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Spin current generation through non-relativistic spin splittings, found in uncompensated magnets and d-wave altermagnets, is desirable for low-power spintronics. Such spin currents, however, are symmetry forbidden in conventional collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Sajjan Sheoran , Pratibha Dev

Photons can undergo spin-orbit coupling, by which the polarization (spin) and spatial profile (orbit) of the electromagnetic field interact and mix. Strong photonic spin-orbit coupling may reportedly arise from light propagation confined in…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-08 Chang Kyun Ha , Eun Mi Kim , Kyoung Jun Moon , Myeong Soo Kang

Modern spintronics relies on the generation of spin currents through spin-orbit coupling. The spin-current generation has been believed to be triggered by current-induced orbital dynamics, which governs the angular momentum transfer from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Hiroki Hayashi , Daegeun Jo , Dongwook Go , Tenghua Gao , Satoshi Haku , Yuriy Mokrousov , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kazuya Ando

The coherent optical injection and temporal decay of spin and charge currents in semiconductor heterostructures is described microscopically, including excitonic effects, carrier LO-phonon and carrier-carrier scattering, as well as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Huynh Thanh Duc , T. Meier , S. W. Koch

Spin-current is an important physical quantity in present day spintronics and it might be very usefull in the physics of quantum plasma of spinning particles. Thus it is important to have an equation of the spin-current evolution. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 P. A. Andreev , L. S. Kuz'menkov

Superconductors are materials with zero electrical resistivity and the ability to expel magnetic fields known as the Meissner effect. Their dissipationless diamagnetic response is central to magnetic levitation and circuits such as quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 M. Borst , P. H. Vree , A. Lowther , A. Teepe , S. Kurdi , I. Bertelli , B. G. Simon , Y. M. Blanter , T. van der Sar

A profound understanding of terahertz (THz) spin and charge currents in heterostructures involving ferromagnets (FMs) and two-dimensional (2D) materials promises emerging applications in high-speed sensing and data processing. Yet,…

The authors have investigated the contribution of the surface spin waves to spin pumping. A Pt/NiFe bilayer has been used for measuring spin waves and spin pumping signals simultaneously. The theoretical framework of spin pumping resulting…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Sankha Subhra Mukherjee , Praveen Deorani , Jae Hyun Kwon , Hyunsoo Yang

We propose a ``spin-guide'' source for generation of electric currents with a high degree of spin polarization, allowing long-distance transmission of the spin-polarization. In the spin-guide scheme proposed here, a non-magnetic conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , A. V. Yanovsky , E. N. Bogachek , Uzi Landman

Spin-orbit coupling enables charge currents to give rise to spin currents and vice versa, which has applications in non-volatile magnetic memories, miniature microwave oscillators, thermoelectric converters and Terahertz devices. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Angie Davidson , Vivek P. Amin , Wafa S. Aljuaid , Paul M. Haney , Xin Fan

This paper is concerned with a theoretical analysis of the behavior of optically excited spin currents in bilayer and multilayer systems of ferromagnetic and normal metals. As the propagation, control and manipulation of the spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 J. Briones , M. Weber , B. Stadtmüller , H. C. Schneider , B. Rethfeld

We theoretically study the spin and charge generation along with the electron transport on a disordered surface of a doped three-dimensional topological insulator/magnetic insulator junction by using Green's function techniques. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Katsuhisa Taguchi , Kunitaka Shintani , Yukio Tanaka

The evolution of a spin-wave packet trapped between two direct current-carrying wires placed on the surface of a ferrite film is observed by Brillouin light scattering. The wires act as semi-transparent mirrors confining the packet. Because…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-18 A. A. Serga , T. Neumann , A. V. Chumak , B. Hillebrands

We present a time-resolved study of the DC-current driven magnetization dynamics in a microstructured Cr/Heusler/Pt waveguide by means of Brillouin light scattering. A reduction of the effective spin-wave damping via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 T. Meyer , T. Brächer , F. Heussner , A. A. Serga , H. Naganuma , K. Mukaiyama , M. Oogane , Y. Ando , B. Hillebrands , P. Pirro

To clarify the ultrafast temporal interplay of the different photocurrent mechanisms occurring in single InAs-nanowire-based circuits, an on-chip photocurrent pump-probe spectroscopy based on coplanar striplines was utilized. The data are…

We perform 3D micromagnetic simulations of current-driven magnetization dynamics in nanoscale exchange biased spin-valves that take account of (i) back action of spin-transfer torque on the pinned layer, (ii) non-linear damping and (iii)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Siracusano , G. Finocchio , I. N. Krivorotov , L. Torres , G. Consolo , B. Azzerboni

Spin-torque oscillators are strong candidates as nano-scale microwave generators and detectors. However, because of large amplitude-phase coupling (non-linearity), phase noise is enhanced over other linear auto-oscillators. One way to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Muftah Al-Mahdawi , Yusuke Toda , Yohei Shiokawa , Masashi Sahashi

Demagnetization in a thin film due to a terahertz pulse of magnetic field is investigated. Linearized LLG equation in the Fourier space to describe the magnetization dynamics is derived, and spin waves time evolution is studied. Finally,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Valentino Scalera , Matthias Hudl , Kumar Neeraj , Salvatore Perna , Massimiliano d'Aquino , Stefano Bonetti , Claudio Serpico

Optical tools are of great promise for generation of spin waves due to the possibility to manipulate on ultrashort time scales and to provide local excitation. However, a single laser pulse can inject spin waves only with a broad frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 M. Jäckl , V. I. Belotelov , I. A. Akimov , I. V. Savochkin , D. R. Yakovlev , A. K. Zvezdin , M. Bayer

We optically generate electron spins in semiconductors and apply an external magnetic field perpendicularly to them. Time-resolved photoluminescence measurements, pumped with a circularly polarized light, are performed to study the spin…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 M. Idrish Miah