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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…

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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 predict that the magnetization direction of a ferromagnet can be reversed by the spin-transfer torque accompanying spin-polarized thermoelectric heat currents. We illustrate the concept by applying a finite-element theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Moosa Hatami , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Qinfang Zhang , Paul J. Kelly

Spintronics, a transformative field of research, leverages the spin of electron to revolutionize electronic devices, offering significant advantages over traditional charge-based systems. This chapter highlights the critical role of novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-03 A. Sud , A. Kumar , M. Cubukcu

All-solid-state nanoscale devices capable of efficiently controlling a heat flow are crucial for advanced thermal management technologies. Here we predict a magnon-driven magnetothermal resistance (mMTR) effect in multilayers of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Ping Tang , Ken-ichi Uchida , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Hexagonal MnTe emerges as a critical component in designing magnetic quantum heterostructures, calling for a detailed study. After finding a suitable combination of exchange-correlation functional and corrections, our study within {\em ab…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-30 Suman Rooj , Jayita Chakraborty , Nirmal Ganguli

The hexagonal antiferromagnet MnTe has attracted enormous interest as a prototypical example of a spin-compensated magnet in which the combination of crystal and spin symmetries lifts the spin degeneracy of the electron bands without the…

Spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) are promising candidates for low-power spin-based electronics, yet existing realizations that rely on spin-orbit coupling are constrained by limited material choices and short spin-coherence lengths.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Ziye Zhu , Xianzhang Chen , Xunkai Duan , Zhou Cui , Jiayong Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

We study in this paper the parallel spin current in an antiferromagnetic semiconductor thin film where we take into account the interaction between itinerant spins and lattice spins. The spin model is an anisotropic Heisenberg model. We use…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-30 K. Akabli , Yann Magnin , Masataka Oko , Isao Harada , Hung The Diep

Tin chalcogenides (SnS, SnSe, and SnTe) are found to have improved thermoelectric properties upon the reduction of their dimensionality. Here we found the tilted AA + s stacked two-dimensional (2D) SnTe bilayer as the most stable phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-10 Abhiyan Pandit , Raad Haleoot , Bothina Hamad

In this article we extend the currently established diffusion theory of spin-dependent electrical conduction by including spin-dependent thermoelectricity and thermal transport. Using this theory, we propose new experiments aimed at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 A. Slachter , F. L. Bakker , B. J. van Wees

We predict parametrically strong enhancement of the thermoelectric effect in metallic bilayers consisting of two superconductors separated by a spin-active interface. The physical mechanism for such an enhancement is directly related to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-04-03 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We microscopically analyze thermal spin pumping mediated by magnons, at the interface between a ferromagnetic insulator and a non-magnetic metal, in the semiclassical regime. The generation of a spin current is discussed by calculating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Kouki Nakata

Thermal conductivity, a fundamental parameter characterizing thermal transport in solids, is typically determined by electron and phonon transport. Although other transport properties including electrical conductivity and thermoelectric…

Following demands for materials with peculiar transport properties, e.g. in magnetoelectronics or thermoelectrics, there is a need for materials modeling at the quantum-mechanical level. We combine density-functional with various…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-02 Peter Kratzer , Vladimir M. Fomin , B. Hülsen , M. Scheffler

We theoretically investigate laser-induced spin transport in metallic magnetic heterostructures using an effective spin transport description that treats itinerant electrons and thermal magnons on an equal footing. Electron-magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Maarten Beens , Rembert A. Duine , Bert Koopmans

We present a theory of carrier-induced ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors (III_{1-x} Mn_x V) which allows for arbitrary itinerant-carrier spin polarization and dynamic correlations. Both ingredients are essential in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jürgen König , Hsiu-Hau Lin , Allan H. MacDonald

Ferromagnets are key materials for sensing and memory applications. In contrast, antiferromagnets that represent the more common form of magnetically ordered materials, have so far found less practical application beyond their use for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 J. Železný , P. Wadley , K. Olejník. A. Hoffmann , H. Ohno

Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin under applied current, and control magnetization dynamics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 A. Manchon , J. Zelezný , I. M. Miron , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Thiaville , K. Garello , P. Gambardella

Spintronics is postulated on the possibility to employ the magnetic degree of freedom of electrons for computation and couple it to charges. In this view, the combination of the high-frequency of spin manipulations offered by…