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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

Laser-generated surface acoustic waves (SAW) facilitate efficient information processing in modern spintronics and magnonics. The ability to tune the SAW parameters such as amplitude is crucial to achieve acoustic control over magnonic…

We report on the observation of the acoustic spin Hall effect that facilitates lattice motion induced spin current via spin orbit interaction (SOI). Under excitation of surface acoustic wave (SAW), we find a spin current flows orthogonal to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Takuya Kawada , Masashi Kawaguchi , Takumi Funato , Hiroshi Kohno , Masamitsu Hayashi

We propose and analyze surface-plasmon-driven electron spin currents in a thin metallic film. The electron gas in the metal follows the transversally rotating electric fields of the surface plasmons (SPs), which leads to a static…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Daigo Oue , Mamoru Matsuo

Altermagnets, a recently identified class of magnetic materials, possess a spin-split Fermi surface that results in the so-called spin splitter effect, enabling the generation of a spin current transverse to the injection direction and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

Orbital angular momentum offers a new channel for information transport in a vast set of materials. Its coherent generation and detection remain, however, largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that chiral surface acoustic waves (SAWs)…

We study the coupling mechanism of surface acoustic waves (SAW) with spin waves (SW) using micromagnetic analysis. The SAW magnetoacoustic excitation field is fully implemented, i.e., all strain and lattice-rotation terms are included. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Florian Millo , Pauline Rovillain , Massimiliano Marangolo , Daniel Stoeffler

We develop a coherent beam splitter for single electrons driven through two tunnel-coupled quantum wires by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The output current through each wire oscillates with gate voltages to tune the tunnel-coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 R. Ito , S. Takada , A. Ludwig , A. D. Wieck , S. Tarucha , M. Yamamoto

The ability to rapidly manipulate domain walls (DWs) in magnetic materials is key to developing novel high-speed spintronic memory and computing devices. Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials present a particularly promising platform due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Kyle L. Seyler , Hantao Zhang , Daniel Van Beveren , Costel R. Rotundu , Young S. Lee , Ran Cheng , David Hsieh

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This enables a spin-splitter effect in which an external electric field generates transverse spin currents by separating oppositely polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sanjay Sarkar , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

The electromotive forces induced by surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are investigated in ferromagnetic thin films. CoFeB thin films deposited on LiNbO$_3$ substrates are patterned into Hall-bars to study the acoustoelectric transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Takuya Kawada , Masashi Kawaguchi , Masamitsu Hayashi

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) have great benefits for spintronic applications such as high frequencies (up to THz), high speeds (up to tens of km/s) of magnetic excitations, and field-free operation. Advanced devices will require high-speed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Roman V. Ovcharov , B. A. Ivanov , Johan Åkerman , Roman S. Khymyn

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology has been explored in thin-film materials to discover fundamental phenomena and to investigate their physical properties. It is used to excite and manipulate quasi-particles such as phonons or magnons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Koji Fujiwara , Shunsuke Ota , Tetsuo Kodera , Yuma Okazaki , Nobu-Hisa Kaneko , Nan Jiang , Yasuhiro Niimi , Shintaro Takada

The compensated magnetic order and characteristic, terahertz frequencies of antiferromagnetic materials makes them promising candidates to develop a new class of robust, ultra-fast spintronic devices. The manipulation of antiferromagnetic…

The generation of collinear spin current (CSC), where both the propagation direction and spin-polarized direction aligned perpendicularly to the applied charge current, is crucial for efficiently manipulating systems with perpendicular…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 M. Q. Dong , Zhi-Xin Guo , Xin-Gao Gong

We have developed a simple detection scheme to study spin waves excited by surface acoustic wave (SAW) in ferromagnetic thin films. Metallic antennas made of Ta and a ferromagnetic element are placed along the SAW propagation path. The SAW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Hiroki Matsumoto , Yasuhiro Todaka , Takuya Kawada , Masashi Kawaguchi , Masamitsu Hayashi

Magnetic skyrmions have great potential for developing novel spintronic devices. The electrical manipulation of skyrmions has mainly relied on current-induced spin-orbit torques. A recent theoretical model suggested that the skyrmions could…

Spin waves are perturbations in the relative orientation of magnetic moments in a continuous magnetic system, which have been proposed as a new kind of information carrier for spin-based low power applications. For this purpose, a major…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Michele Voto , Luis Lopez-Diaz , Eduardo Martinez

We show that the magnetic moment of a nanoparticle embedded in the surface of a solid can be switched by surface acoustic waves (SAW) in the GHz frequency range via a universal mechanism that does not depend on the structure of the particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Reem Jaafar

Electrical manipulation of spin-polarized current is highly desirable yet tremendously challenging in developing ultracompact spintronic device technology. Here we propose a scheme to realize the all-electrical manipulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Rui Peng , Jin Yang , Lin Hu , Wee-Liat Ong , Pin Ho , Chit Siong Lau , Junwei Liu , Yee Sin Ang