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Starting from a continuum constituted by charged tops, we formulate the classical counterpart of a previously obtained covariant continuity-like equation for the spin current. Such a formulism provides an intuitive picture to elucidate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-19 Pei-Qing Jin , You-Quan Li

We derive diffusion equations, which describe spin-charge coupled transport on the helical metal surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. The main feature of these equations is a large magnitude of the spin-charge coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , D. G. Hawthorn

Considering metallic films at room temperature, we present the first theoretical study of the spin Nernst and thermal Edelstein effects which takes into account dynamical spin-orbit coupling, i.e., direct spin-orbit coupling with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 Sebastian Tölle , Cosimo Gorini , Ulrich Eckern

We present a qualitative model study of energy and temperature dependence of hot electron magnetotransport. This model calculations are based on a simple argument that the inelastic scattering strength of hot electrons is strongly spin and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Jisang Hong

Angular momentum transport in magnetic multilayered structures plays a central role in spintronic physics and devices. The angular momentum currents or spin currents are carried by either quasi-particles such as electrons and magnons, or by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-04 Kai Chen , Weiwei Lin , C. L. Chien , Shufeng Zhang

Spin dependent transport in a multi-terminal mesoscopic ring is investigated in presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. Within a tight-binding framework we use a general spin density matrix formalism to evaluate all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , Sreekantha Sil , S. N. Karmakar

Spin-dependent transport phenomena due to relativistic spin-orbit coupling and broken space-inversion symmetry are often difficult to interpret microscopically, in particular when occurring at surfaces or interfaces. Here we present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 J. Železný , Z. Fang , K. Olejník , J. Patchett , F. Gerhard , C. Gould , L. W. Molenkamp , C. Gomez-Olivella , J. Zemen , T. Tichý , T. Jungwirth , C. Ciccarelli

Charge and spin transport in spintronics devices can be described by a spin diffusion equation suitable for modelling scales much larger than the scattering and atomic scales. This work concerns the coarse graining procedure used to compute…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Vincent Sacksteder

We study the interplay of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) and a uniform perpendicular magnetic field $\textbf{B}$ on the transport of a spin-polarized electron along a curved quantum wire. Eigenenergies and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Carlos Baldo , Cristine Villagonzalo

We provide a microscopic theory for the Doppler velocimetry of spin propagation in the presence of spatial inhomogeneity, driving electric field and the spin orbit coupling in semiconductor quantum wells in a wide range of temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

We derive thermomagnonic torque and its "$\beta$-type" dissipative correction from the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. The "$\beta$-type" dissipative correction describes viscous coupling between magnetic dynamics and magnonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alexey A. Kovalev

Electronic transport in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring threaded by a magnetic flux is studied in presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. A completely analytical technique within a tight-binding formalism unveils the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-30 Santanu K. Maiti , Moumita Dey , Shreekantha Sil , Arunava Chakrabarti , S. N. Karmakar

A theoretical model based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation is developed to study the spin-torque effect in ferrimagnets. Experimental findings, such as the temperature dependence, the peak in spin torque, and the angular-momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-21 Zhifeng Zhu , Xuanyao Fong , Gengchiau Liang

We have studied spin orbit torque in heavy metal (HM)/ferromagnetic metal (FM) bilayers using magneto-optical Kerr effect. A double modulation technique is developed to separate signals from spin orbit torque and Joule heating. At a current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 Yukihiro Marui , Masashi Kawaguchi , Masamitsu Hayashi

The Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions are both shown to yield the low temperature spin-Hall effect for strongly localized electrons coupled to phonons. A frequency-dependent electric field ${\bf E}(\omega)$ generates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. M. Galperin , V. I. Kozub , V. Vinokur

In this note we summarize our recent results for the temperature dependence of transport coefficients of metallic films in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Our focus is on (i) the spin Nernst and the thermal Edelstein effects, and (ii)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 U. Eckern , C. Gorini , R. Raimondi , S. Tölle

We present a phenomenological theory of spin-orbit torques in a metallic ferromagnet with spin-relaxing boundaries. The model is rooted in the coupled diffusion of charge and spin in the bulk of the ferromagnet, where we account for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Hector Ochoa , Ricardo Zarzuela , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We study the role of thermal magnons in the spin and heat transport across a normal-metal/insulating-ferromagnet interface, which is beyond an elastic electronic spin transfer. Using an interfacial exchange Hamiltonian, which couples spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Scott A. Bender , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We present an extension of relativistic single-particle distribution function for weakly interacting particles at local thermodynamical equilibrium including spin degrees of freedom, for massive spin 1/2 particles. We infer, on the basis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Becattini , V. Chandra , L. Del Zanna , E. Grossi

We address the temperature influence on the precessional motion of electron spins under transverse magnetic field, studied in a GaAs/AlGaAs triple quantum wells, using pump-probe Kerr rotation. In the presence of an applied in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 S. Ullah , F. C. D. Moraes , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez