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All-optical generation of pure spin current -- the flow of spin in the absence of a corresponding charge flow -- relies on a symmetry based compensation of valley charge. The 2d $d$-wave altermagnets, ideal spintronics materials due to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-15 Deepika Gill , Ruikai Wu , Peter Elliott , Sangeeta Sharma , Sam Shallcross

Spin waves propagating through a stripe domain structure and reservoir computing with their spin dynamics have been numerically studied with focusing on the relation between physical phenomena and computing capabilities. Our system utilizes…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Ryosho Nakane , Akira Hirose , Gouhei Tanaka

Spin waves, the collective excitations of the magnetic order parameter, and magnons, the associated quasiparticles, are envisioned as possible data carriers in future wave-based computing architectures. On the road towards spin-wave…

Magnetization behavior of long nanowires with square cross-section under influence of strong perpendicular spin-polarized current is studied theoretically. The study is based on Landau-Lifshitz-Slonczewski phenomenology. In the no current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Oleksii M. Volkov , Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei

Recent advances in magnonics highlight the need for employing spin wave characteristics as new state variables, which is to be detected and mapped out with high precision in all-onchip, small scale devices. Spin wave modes that are prompted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Junming Wu , Dinesh Wagle , Yuzan Xiong , Andrew Christy , Yi Li , Shihao Zhou , James F. Cahoon , Xufeng Zhang , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch , Wei Zhang

Spin-transfer torque and current induced spin dynamics in spin-valve nanopillars with the free magnetic layer located between two magnetic films of fixed magnetic moments is considered theoretically. The spin-transfer torque in the limit of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 Pavel Balaz , Martin Gmitra , Jozef Barnas

Magnetization dynamics in nanomagnets has attracted broad interest since it was predicted that a dc-current flowing through a thin magnetic layer can create spin-wave excitations. These excitations are due to spin-momentum transfer, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-25 F. Macià , A. D. Kent , F. C. Hoppensteadt

Engineering and controlling heat and spin transport on the femtosecond time-scale in spintronic devices opens up new ways to manipulate magnetization with unprecedented speed. Yet the underlying reversal mechanisms remain poorly understood…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Harjinder Singh , Alberto Anadón , Junta Igarashi , Quentin Remy , Stéphane Mangin , Michel Hehn , Jon Gorchon , Gregory Malinowski

We present a finite-difference micromagnetic approach for determining the normal modes of spin-waves propagating in extended magnetic films and strips, which is based on the linearized Landau-Lifshitz equation and uses the dynamic matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Yves Henry , Olga Gladii , Matthieu Bailleul

The optical generation of nonequilibrium spin magnetization plays a crucial role in advancing spintronics, providing ultrafast control of magnetization dynamics without the need for magnetic fields. Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Sayan Sarkar , Sunit Das , Debottam Mandal , Amit Agarwal

The demonstration of the generation and control of a pure spin current (without net charge flow) by electric fields and/or temperature gradient has been an essential leap in the quest for low-power consumption electronics. The key issue of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Chenglong Jia , Jamal Berakdar

Controlling the directionality of spin waves is a key ingredient in wave-based computing methods such as magnonics. In this paper, we demonstrate this particular aspect by using an all-optical point-like source of continuous spin waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 S. Muralidhar , R. Khymyn , A. A. Awad , A. Alemán , D. Hanstorp , J. Åkerman , .

In a typical experiment in magnonics, thin films are magnetized in-plane and spin waves only carry angular momentum along their spatial propagation direction. Motivated by the experiments of Bozhko et al. [Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023324…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Pieter M. Gunnink , Rembert A. Duine , Andreas Rückriegel

We construct a novel scattering theory to investigate magnetoelectrically induced spin polarizations. Local spin polarizations generated by electric currents passing through a spin-orbit coupled mesoscopic system are measured by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ph. Jacquod

We demonstrate that spin current can be generated by an ac voltage in a one-channel quantum wire with strong repulsive electron interactions in the presence of a non-magnetic impurity and uniform static magnetic field. In a certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Bernd Braunecker , D. E. Feldman , Feifei Li

We demonstrate sustained coherent emission of spin waves in NiFe films using rapid demagnetization from high repetition rate femtosecond laser pulse trains. As the pulse separation is shorter than the magnon decay time, magnons having a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 A. A. Awad , S. Muralidhar , A. Alemán , R. Khymyn , M. Dvornik , D. Hanstorp , J. Åkerman

Spin-motive force, i.e., the electric current induced by magnetization dynamics, is theoretically studied beyond the Thouless-pump paradigm. In contrast to the linear-response regime, where the induced current is purely AC, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Tomonari Meguro , Hiroaki Ishizuka , Kentaro Nomura

Scattering theory is employed to derive a Landauer-type formula for the spin and the charge currents, through a finite region where spin-orbit interactions are effective. It is shown that the transmission matrix yields the spatial direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. Tokura , Y. Avishai

Traveling spin waves in magnonic waveguides undergo severe attenuation, which tends to result in a finite propagation length of spin waves, even in magnetic materials with the accessible lowest damping constant, heavily restricting the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Xiangjun Xing , T. Wang , Yan Zhou

The excitation of high-frequency short-wavelength spin waves is a challenge limiting the application of these propagating magnetization disturbances in information processing systems. We propose a method of local excitation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Pawel Gruszecki , Igor L. Lyubchanskii , Konstantin Y. Guslienko , Maciej Krawczyk