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We present a theory of the Seebeck effect in nanomagnets with dimensions smaller than the spin diffusion length, showing that the spin accumulation generated by a temperature gradient strongly affects the thermopower. We also identify a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Dmitry V. Fedorov , Martin Gradhand , Katarina Tauber , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Ingrid Mertig

Spin accumulation and spin current profiles are calculated for a disordered Pt film subjected to an in-plane electric current within the nonequilibrium Green function approach. In the bulklike region of the sample, this approach captures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 K. D. Belashchenko , G. G. Baez Flores , W. Fang , A. A. Kovalev , M. van Schilfgaarde , P. M. Haney , M. D. Stiles

We study temperature evolution of spin accumulation signals obtained by the three-terminal Hanle effect measurements in a nondegenerated silicon channel with a Schottky-tunnel-barrier contact. We find the clear difference in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 Y. Ando , K. Kasahara , S. Yamada , Y. Maeda , K. Masaki , Y. Hoshi , K. Sawano , M. Miyao , K. Hamaya

Spin and valley dependent anomalous Nernst effect are analyzed for monolayer MoS2 and other group-VI dichalcogenides. We find that pure spin and valley currents can be generated perpendicular to the applied thermal gradient in the plane of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 X. -Q. Yu , Z. -G. Zhu , G. Su , A. -P. Jauho

A nonequilibrium Green's functions approach to spin-Hall effect is developed in a diffusive two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In the presence of long-range impurities, the coupled quantum kinetic equations…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

We show that a two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled system in the presence of a charge/spin-density wave with a wave-vector perpendicular to an applied electric field supports bulk manifestations of the direct/inverse spin-Hall effect. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-15 Brandon Anderson , Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski

We show that in a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) the interplay between the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a potential barrier (eg., the sample edge) generates interesting spin effects. In the presence of an external charge current, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

The temperature dependence of magneto current in the spin spin valve transistor system is theoretically explored based on phenomenological model. We find that the collector current strongly depends on the relative orientation of magnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Jisang Hong , P. S. Anil Kumar

The conformal anomaly indicates the breaking of conformal symmetry (angle-preserving transformations) in the quantum theory by quantum fluctuations and is a close cousin of the gravitational anomaly. We show, for the first time, that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-18 Christian Northe , Chunxu Zhang , Rafał Wawrzyńczak , Johannes Gooth , Stanislaw Galeski , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

The non-equilibrium spin accumulation in ferromagnetic double barrier junctions is shown to govern the transport in small structures. Transport properties of such systems are described by a generalization of the theory of the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arne Brataas , Yu. V. Nazarov , J. Inoue , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Here, we study diffusive spin transport in two dimensions and demonstrate that an intrinsic analog to a previously predicted extrinsic spin swapping effect, where the spin polarization and the direction of flow are interchanged due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Severin Sadjina , Arne Brataas , A. G. Mal'shukov

The thermodynamics of irreversible processes in continuous media predicts the existence of a Magnetic Nernst effect that results from a magnetic analog to the Seebeck effect in a ferromagnet and magnetophoresis occurring in a paramagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Sylvain D. Brechet , Jean-Philippe Ansermet

A diversity of spin Hall effects in metallic systems is known to rely on Mott skew scattering. In this work its high-temperature counterpart, phonon skew scattering, which is expected to be of foremost experimental relevance, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Cosimo Gorini , Ulrich Eckern , Roberto Raimondi

Using a two-dimensional square lattice Heisenberg model with a Rashba-type Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, we demonstrate that chiral spin fluctuations can give rise to a thermal Hall effect in the absence of any static spin texture or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Caitlin Carnahan , Yinhan Zhang , Di Xiao

We observe the inverse spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in AlGaAs/InGaAs quantum wells. Specifically, we find that an inhomogeneous spin density induced by the optical injection gives rise an electric current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Baoli Liu , Junren Shi , Wenxin Wang , Hongming Zhao , Dafang Li , Shoucheng Zhang , Qikun Xue , Dongmin Chen

Using one of the methods of quantum nonequilibrium statistical physics we have investigated the spin transport transverse to the normal metal/ferromagnetic insulator interface in hybrid nanostructures. An approximation of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. I. Lyapilin , M. S. Okorokov , V. V. Ustinov

Spin orbit torque has been intensively investigated because of its high energy efficiency in manipulating a magnetization. Although various methods for measuring the spin orbit torque have been developed so far, the measurement results…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-16 M. Kawaguchi , T. Moriyama , H. Mizuno , K. Yamada , H. Kakizakai , T. Koyama , D. Chiba , T. Ono

Current-induced spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered theoretically in terms of the Matsubara Green functions. This formalism allows to describe temperature dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas , V. K. Dugaev

When a superconducting ring encloses a magnetic flux that is not an integer multiple of half the quantum of flux, a voltage arises in the direction perpendicular to the temperature gradient. This effect is entirely due to thermal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-04-28 Jorge Berger

We have described the electron spin dynamics in the presence of Rashba spin- orbit interaction and disorder using the spin-density matrix method. We showed that in the Born approximation in the scattering amplitude the spin current is zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Khaetskii