spin waves. There are two magnetic phases of the…

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…

In this paper we theoretically describe a distinct class of two-dimensional N\'{e}el ordered metallic antiferromagnets on a honeycomb-like lattice in which the two sublattices are connected only by a combination of time-reversal and mirror…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Vladimir A. Zyuzin

Generating and controlling spin current in miniaturized magnetic quantum devices remains a central objective of spintronics, due to its potential to enable future energy-efficient information technologies. Among the existing magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-22 Fanxian Pei , Run-Wu Zhang , Lei Li , Dan Li , Yugui Yao

We have found that surface superstructures made of "monolayer alloys" of Tl and Pb on Si(111), having giant Rashba effect, produce non-reciprocal spin-polarized photocurrent via circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) by obliquely shining…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-07 Ibuki Taniuchi , Ryota Akiyama , Rei Hobara , Shuji Hasegawa

Our world is composed of various materials with different structures, where spin structures have been playing a pivotal role in spintronic devices of the contemporary information technology. Apart from conventional collinear spin materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Peixin Qin , Han Yan , Xiaoning Wang , Zexin Feng , Huixin Guo , Xiaorong Zhou , Haojiang Wu , Xin Zhang , Zhaoguogang Leng , Hongyu Chen , Zhiqi Liu

Topological magnons emerge as topologically protected spin wave states at the edges of magnets. Here, we theoretically explore how these surface states can be harnessed to amplify the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in antiferromagnets (AFMs)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Feodor Svetlanov Konomaev , Kjetil M. D. Hals

Second-order nonlinear optical responses, including photogalvanic effect (PGE) and second harmonic generation (SHG), are important physical phenomena in nonlinear optics. The PGE (SHG) related to linearly and circularly polarized light are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Yuan Liu , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

Spin currents offer a way to control static and dynamic magnetic properties, and therefore they are crucial for next-generation MRAM devices or spin-torque oscillators. Manipulating the dynamics is especially interesting within the context…