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When a magnetic material hosts spin-wave excitations, or magnons, the local magnetization can rotate in circular or elliptical orbits, the latter arising naturally in the presence of magnetic anisotropies transverse to the equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Nicolas Vidal-Silva , Alejandro O. Leon

The scalar spin chirality (SSC), defined as a triple product of spins, is essential for describing noncoplanar spin structures and understanding chiral physics in magnetic systems. Traditionally, SSC has been discussed primarily in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Nanse Esaki , Gyungchoon Go , Se Kwon Kim

Rigidity of an ordered phase in condensed matter results in collective excitation modes spatially extending in macroscopic dimensions. Magnon is a quantum of an elementary excitation in the ordered spin system, such as ferromagnet. Being…

Forecasting complex, chaotic signals is a central challenge across science and technology, with implications ranging from secure communications to climate modeling. Here we demonstrate that magnons - the collective spin excitations in…

We investigate the nonequilibrium spin polarization due to a temperature gradient in antiferromagnetic insulators, which is the magnonic analogue of the inverse spin-galvanic effect of electrons. We derive a linear response theory of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Bo Li , Alexander Mook , Aldo Raeliarijaona , Alexey A. Kovalev

In this work, we present recent developments in magnonic holographic memory devices exploiting spin waves for information transfer. The devices comprise a magnetic matrix and spin wave generating/detecting elements placed on the edges of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 F. Gertz , A. Kozhevnikov , Y. Filimonov , D. E. Nikonov , A. Khitun

Spintronics is the generic term that describes magnetic systems coupled to an electric generator, taking into account the spin attached to the charge carriers. For this topical review of {\it Spin Caloritronics}, we focus our attention on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. -E. Wegrowe

In spin caloritronics, a branch of spintronics, the spin degree of freedom is exploited for thermoelectric conversion and thermal transport. Since the inception of spin caloritronics, many experimental and theoretical studies have focused…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-04 Ken-ichi Uchida , Ryo Iguchi

Magnetic oscillations in strongly correlated insulating systems have garnered interest due to oscillations seemingly originating from the bulk, despite an anticipated gapped spectrum. We use the large-$N$ mean-field theory to study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-04 Kaize Wang , Yang Ge , Yashar Komijani

Magnonic topological phases realize chiral edge spin waves that are protected against backscattering, potentially enabling highly efficient spin transport. Here we show that the spin transport through these magnonic chiral edge states can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Pieter M. Gunnink , Rembert A. Duine , Alexander Mook

Magnon band structures in altermagnets are characterized by an energy splitting of modes with opposite chirality, even in the absence of applied external fields and relativistic effects, due to an anisotropy in the Heisenberg exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-03 Markus Weißenhofer , Alberto Marmodoro

Magnonics is a rapidly developing subfield of spintronics, which deals with devices and circuits that utilize spin currents carried by magnons - quanta of spin waves. Magnon current, i.e. spin waves, can be used for information processing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 S. Rumyantsev , M. Balinskiy , F. Kargar , A. Khitun , A. A. Balandin

Topological insulators insulate in the bulk but exhibit robust conducting edge states protected by the topology of the bulk material. Here, we design a colloidal topological insulator and demonstrate experimentally the occurrence of edge…

We investigate the spin transport properties of a topological magnon insulator, a magnetic insulator characterized by topologically nontrivial bulk magnon bands and protected magnon edge modes located in the bulk band gaps. Employing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Andreas Rückriegel , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

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.…

Spin electronics (spintronics) exploits the magnetic nature of the electron, and is commercially exploited in the spin valves of disc-drive read heads. There is currently widespread interest in using industrially relevant semiconductors in…

Magnetic insulators, such as yttrium iron garnet (Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$), are ideal materials for ultra-low power spintronics applications due to their low energy dissipation and efficient spin current generation and transmission. Recently,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-05 Matthias B. Jungfleisch , Junjia Ding , Wei Zhang , Wanjun Jiang , John E. Pearson , Valentine Novosad , Axel Hoffmann

The interaction between lattice and spins is at the heart of an extremely intriguing ultrafast dynamics in magnetic materials. In this work we formulate a general non-equilibrium theory that disentangles the complex interplay between them…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-31 Pablo Maldonado , Yaroslav O. Kvashnin

Magnon spintronics is a prosperous field that promises beyond-CMOS technology based on elementary excitations of the magnetic order that act as information carriers for future computational architectures. Unidirectional propagation of spin…

The spontaneous magnetic orders arising in ferro-, ferri- and antiferromagnets stem from various magnetic interactions. Depending on the interplay and competition among the Heisenberg exchange interaction, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Haiming Yu , Jiang Xiao , Helmut Schultheiss