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Magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) are among the prominent platforms for the next generation of high-speed and low-power spintronic devices. However, unlike their non-magnetic counterparts, where the surface spin-momentum locking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Amir Sabzalipour , Mohammad Shafiei , Milorad V. Milošević

Spin currents can be generated through various mechanisms, including the piezospintronic effect, which arises when strain or lattice distortions induce a change in the dipolar spin moment, causing a pure spin current without necessarily…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Martin Latorre , Gaspar De la Barrera , Roberto E. Troncoso , Alvaro S. Nunez

An impressive success of spintronic applications has been typically realized in metal-based structures which utilize magnetoresistive effects for substantial improvements in the performance of computer hard drives and magnetic random access…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , Steven C. Erwin

Topological magnons, quantized spin waves featuring nontrivial boundary modes, present a promising route toward lossless information processing. Realizing practical devices typically requires magnons excited in a controlled manner to enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xueqing Wan , Quanchao Du , Jinlian Lu , Zhenlong Zhang , Jinyang Ni , Lei Zhang , Zhijun Jiang , Laurent Bellaiche

There is a renewed interest to study spin-polarized transport and spin dynamics in various electronic materials. The motivation to examine the spin degrees of freedom (mostly in electrons, but also in holes and nuclei) comes from various…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Zutic

Spin-based electronics has evolved into a major field of research that broadly encompasses different classes of materials, magnetic systems, and devices. This review describes recent advances in spintronics that have the potential to impact…

Spin pumping has significant implications for spintronics, providing a mechanism to manipulate and transport spins for information processing. Understanding and harnessing spin currents through spin pumping is critical for the development…

We report on the injection of quantized pure spin current into quantum conductors. In particular, we propose an on demand single spin source generated by periodically varying the gate voltages of two quantum dots that are connected to a two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Yanxia Xing , Zhong-liu Yang , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

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

Using a pure electric current to control kagome noncollinear antiferromagnets is promising in information storage and processing, but a full description is still lacking, in particular, on intrinsic (i.e., no external magnetic fields or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Yiyuan Chen , Z. Z. Du , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Magnetic insulators are promising materials for the development of energy-efficient spintronics. Unlike metallic counterparts, the magnetic insulators are characterized by imaginary part of the interfacial spin mixing conductance as well in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Kuntal Roy

Antiferromagnetic materials feature intrinsic ultrafast spin dynamics, making them ideal candidates for future magnonic devices operating at THz frequencies. A major focus of current research is the investigation of optical methods for the…

Electrical manipulation of spin textures inside antiferromagnets represents a new opportunity for developing spintronics with superior speed and high device density. Injecting spin currents into antiferromagnets and realizing efficient…

Storing, transmitting, and manipulating information using the electron spin resides at the heart of spintronics. Fundamental for future spintronics applications is the ability to control spin currents in solid state systems. Among the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabrizio Nichele , Szymon Hennel , Patrick Pietsch , Werner Wegscheider , Peter Stano , Philippe Jacquod , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

The generation of pure spin currents is critical for low-dissipation spintronic applications, yet existing methods relying on spin-orbit coupling or ferromagnetic interfaces face challenges in material compatibility and operational…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-14 Yingwei Chen , Junyi Ji , Liangliang Hong , Xiangang Wan , Hongjun Xiang

Topological insulators are candidates to open up a novel route in spin based electronics. Different to traditional ferromagnetic materials, where the carrier spin-polarization and magnetization are based on the exchange interaction, the…

Molecular spintronics is made possible by the coupling between electronic configuration and magnetic po- larization of the molecules. For control and application of the individual molecular states it is necessary to both read and write…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 T. Saygun , J. Bylin , H. Hammar , J. Fransson

We investigate the spin injection and the spin transport in paramagnetic insulators described by simple Heisenberg interactions using auxiliary particle methods. Some of these methods allow access to both paramagnetic states above magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-23 Satoshi Okamoto

A central goal in spintronics and magnonics is the use of spin waves rather than electrons for efficient information processing. The key to integrate such spintronic circuits with electronic circuits is the ability to inject, control and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 J. S. Harms , H. Y. Yuan , Rembert A. Duine

Spin accumulation is a crucial but imprecise concept in spintronics. In metal-based spintronics it is characterized in terms of semiclassical distribution functions. In semiconductors with a strong spin-orbit coupling the spin accumulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-10 Henri Saarikoski , Gerrit E. W. Bauer