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Pure spin currents transport angular momentum without an associated charge flow. This unique property makes them attractive for spintronics applications, such as torque induced magnetization control in nanodevices that can be used for…

The spin transfer torque is a phenomenon in which angular momentum of a spin polarized electrical current entering a ferromagnet is transferred to the magnetization. The effect has opened a new research field of electrically driven…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-07 P. Nemec , E. Rozkotova , N. Tesarova , F. Trojanek , E. De Ranieri , K. Olejnik , J. Zemen , V. Novak , M. Cukr , P. Maly , T. Jungwirth

Efficient transport of spin and orbital moments, and their electrical detection, are among the main challenges in spintronics and orbitronics. In magnetic insulators, these currents are mediated by magnons. In addition to carrying spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Sankar Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

Altermagnets have recently attracted considerable interest due to their unique symmetry-governed spintronic properties. Here, we investigate phonon-induced magnon spin currents in a two-dimensional altermagnet. Starting from a microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Sofie Helene Ursin , Mathias Kläui , Kjetil M. D. Hals

Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin under applied current, and control magnetization dynamics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 A. Manchon , J. Zelezný , I. M. Miron , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Thiaville , K. Garello , P. Gambardella

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

The transport of spin information has been studied in various materials, such as metals, semiconductors and graphene. In these materials, spin is transported by diffusion of conduction electrons. Here we study the diffusion and relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 L. J. Cornelissen , J. Liu , R. A. Duine , J. Ben Youssef , B. J. Van Wees

We investigate spin angular momentum transfer in the Einstein-de Haas effect within prototypical magnetic crystals, focusing on its partition between phonons and rigid-body rotation. Using the Eckart frame to decouple local vibrations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Xin Nie , Wenhao Luo , Kun Cao , Dao-Xin Yao

Spin transport via magnon diffusion in magnetic insulators is important for a broad range of spin-based phenomena and devices. However, the absence of the magnon equivalent of an electric force is a bottleneck. In this work, we demonstrate…

We study the exchange between electron and magnon spins at the interface of an antiferromagnet and a heavy metal at finite temperatures. The underlying physical mechanism is based on spin torque associated with the creation/annihilation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Xi-guang Wang , Yao-Zhuang Nie , L. Chotorlishvili , Qing-lin Xia , J. Berakdar , Guang-hua Guo

We study the nonequilibrium spin current through a quantum dot consisting of two localized spin-1/2 coupled to two ferromagnetic insulators. The influence of an intra-dot magnetic field and exchange coupling, different dot-reservoir…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Olaf Strelcyk , Thomas Korb , Herbert Schoeller

In an antiferromagnet (AF) with uniaxial anisotropy, spin-up and spin-down magnons coexist and form an intrinsic degree of freedom resembling electrons. When polarized by an adjacent ferromagnet (F), a magnonic pure spin current can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Ran Cheng , Di Xiao , Jian-Gang Zhu

Motivated by recent experiments on spin pumping from a ferromagnet into organic materials in which the charge transport is due to hopping, we study theoretically the generation and propagation of spin current in a hopping insulator. Unlike…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Z. Yue , D. A. Pesin , M. E. Raikh

Spintronics is the generic term that describes magnetic systems coupled to an electric generator, taking into account the spin attached to the charge carriers. For this topical review of {\it Spin Caloritronics}, we focus our attention on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. -E. Wegrowe

This article reviews the principles that govern the combined transport of spin, heat, and charge. The extensive thermodynamic quantity associated with spin transport is the magnetization; its Onsager-conjugate force is in general the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Joseph P. Heremans

We discuss spin-wave transport in anisotropic ferromagnets with an emphasis on the zeroes of the band edges as a function of a magnetic field. An associated divergence of the magnon spin should be observable by enhanced magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 G. E. W. Bauer , P. Tang , M. Elyasi , Y. M. Blanter , B. J. van Wees

A temperature gradient applied to a ferromagnetic metal induces not only independent flows of electrons and magnons but also drag currents because of their mutual interaction. In this paper, we present a microscopic study of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Terufumi Yamaguchi , Hiroshi Kohno , Rembert A. Duine

Superfluid spin transport $-$ dissipationless transport of spin $-$ is theoretically studied in a ferromagnetic insulator with easy-plane anisotropy. We consider an open geometry where spin current is injected into the ferromagnet from one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 So Takei , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

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

Excitation of magnons or spin-waves driven by nominally unpolarized transport currents in point contacts of normal and ferromagnetic metals is probed by irradiating the contacts with microwaves. Two characteristic dynamic effects are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 O. P. Balkashin , V. V. Fisun , I. K. Yanson , L. Yu. Triputen , A. Konovalenko , V. Korenivski