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Quite a few low-dimensional magnets are quantum-disordered ``spin liquids'' with a characteristic gap in the magnetic excitation spectrum. Among these are antiferromagnetic chains of integer quantum spins. Their generic feature are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Zheludev

Spin information carried by magnons is attractive for computing technology and the development of magnon-based computing circuits is of great interest. However, magnon transport in insulators has been challenging, different from the clear…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 X. J. Zhou , G. Y. Shi , J. H. Han , Q. H. Yang , Y. H. Rao , H. W. Zhang , L. L. Lang , S. M. Zhou , F. Pan , C. Song

Spin waves, or magnons, are fundamental excitations in magnetic materials that provide insights into their dynamic properties and interactions. Magnons are the building blocks of magnonics, which offer promising perspectives for data…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 Nihad Abuawwad , Yixuan Zhang , Samir Lounis , Hongbin Zhang

Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is a ferrimagnetic insulator valued for its high Curie temperature, very low magnetic damping, and ability to support long-range spin-wave transport. These qualities have established it as a cornerstone material in…

Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is a magnetic insulator with record-low damping, allowing spin-wave transport over macroscopic distances. Doping YIG with gallium ions greatly reduces the demagnetizing field and introduces a perpendicular magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Joris J. Carmiggelt , Olaf C. Dreijer , Carsten Dubs , Oleksii Surzhenko , Toeno van der Sar

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

Simultaneous manipulation of charge and spin density distributions in materials is the key element required in spintronics applications. Here we study the formation of coupled spin and charge densities arising in scattering of electrons by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 S. Wolski , V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman

Neutron scattering results are presented for spin-wave excitations of three ferromagnetic metallic $A_{1-x}A^{\prime}_{x}$MnO$_3$ manganites (where $A$ and $A^\prime$ are rare- and alkaline-earth ions), which when combined with previous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Ye , Pengcheng Dai , J. A. Fernandez-Baca , Hao Sha , J. W. Lynn , H. Kawano-Furukawa , Y. Tomioka , Y. Tokura , Jiandi Zhang

Low energy consumption enabled by charge-free information transport, which is free from ohmic heating, and the ability to process phase-encoded data by nanometer-sized interference devices at GHz and THz frequencies are just a few benefits…

Spintronics is concerned with replacing charge current with current of spin, the electron's intrinsic angular momentum. In magnetic insulators, spin currents are carried by magnons, the quanta of spin-wave excitations on top of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Samuel Mañas-Valero , Toeno van der Sar , Rembert A. Duine , Bart van Wees

Next-generation spintronic applications require material properties that can be hardly met by one material candidate. Here we demonstrate that by combining insulating and metallic magnets, enhanced spin-charge conversion and…

Electronic spin current is convertible to magnonic spin current via the creation or annihilation of thermal magnons at the interface of a magnetic insulator and a metal with a strong spin-orbital coupling. So far this phenomenon was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Xi-guang Wang , Zhi-xiong Li , Zhen-wei Zhou , Yao-zhuang Nie , Qing-lin Xia , Zhong-ming Zeng , L. Chotorlishvili , J. Berakdar , Guang-hua Guo

We develop a linear-response transport theory of diffusive spin and heat transport by magnons in magnetic insulators with metallic contacts. The magnons are described by a position dependent temperature and chemical potential that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Ludo J. Cornelissen , Kevin J. H. Peters , Rembert A. Duine , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Bart J. van Wees

We calculate the effects of the spin-lattice coupling on the magnon spectrum of thin ferromagnetic films consisting of the magnetic insulator yttrium-iron garnet. The magnon-phonon hybridisation generates a characteristic minimum in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-22 Andreas Rückriegel , Peter Kopietz , Dmytro A. Bozhko , Oleksandr A. Serga , Burkard Hillebrands

In ferromagnets, charge currents can excite magnons via the spin-orbit coupling. We develop a novel and general scattering theory of charge current induced macrospin magnetization torques in normal metal$|$ferromagnet$|$normal metal layers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-10 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

High-temperature superconductivity in both the copper-oxide and the iron-pnictide/chalcogenide systems occurs in close proximity to antiferromagnetically ordered states. Neutron scattering has been an essential technique for characterizing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-04 John M. Tranquada , Guangyong Xu , Igor A. Zaliznyak

Neutron scattering is a powerful tool to study magnetic structures and dynamics, benefiting from a precisely established theoretical framework. The neutron dipole moment interacts with electrons in materials via their magnetic field, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-23 Nicolas Gauthier , Victor Porée , Sylvain Petit , Vladimir Pomjakushin , Elsa Lhotel , Tom Fennell , Romain Sibille

Motivated by possible spintronics applications in antiferromagnets, it was recently observed that symmetry admits magnets that combine attractive features of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. These systems, dubbed altermagnets, have…

We study a thin film yttrium iron garnet sample that exhibits magnetic stripe domains due to a small perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Using wide-field magneto-optic Kerr effect measurements we reveal the domain pattern evolution as a…

We have carried out inelastic neutron scattering experiments to study magnetic excitations in ordered double perovskite Ca$_2$FeReO$_6$. We found a well-defined magnon mode with a bandwidth of $\sim$50meV below the ferri-magnetic ordering…