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We consider spin-polarized transport in a quantum spin Hall antidot system coupled to normal leads. Due to the helical nature of the conducting edge states, the screening potential at the dot region becomes spin dependent without external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , Minchul Lee , David Sanchez

We investigated the effect of pressure on the magnetic and thermoelectric properties of Sr$_{3.1}$Y$_{0.9}$Co$_{4}$O$_{10+\delta }$. The magnetization is reduced with the application of pressure, reflecting the spin-state modification of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-01 Hidefumi Takahashi , Shintaro Ishiwata , Ryuji Okazaki , Yukio Yasui , Ichiro Terasaki

We have studied thermally driven magnon spin transport (spin Seebeck effect, SSE) in heterostructures of antiferromagnetic $\alpha$-$\mathrm{Cr_2O_3}$ and Pt at low temperatures. Monitoring the amplitude of the local and nonlocal SSE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Prasanta Muduli , Richard Schlitz , Tobias Kosub , René Hübner , Artur Erbe , Denys Makarov , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

We propose a new type of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) emerging from the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in asymmetric four-terminal electron systems. This system generates spin currents or spin voltages along the longitudinal direction parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Jun Zhou , Biao Wang , Mengjie Li , Tsuneyoshi Nakayama , Baowen Li

In recent years, new spin-dependent thermal effects have been discovered in ferromagnets, stimulating a growing interest in spin caloritronics, a field that exploits the interaction between spin and heat currents. Amongst the most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Juan F. Sierra , Ingmar Neumann , Jo Cuppens , Bart Raes , Marius V. Costache , Sergio O. Valenzuela

We investigate the inverse spin Hall voltage of a 10nm thin Pt strip deposited on the magnetic insulators Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) and NiFe2O4 (NFO) with a temperature gradient in the film plane. We observe characteristics typical of the spin Seebeck…

Conversion of heat into a spin-current in electron doped silicon can offer a promising path for spin-caloritronics. Here we create an electron spin polarization in the conduction band of n-type silicon by producing a temperature gradient…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-17 André Dankert , Saroj P. Dash

The spin Seebeck effect is studied across a charge insulating magnetic junction, in which thermal-spin conjugate transport is assisted by the exchange interactions between the localized spin in the center and electrons in metallic leads. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Jie Ren , Jonas Fransson , Jian-Xin Zhu

A micro-patterned spin Seebeck device is fabricated using an on-chip heater. Current is driven through a Au heater layer electrically isolated from a bilayer consisting of Fe$_3$O$_4$ (insulating ferrimagnet) and a spin detector layer. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Stephen M. Wu , Frank Y. Fradin , Jason Hoffman , Axel Hoffmann , Anand Bhattacharya

We have studied thermoelectric effect of a Kane-Mele normal-insulator-superconductor (KMNIS) junction at ultra-low temperatures using a modified version of the well-known Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk (BTK) theory. Since both the (electronic)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Priyadarshini Kapri , Saurabh Basu

The increase in the resistivity with decreasing temperature followed by a drop by more than one order of magnitude is observed on the metallic side near the zero-magnetic-field metal-insulator transition in a strongly interacting…

We present analytic and numerical results for the thermoelectric effect in unconventional superconductors with a dilute random distribution of impurities, each scattering isotropically but with a phase shift intermediate between the Born…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomas Lofwander , Mikael Fogelstrom

Spincaloritronic signal generation due to thermal spin injection and spin transport is demonstrated in a non-degenerate Si spin valve. The spin-dependent Seebeck effect is used for the spincaloritronic signal generation, and the thermal…

We study the spin thermopower in the two-channel spin-1/2 Kondo model which exhibits the phenomenon of impurity spin overscreening and non-Fermi-liquid properties. While magnetic field lower than the Kondo temperature does not strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-06 Rok Zitko , Jernej Mravlje , Anton Ramsak , Tomaz Rejec

We theoretically propose a nonreciprocal spin Seebeck effect, i.e., nonreciprocal spin transport generated by a temperature gradient, in antiferromagnetic insulators with broken inversion symmetry. We find that nonreciprocity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-16 Rina Takashima , Yuki Shiomi , Yukitoshi Motome

The phenomenology of quantum phase transitions concerns physics at low temperatures and energies, and corresponding solid-state experiments often reach millikelvin temperatures. However, this is a scale where in many solids the influence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-17 Heike Eisenlohr , Matthias Vojta

We present a theory of the non-linearities of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in a ferromagnetic nanowire at cryogenic temperatures. We adopt a microscopic quantum noise model based on a collection of two-level systems. At certain positions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Mehrdad Elyasi , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Spin-momentum locking in protected surface states enables efficient electrical detection of magnon decay at a magnetic-insulator/topological-insulator heterojunction. Here we demonstrate this property using the spin Seebeck effect, i.e.…

We investigate the transport properties of a graphene layer in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Quite generally, spin-orbit interactions induce spin splittings and modifications of the graphene bandstructure. We calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 M. I. Alomar , David Sanchez

As a non-magnetic heavy metal is attached to a ferromagnet, a vertically flowing heat-driven spin current is converted to a transverse electric voltage, which is known as the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (SSE). If the ferromagnet is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yadong Xu , Bowen Yang , Chi Tang , Zilong Jiang , Michael Schneider , Renu Whig , Jing Shi