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For chiral liquid crystals that express topologically protected defects and thermally driven mechanical rotation, the size- and temperature-driven reversal of the rotational direction of their droplets was demonstrated even under a fixed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-24 Shunsuke Takano , Takuya Nakanishi , Kenta Nakagawa , Toru Asahi

A magnetoelectronic thin-film transistor is proposed that can display negative differential resistance and gain. The working principle is the modulation of the soure-drain current in a spin valve by the magnetization of a third electrode,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Bart J. van Wees

We study electric field and temperature gradient driven magnetoconductivity of a Weyl semimetal system. To analyze the responses, we utilize the kinetic equation with semiclassical equations of motion modified by the Berry curvature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Vladimir A. Zyuzin

Magnetic skyrmions can be driven by an applied spin-polarized electron current which exerts a spin-transfer torque on the localized spins constituting the skyrmion. However, the longitudinal dynamics is plagued by the skyrmion Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 J. Plettenberg , M. Stier , M. Thorwart

The angular momentum of evanescent light fields has been studied in nano-optics and plasmonics, but not in the microwave regime. Here we predict non-contact pumping of electron spin currents in conductors by the evanescent stray fields of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Tao Yu , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

First, I study the analogy between the magnetization of a material and the spin polarization of particles in a fluid. Using the relativistic version of the Barnett effect, i.e. the magnetization of a material induced by mechanical rotation,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-22 Matteo Buzzegoli

A theoretical formulation for spin transport through an antiferromagnetic (AF) insulator is presented in the case driven/detected by direct/inverse spin Hall effect in two heavy metal contacts. The spin signal is shown to be transferred by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Gen Tatara , Christian Ortiz Pauyac

Chiral matter has a structure that lacks inversion, mirror, and rotoreflection symmetry; thus, a given chiral material has either a right- or left-handed structure. In chiral matter, electricity and magnetism can be coupled in an exotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-19 Tetsuya Furukawa , Yuta Watanabe , Naoki Ogasawara , Kaya Kobayashi , Tetsuaki Itou

We study the coupled magnon energy transport and collective magnetization dynamics in ferromagnets with magnetic textures. By constructing a phenomenological theory based on irreversible thermodynamics, we describe motion of domain walls by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-20 Alexey A. Kovalev , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Molecular chirality and electron spin are intricately intertwined via the fascinating phenomenon of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS), which has garnered considerable attention due to its extensive potential applications. A recent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Peng-Yi Liu , Tian-Yi Zhang , Ai-Min Guo , Yossi Paltiel , Qing-Feng Sun

In a multi-terminal setup, when time-reversal symmetry is broken by a magnetic field, the heat flows can be managed by designing a device with programmable Boolean behavior. We show that such device can be used to implement operations like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Riccardo Bosisio , Stefano Valentini , Francesco Mazza , Giuliano Benenti , Rosario Fazio , Vittorio Giovannetti , Fabio Taddei

Vector spin chirality is one of the fundamental characteristics of complex magnets. For a one-dimensional spin-spiral state it can be interpreted as the handedness, or rotational sense of the spiral. Here, using spin-polarized scanning…

The spin Seebeck effect is a spin-motive force generated by a temperature gradient in a ferromagnet that can be detected via normal metal contacts through the inverse spin Hall effect [K. Uchida {\it et al.}, Nature {\bf 455}, 778-781…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-07 Jiang Xiao , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

The nucleon's peripheral transverse charge and magnetization densities are computed in chiral effective field theory. The densities are represented in first-quantized form, as overlap integrals of chiral light-front wave functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-02 C. Granados , C. Weiss

Dissipative spin-tunneling transitions at biased resonances in molecular magnets such as Mn-12 Ac are controlled by the dipolar field that can bring the system on and off resonance. It is shown that this leads to spin relaxation in form of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-10 D. A. Garanin

Spin Hall effect is the transverse flow of the electron spin in conductors under external electric field. Similarly, thermal gradient in magnetic insulators can drive a transverse flow of the spin angular momentum of magnons, which provides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Sungjoon Park , Bohm-Jung Yang

Detailed account is given of the chirality scenario of experimental spin-glass transitions. In this scenario, the spin glass order of weakly anisotropic Heisenberg-like spin-glass magnets including canonical spin glasses are essentially…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Hikaru Kawamura

In spin caloritronics, a branch of spintronics, the spin degree of freedom is exploited for thermoelectric conversion and thermal transport. Since the inception of spin caloritronics, many experimental and theoretical studies have focused…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-04 Ken-ichi Uchida , Ryo Iguchi

We show how a spin polarization can be generated through the photo-induced electron transfer of an achiral donor-acceptor complex following chiral light excitation. In particular, we illustrate the basic energetic and symmetry requirements…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Sindhana Pannir-Sivajothi , David T. Limmer

Recent demonstration of efficient transport and manipulation of spin information by magnon currents have opened exciting prospects for processing information in devices. Magnon currents can be driven both electrically and thermally, even in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Juan M. Gomez-Perez , Saül Vélez , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova