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The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) refers to the generation of a spin current as a result of a temperature gradient in a magnetic material, which can be detected electrically via the inverse spin Hall effect in a metallic contact. Since the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-14 Takashi Kikkawa , Eiji Saitoh

The temperature and voltage dependence of spin transport is theoretically investigated in a new type of magnetic tunnel junction, which consists of two ferromagnetic outer electrodes separated by a ferromagnetic barrier and a nonmagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ali A. Shokri , Alireza Saffarzadeh

We consider a two-dimensional electron system subjected to a short-ranged nonmagnetic disorder potential, Coulomb interactions, and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The path-integral approach incorporated within the Keldysh formalism is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

Within the spinor Boltzmann equation (SBE) formalism, we derived a temperature dependent thermal spin-orbit torque based on local equilibrium assumption in a system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. If we expand the distribution function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Zheng-Chuan Wang

The spin Hall (SH) effect, the conversion of the electric current to the spin current along the transverse direction, relies on the relativistic spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we develop a microscopic theory on the mechanisms of the SH…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-21 Satoshi Okamoto , Naoto Nagaosa

This paper aims to investigate the spin dependent transport properties in hybrid nanoribbons, using the non equilibrium Greens function method. The effects of temperature gradient between the left and right leads, the ferromagnetic exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Zainab Gholami , Farhad Khoeini

Spin current and accumulation generated by the electric field in spin Hall insulator (SHI) are investigated theoretically in terms of the Keldysh formalism. In contrast to the quantum Hall system, there are no massless edge modes in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaru Onoda , Naoto Nagaosa

A kinetic one-dimensional Ising model is coupled to two heat baths, such that spins at even (odd) lattice sites experience a temperature $T_{e}$ ($% T_{o}$). Spin flips occur with Glauber-type rates generalised to the case of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Schmüser , B. Schmittmann

The recently observed Seebeck spin tunneling, the thermoelectric analog of spin-polarized tunneling, is described. The fundamental origin is the spin dependence of the Seebeck coefficient of a tunnel junction with at least one ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-20 R. Jansen , A. M. Deac , H. Saito , S. Yuasa

We consider a mesoscopic {\it ballistic} structure with Rashba spin-orbit splitting of the electron spectrum. The ballistic region is attached to the leads with a voltage applied between them. We calculate the edge spin density which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander Khaetskii , Eugene Sukhorukov

In this work, we explore the possibility of enhancing a spin current under a thermal switch, i.e., connecting the central transport region to two leads in individual thermal equilibrium abruptly. Using the nonequilibrium Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Xiaobin Chen , Jiangtao Yuan , Gaomin Tang , Jian Wang , Zhaohui Zhang , Can-Ming Hu , Hong Guo

An ultrafast spin current can be induced by femtosecond laser excitation in a ferromagnetic (FM) thin film in contact with a nonmagnetic (NM) metal. The propagation of an ultrafast spin current into NM metal has recently been found in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Wen-Tian Lu , Zhe Yuan

A new concept realizing giant spin Nernst effect in nonmagnetic metallic films is introduced. It is based on the idea of engineering an asymmetric energy dependence of the longitudinal and transverse electrical conductivities, as well as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Nguyen H. Long , Phivos Mavropoulos , Bernd Zimmermann , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

The conventional definition of spin-current, namely spin density multiplied by the group velocity, is not a conserved quantity due to possible spin rotations caused by spin-orbit (SO) interaction. However, in a model with spin-spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian Wang , Baigeng Wang , Wei Ren , Hong Guo

We develop a theory of spin noise spectroscopy of itinerant, noninteracting, spin-carrying fermions in different regimes of temperature and disorder. We use kinetic equations for the density matrix in spin variables. We find a general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Simon Kos , Alexander V. Balatsky , Peter B. Littlewood , Darryl L. Smith

We investigate electrical transport in a three-dimensional massless Dirac fermion model that describes a Dirac semimetal state realized in topological materials. We derive a set of interdependent diffusion equations with eight local degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masao Ogata

We analyze theoretically the origin of the spin Nernst and thermal Hall effects in FePS3 as a realization of two-dimensional antiferromagnet (2D AFM). We find that a strong magnetoelastic coupling, hybridizing magnetic excitation (magnon)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 D. -Q. To , C. Y. Ameyaw , A. Suresh , S. Bhatt , M. J. H. Ku , M. B. Jungfleisch , J. Q. Xiao , J. M. O. Zide , B. K. Nikolic , M. F. Doty

The Meissner effect and the Spin Meissner effect are the spontaneous generation of charge and spin current respectively near the surface of a metal making a transition to the superconducting state. The Meissner effect is well known but, I…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-23 J. E. Hirsch

We calculate the electrically induced spin accumulation in diffusive systems due to both Rashba (with strength $\alpha)$ and Dresselhaus (with strength $\beta)$ spin-orbit interaction. Using a diffusion equation approach we find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss , Matthias Scheid , Klaus Richter , Inanc Adagideli , Philippe Jacquod

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect on spin accumulation and electric conductance in a diffusive regime of a 2D electron gas has been studied for a 2D strip of a finite width. It is shown that the spin polarization near the flanks of the strip,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , L. Y. Wang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao