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We theoretically investigate spin transport at the interface between the ferromagnetic insulator(FI) and a superconductor(SC). Considering a simple FI-SC interface model, we derive formulas for the spin current and spin-current noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 T. Kato , Y. Ohnuma , M. Matsuo , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

We report large enhancement of thermally injected spin current in normal metal (NM)/antiferromagnet(AF)/yttrium iron garnet(YIG), where a thin AF insulating layer of NiO or CoO can enhance spin current from YIG to a NM by up to a factor of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-25 Weiwei Lin , Kai Chen , Shufeng Zhang , C. L. Chien

We present a study of the transport properties of thermally generated spin currents in an insulating ferrimagnetic-antiferromagnetic-ferrimagnetic trilayer over a wide range of temperature. Spin currents generated by the spin Seebeck effect…

Contrary to conventional wisdom that spin dynamics induced by current are exclusive to metallic magnets, we theoretically predict that such phenomena can also be realized in magnetic insulators, specifically in the magnetoelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 R. M. Dubrovin , Z. V. Gareeva , A. V. Kimel , A. K. Zvezdin

We investigate the spin-current transport through antiferromagnetic insulator (AFMI) by means of the spin-Hall magnetoressitance (SMR) over a wide temperature range in Pt/NiO/Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (Pt/NiO/YIG) heterostructures. By inserting…

We report temperature-dependent spin-Seebeck measurements on Pt/YIG bilayers and Pt/NiO/YIG trilayers, where YIG (Yttrium iron garnet, Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$) is an insulating ferrimagnet and NiO is an antiferromagnet at low temperatures. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-17 Arati Prakash , Jack Brangham , Fengyuan Yang , Joseph P. Heremans

We report on a new electromagnetic phenomenon that emerges in Mott insulators, i.e., materials that do not conduct electricity because of strong electronic Coulomb repulsion. The phenomenon manifests as antiferromagnetic ordering due to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 K. A. Al-Hassanieh , C. D. Batista , G. Ortiz , L. N. Bulaevskii

Coherent spin oscillations were non-thermally induced by circularly polarized pulses in fully compensated antiferromagnetic NiO. This effect is attributed to an entirely new mechanism of the action, on the spins, of the effective magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-18 Takuya Satoh , Sung-Jin Cho , Ryugo Iida , Tsutomu Shimura , Kazuo Kuroda , Hiroaki Ueda , Yutaka Ueda , B. A. Ivanov , Franco Nori , Manfred Fiebig

A prominent feature of $d$-wave altermagnets is that spin current is generated by applying temperature gradient, which is known as the spin-Nernst effect. We show in $f$-wave magnets that spin current is generated proportional to the square…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Motohiko Ezawa

We develop a theory for spin transported by coherent Neel dynamics through an antiferromagnetic insulator coupled to a ferromagnetic insulator on one side and a current-carrying normal metal with strong spin-orbit coupling on the other. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 So Takei , Takahiro Moriyama , Teruo Ono , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We theoretically study the conditions under which a spin Nernst effect - a transverse spin current induced by an applied temperature gradient - can occur in a canted antiferromagnetic insulator, such as ${\rm LaFeO_3}$ and other materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Wesley Roberts , Bowen Ma , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Gregory A. Fiete

A theoretical proposal for realizing and detecting spin supercurrent in an isotropic antiferromagnetic insulator is reported. Superfluid spin transport is achieved by inserting the antiferromagnet between two metallic reservoirs and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 So Takei , Bertrand I. Halperin , Amir Yacoby , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We theoretically investigate the fluctuation of a pure spin current induced by the spin Seebeck effect and spin pumping in a normal metal (NM)/ferromagnet (FM) bilayer system. Starting with a simple FI--NM interface model with both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 M. Matsuo , Y. Ohnuma , T. Kato , S. Maekawa

We investigate the generation of magnonic thermal spin currents and their mode selective spin transport across interfaces in insulating, compensated ferrimagnet/normal metal bilayer systems. The spin Seebeck effect signal exhibits a…

We consider spin-polarized transport in a quantum spin Hall antidot system coupled to normal leads. Due to the helical nature of the conducting edge states, the screening potential at the dot region becomes spin dependent without external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , Minchul Lee , David Sanchez

Following the theoretical approach by Xiao et al [Phys. Rev. B 81, 214418 (2010)] to the spin Seebeck effect, we calculate the mean value of the total spin current flowing through a normalmetal/ ferromagnet interface. The spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , S. Trimper , J. Berakdar

We investigate a spin-electricity conversion effect in a topological insulator/ferromagnet heterostructure. In the spin-momentum-locked surface state, an electric current generates nonequilibrium spin accumulation, which causes a spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Nobuyuki Okuma , Kentaro Nomura

A magnetic insulator is an ideal platform to propagate spin information by exploiting magnon currents. However, until now, most studies have focused on Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (YIG) and a few other ferri- and antiferromagnetic insulators, but…

Inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) in ferromagnetic metals (FM) can also be used to detect the spin current generated by longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in a ferromagnetic insulator YIG. However, anomalous Nernst effect(ANE) in FM itself…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Hao Wu , Xiao Wang , Li Huang , Jianying Qin , Chi Fang , Xuan Zhang , Caihua Wan , Xiufeng Han

We report on the observation of the spin Seebeck effect in antiferromagnetic MnF$_2$. A device scale on-chip heater is deposited on a bilayer of Pt (4 nm)/MnF$_2$ (110) (30 nm) grown by molecular beam epitaxy on a MgF$_2$ (110) substrate.…