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When a magnon passes through two-dimensional magnetic textures, it will experience a fictitious magnetic field originating from the $3\times 3$ skew-symmetric gauge fields. To date, only one of the three independent components of the gauge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Zhejunyu Jin , Xianglong Yao , Zhenyu Wang , H. Y. Yuan , Zhaozhuo Zeng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

The thermal transport of magnons has attracted substantial attention as an energy-efficient alternative to the transport of electrons. Most theoretical studies so far have been carried out within the frame of the linear spin-wave theory,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

Magnons are electrically neutral bosonic quasiparticles emerging as collective spin excitations of magnetically ordered materials, and play a central role in the next-generation spintronics owing to its obviating Joule heating. A difficult…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 YuanDong Wang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

We identify and investigate thermal spin transport phenomena in sputter-deposited Pt/NiFe$_2$O$_{\textrm{4-x}}$ ($4\geq x \geq 0$) bilayers. We separate the voltage generated by the spin Seebeck effect from the anomalous Nernst effect…

Temperature gradient in a ferromagnetic conductor may generate a spontaneous transverse voltage drop in the direction perpendicular to both magnetization and heat current. This anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) has been considered to be…

Topological Kagome magnets, characterized by nontrivial electronic band structures featuring flat band, Dirac cone and van Hove singularities, provide a new avenue for the realization of thermoelectric devices. Unlike the conventional…

We study the Nernst effect and the spin Nernst effect, that a longitudinal thermal gradient induces a transverse voltage and a spin current. A mesoscopic four-terminal cross-bar device having the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shu-guang Cheng , Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Magnon spin transport in a metal-antiferromagnetic insulator-ferromagnetic insulator heterostructure is considered. The spin current is generated via the spin Seebeck effect and in the limit of clean sample where the effects of interface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Niklas Rohling , Roberto E. Troncoso

Transverse thermoelectric devices produce electric fields perpendicular to an incident heat flux. Classically, this process is driven by the Nernst effect in bulk solids, wherein a magnetic field generates a Lorentz force on thermally…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-04 Stephen R. Boona , Koen Vandaele , Isabel N. Boona , David W. McComb , Joseph P. Heremans

Effectively manipulating magnetism in ferromagnet (FM) thin film nanostructures with an in-plane current has become feasible since the determination of a 'giant' spin Hall effect (SHE) in certain heavy metal (HM)/FM system. Recently, both…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-29 Yongxi Ou , Shengjie Shi , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Altermagnets host chirally split magnons that promise unique functionalities for information processing. However, their distinctive transport signatures, crucial for experimental identification and manipulation, remain elusive. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Yanmeng Lei , Rui-Chun Xiao , Weiwei Lin , Tao Yu

The spin Seebeck effect refers to the generation of a spin voltage caused by a temperature gradient in a ferromagnet, which enables the thermal injection of spin currents from the ferromagnet into an attached nonmagnetic metal over a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hiroto Adachi , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

The propagation of magnons along a symmetry path may depend on the direction of propagation, similar to many other quasiparticles in nature. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as nonreciprocity. In addition to the fact that it is of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-10 Albrecht von Faber , Christopher Hins , Khalil Zakeri

Antiferromagnetism couples electron spin to its orbital motion, thus allowing excitation of electron-spin transitions by an ac electric rather than magnetic field - with absorption, exceeding that of common electron spin resonance at least…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-08 Revaz Ramazashvili

We predict that a temperature gradient can induce a magnon-mediated intrinsic torque and a transverse spin current in systems with non-trivial magnon Berry curvature. With the help of a microscopic linear response theory of nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Alexey A. Kovalev , Vladimir Zyuzin

Anomalous Nernst effect (ANE), a widely investigated transverse thermoelectric effect that converts waste heat into electrical energy with remarkable flexibility and integration capability, has been extended to antiferromagnets with…

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in ferrimagnetic insulators (FMI) provides a simple method of using heat to manipulate magnons, which could be used as carriers of information and energy conversion. However, a theory that can quantitively…

In an antiferromagnet (AF) with uniaxial anisotropy, spin-up and spin-down magnons coexist and form an intrinsic degree of freedom resembling electrons. When polarized by an adjacent ferromagnet (F), a magnonic pure spin current can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Ran Cheng , Di Xiao , Jian-Gang Zhu

The utilization of ferromagnetic (FM) materials in thermoelectric devices allows one to have a simpler structure and/or independent control of electric and thermal conductivities, which may further remove obstacles for this technology to be…