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Our joint theoretical and computer experimental study of heat-to-spin conversion reveals that noncollinear antiferromagnetic insulators are promising materials for generating magnon spin currents upon application of a temperature gradient:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Alexander Mook , Robin R. Neumann , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

Magnon band structures in altermagnets are characterized by an energy splitting of modes with opposite chirality, even in the absence of applied external fields and relativistic effects, due to an anisotropy in the Heisenberg exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-03 Markus Weißenhofer , Alberto Marmodoro

In a collinear antiferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy, symmetry guarantees that the spin wave modes are doubly degenerate. The two modes carry opposite spin angular momentum and exhibit opposite chirality. Using a honeycomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Ran Cheng , Satoshi Okamoto , Di Xiao

Searching for novel spin caloric effects in antiferromagnets we study the properties of thermally activated magnons in the presence of an external spin current and temperature gradient. We predict the spin Peltier effect -- generation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Olena Gomonay , Kei Yamamoto , Jairo Sinova

Altermagnet is a distinctive magnet phase, which has spin-split energy band but with zero net magnetic moment. In this paper, we propose that altermagnet behaves spin splitting Nernst effect: Under a longitudinal temperature gradient, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Xing-Jian Yi , Yue Mao , Xiancong Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

We theoretically propose a nonreciprocal spin Seebeck effect, i.e., nonreciprocal spin transport generated by a temperature gradient, in antiferromagnetic insulators with broken inversion symmetry. We find that nonreciprocity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-16 Rina Takashima , Yuki Shiomi , Yukitoshi Motome

Altermagnets offer a promising platform for dissipationless spin transport by combining zero net magnetization with spontaneous non-relativistic spin splitting. However, their magnonic transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Sankar Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

Magnon excitations in antiferromagnetic materials and their physical implications enable novel device concepts not available in ferromagnets, emerging as a new area of active research. A unique characteristic of antiferromagnetic magnons is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

Low power spintronic devices based on the propagation of pure magnonic spin currents in antiferromagnetic insulator materials offer several distinct advantages over ferromagnetic components including higher frequency magnons and a stability…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-30 A. Ross , R. Lebrun , M. Evers , A. Deák , L. Szunyogh , U. Nowak , M. Kläui

The interplay between spin and heat currents at magnetic insulator|nonmagnetic metal interfaces has been a subject of much scrutiny because of both fundamental physics and the promise for technological applications. While ferrimagnetic and,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 Benedetta Flebus , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gregory A. Fiete

We investigate spin transport by thermally excited spin waves in an antiferromagnetic insulator. Starting from a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology, we obtain the out-of-equilibrium spin-wave properties. In linear response to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Scott A. Bender , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

Spin transport of magnonic excitations in uniaxial insulating antiferromagnets (AFs) is investigated. In linear response to spin biasing and a temperature gradient, the spin transport properties of normal-metal--insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Roberto E. Troncoso , Scott A. Bender , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

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

We report the observation of magnon spin currents generated by the Spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in a bulk single crystal of the easy-plane antiferromagnet NiO. A magnetic field induces a non-degeneracy and thereby an imbalance in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Geert R. Hoogeboom , Bart J. van Wees

In the absence of an external magnetic field and a spin-polarized charge current, an antiferromagnetic system supports two degenerate magnon modes. An applied thermal bias activates the magnetic dynamics, leading to a magnon flow from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 L. Chotorlishvili , Xi-guang Wang , A. Dyrdal , Guang-hua Guo , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

The influence of an asymmetric in-plane magnetic anisotropy on the thermally activated spin current is studied theoretically for two different systems; (i) the system consisting of a ferromagnetic insulator in a direct contact with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , S. R. Etesami , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

Altermagnets exhibit a spin-split band structure despite having zero net magnetization, leading to special magnonic properties such as anisotropic magnon lifetimes and field-free spin transport. Here, we present a direct experimental…

Compensated ferrimagnets enable ferromagnet-like spin transport without net magnetization. We study the spin Seebeck effect in a compensated ferrimagnet/normal-metal junction using a four-sublattice model in which sublattice inequivalence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Xin Theng Lee , Takahiro Misawa , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

Antiferromagnetic insulators can become active spintronics components by controlling and detecting their dynamics via spin currents in adjacent metals. This cross-talk occurs via spin-transfer and spin-pumping, phenomena that have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Arne Brataas , Hans Skarsvåg , Erlend G. Tveten , Eirik Løhaugen Fjærbu

For prospective spintronics devices based on the propagation of pure spin currents, antiferromagnets are an interesting class of materials that potentially entail a number of advantages as compared to ferromagnets. Here, we present a…

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