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We derive thermomagnonic torque and its "$\beta$-type" dissipative correction from the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. The "$\beta$-type" dissipative correction describes viscous coupling between magnetic dynamics and magnonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alexey A. Kovalev

We investigate spin transport by thermally excited spin waves in an antiferromagnetic insulator. Starting from a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology, we obtain the out-of-equilibrium spin-wave properties. In linear response to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Scott A. Bender , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

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

The spin-Seebeck effect refers to voltage signals induced in metals by thermally driven spin currents in adjacent magnetic systems. We present a theory of the spin-Seebeck signal in the case where the conductor that supports the voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Nobuyuki Okuma , Massoud Ramezani Masir , Allan H. MacDonald

Using the spin Seebeck effect (SSE), we study the propagation distance of thermal spin currents inside a magnetic insulator thin film in the short-range regime. We disambiguate spin currents driven by temperature and chemical potential…

We evaluated the thermoelectric properties of longitudinal spin Seebeck devices by using ten different transition metals (TMs). Both the intensity and sign of spin Seebeck coefficients were noticeably dependent on the degree of the inverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-14 M. Ishida , A. Kirihara , H. Someya , K. Uchida , S. Kohmoto , E. Saitoh , T. Murakami

The spin-resolved thermoelectric transport properties of correlated nanoscale junctions, consisting of a quantum dot/molecule asymmetrically coupled to external ferromagnetic contacts, are studied theoretically in the far-from-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Anand Manaparambil , Ireneusz Weymann

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

We investigate the spin Seebeck effect and spin pumping in a junction between a ferromagnetic insulator and a magnetic impurity deposited on a normal metal. By the numerical renormalization group calculation, we show that spin current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Takeo Kato , Mamoru Matsuo

Using analytical arguments and the numerical renormalization group method we investigate the spin-thermopower of a quantum dot in a magnetic field. In the particle-hole symmetric situation the temperature difference applied across the dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 Tomaz Rejec , Rok Zitko , Jernej Mravlje , Anton Ramsak

It has been proposed that paramagnetic materials exhibit a unique thermoelectric effect near the ferromagnetic transition point due to spin fluctuations. This phenomenon is often referred to as paramagnon drag. We calculate the contribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-12 Junya Endo , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Masao Ogata

Thermally-driven spin-transfer torques have recently been reported in electrically insulating ferromagnet$|$normal-metal heterostructures. In this paper, we propose two physically distinct mechanisms for such torques. The first is a local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Scott A. Bender , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We study the charge and spin Seebeck effects in a spin-1 molecular junction as a function of temperature (T), applied magnetic field (H), and magnetic anisotropy (D) using Wilson's numerical renormalization group. A hard-axis magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-26 Pablo S. Cornaglia , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

Understanding the transfer of spin angular momentum is essential in modern magnetism research. A model case is the generation of magnons in magnetic insulators by heating an adjacent metal film. Here, we reveal the initial steps of this…

A time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory is used to examine the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in a simple ferromagnet in the vicinity of the Curie temperature Tc. It is shown analytically that the spin Seebeck effect is proportional to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hiroto Adachi , Yutaka Yamamoto , Masanori Ichioka

We formulate a linear response theory of the spin Seebeck effect, i.e., a spin voltage generation from heat current flowing in a ferromagnet. Our approach focuses on the collective magnetic excitation of spins, i.e., magnons. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hiroto Adachi , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

Here we report on measurements of the spin-Seebeck effect of GaMnAs over an extended temperature range alongside the thermal conductivity, specific heat, magnetization, and thermoelectric power. The amplitude of the spin-Seebeck effect in…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 C. M. Jaworski , J. Yang , S. Mack , D. D. Awschalom , R. C. Myers , J. P. Heremans

Searching for novel spin caloric effects in antiferromagnets we study the properties of thermally activated magnons in the presence of an external spin current and temperature gradient. We predict the spin Peltier effect -- generation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Olena Gomonay , Kei Yamamoto , Jairo Sinova

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

We develop a low-temperature, long-wavelength theory for the interfacial spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in easy-axis antiferromagnets. The field-induced spin-flop (SF) transition of N\'eel order is associated with a qualitative change in SSE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Derek Reitz , Junxue Li , Wei Yuan , Jing Shi , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak