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Magnon-mediated spin transport across nonmagnetic metal (NM) and ferromagnetic insulator (FI) interface depends critically on electron-magnon coupling. We propose a novel route to enhance electron-magnon coupling dynamically from transport…

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Using wave function matching approach and employing the Landauer-Buttiker formula a ferromagnetic graphene junction with a temperature gradient across the system, is studied. We calculate the thermally induced charge and spin current as…

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Thermoelectric devices at the nanoscale offer promising routes for on-chip refrigeration and waste-heat recovery, yet most semiconductor-based implementations suffer from limited tunability and narrow operational ranges. We introduce a…

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Electric control over magnetic interactions at the level of individual spins is relevant for a variety of quantum applications, such as qubits, memory and sensor functionality. We show here that spin lattices and magnon gaps can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen , Martin Tang Bruland , Jacob Linder

Modifying the conventional antiferromagnetic spin-wave theory which is plagued by the difficulty of the zero-field sublattice magnetizations diverging in one dimension, we describe magnetic properties of Haldane-gap antiferromagnets. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shoji Yamamoto , Hiromitsu Hori

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

Nowadays, the interaction between phonon and magnon subsystems of a magnetic medium is a hot topic of research. The complexity of phonon and magnon spectra, the existence of both bulk and surface modes, the quantization effects, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 D. A. Bozhko , V. I. Vasyuchka , A. V. Chumak , A. A. Serga

We study whether a direct measurement of the absolute temperature of a Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) can be performed using the high frequency electrical noise that it delivers under a finite voltage bias. Our method includes quasi-static…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-03 Adrien Le Goff , Vladimir Nikitin , Thibaut Devolder

Excitation of magnons or spin-waves driven by nominally unpolarized transport currents in point contacts of normal and ferromagnetic metals is probed by irradiating the contacts with microwaves. Two characteristic dynamic effects are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 O. P. Balkashin , V. V. Fisun , I. K. Yanson , L. Yu. Triputen , A. Konovalenko , V. Korenivski

We report two non-degenerate magnon modes with opposite spins or chiralities in collinearly antiferromagnetic insulators driven by symmetry-governed anisotropic exchange couplings. The consequent giant spin splitting contributes to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Qirui Cui , Bowen Zeng , Tao Yu , Hongxin Yang , Ping Cui

We study the nonequilibrium Seebeck spin transport across metal-magnetic insulator interfaces. The conjugate-converted thermal-spin transport is assisted by the exchange interaction at the interface, between conduction electrons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Jie Ren

Magnons are the energy quanta of fundamental spin excitations, namely spin waves, and they can make a considerable contribution to energy transport in some magnetic materials in a similar manner as lattice vibration waves or phonons. The…

We present a theory of the spin Hall magnetoresistance of metals in contact with magnetic insulators. We express the spin-mixing conductances, which govern the phenomenology of the effect, in terms of the microscopic parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 X. P. Zhang , F. S. Bergeret , V. N. Golovach

Nambu-Goldstone theorem provides gapless modes to both relativistic and nonrelativistic systems. The Nambu-Goldstone bosons in insulating magnets are called magnons or spin-waves and play a key role in magnetization transport. We review…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Kouki Nakata , Pascal Simon , Daniel Loss

The trigonal zigzag nanodisk with size $N$ has $N$ localized spins. We investigate its thermodynamical properties with and without external leads. Leads are made of zigzag graphene nanoribbons or ordinary metallic wires. There exists a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-01 Motohiko Ezawa

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.…

Efficient electron-refrigeration based on a normal-metal/spin-filter/superconductor junction is proposed and demonstrated theoretically. The spin-filtering effect leads to values of the cooling power much higher than in conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Shiro Kawabata , Asier Ozaeta , Andrey S. Vasenko , Frank W. J. Hekking , F. Sebastian Bergeret

Nonlinear magnonics studies the nonlinear interaction between magnons and other physical platforms (phonon, photon, qubit, spin texture) to generate novel magnon states for information processing. In this tutorial, we first introduce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Shasha Zheng , Zhenyu Wang , Yipu Wang , Fengxiao Sun , Qiongyi He , Peng Yan , H. Y. Yuan

We theoretically investigate heat transport in hybrid normal metal-superconductor (NS) nanojunctions focusing on the effect of thermal rectification. We show that the heat diode effect in the junction strongly depends on the transmissivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 F. Giazotto , F. S. Bergeret

In the development of spin-based electronic devices, a particular challenge is the manipulation of the magnetic state with high speed and low power consumption. Although research has focused on the current-induced spin-orbit torque based on…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 T. H. Kim , S. H. Han , B. K. Cho