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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

The interplay between spin and heat currents at magnetic insulator|nonmagnetic metal interfaces has been a subject of much scrutiny because of both fundamental physics and the promise for technological applications. While ferrimagnetic and,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 Benedetta Flebus , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gregory A. Fiete

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 spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in ferrimagnetic insulators (FMI) provides a simple method of using heat to manipulate magnons, which could be used as carriers of information and energy conversion. However, a theory that can quantitively…

Magnons are the energy quanta of fundamental spin excitations, namely spin waves, and they can make a considerable contribution to energy transport in some magnetic materials in a similar manner as lattice vibration waves or phonons. The…

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

Controlling magnon densities in magnetic materials enables driving spin transport in magnonic devices. We demonstrate the creation of large, out-of-equilibrium magnon densities in a thin-film magnetic insulator via microwave excitation of…

Nambu-Goldstone theorem provides gapless modes to both relativistic and nonrelativistic systems. The Nambu-Goldstone bosons in insulating magnets are called magnons or spin-waves and play a key role in magnetization transport. We review…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Kouki Nakata , Pascal Simon , Daniel Loss

One of the main goals of spintronics is to improve transport of information carriers and to achieve new functionalities with ultra-low dissipation. A most promising strategy for this holy grail is to use pure magnon currents created and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Kouki Nakata , Pascal Simon , Daniel Loss

The current theoretical and experimental situations are reviewed for low-dimensional insulating systems with a low magnetic transition temperature TM and pronounced short-range magnetic order above this temperature. Both the standard and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-09-18 A A Katanin , V Yu Irkhin

Magnetic noise spectroscopy provides a noninvasive probe of spin dynamics in magnetic materials. We consider two-dimensional magnetically ordered insulators with magnon excitations, especially those supporting long-distance magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Haocheng Fang , Shu Zhang , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Magnons, as the most elementary excitations of magnetic materials, have recently emerged as a prominent tool in electrical and thermal manipulation and transport of spin, and magnonics as a field is considered as one of the pillars of…

Present information and communication technologies are largely based on electronic devices, which suffer from heat generation and high power consumption. Alternatives like spintronics and magnonics, which harness the spin degree of freedom,…

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

Exploring new strategies to perform magnon logic is a key requirement for the further development of magnon-based spintronics. In this work, we realize a three-terminal magnon transport device to study the possibility of manipulating…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-07 Joel Cramer , Lorenzo Baldrati , Andrew Ross , Mehran Vafaee , Romain Lebrun , Mathias Kläui

Spin insulatronics covers efforts to generate, detect, control, and utilize high-fidelity pure spin currents and excitations inside magnetic insulators. Ultimately, the new findings may open doors for pure spin-based information and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Arne Brataas , Bart van Wees , Olivier Klein , Gregoire de Loubens , Michel Viret

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

Conversion of thermal energy into magnonic spin currents and/or effective electric polarization promises new device functionalities. A versatile approach is presented here for generating and controlling open circuit magnonic spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Xi-guang Wang , L. Chotorlishvili , Guang-hua Guo , J. Berakdar

Spin waves (or magnons) interact with magnetic domain walls (DWs) in a complicated way that a DW can propagate either along or against magnon flow. However, thermally activated magnons always drive a DW to the hotter region of a nanowire of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 X. S. Wang , X. R. Wang

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