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Controlling spin current lies at the heart of spintronics and its applications. The sign of spin currents is monotonous in ferromagnets once the current direction is determined. Spin currents in antiferromagnets can possess opposite…

Degenerate plasmas with motionless ions show existence of three surface waves: the Langmuir wave, the electromagnetic wave, and the zeroth sound. Applying the separated spin evolution quantum hydrodynamics to half-space plasma we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 Pavel A. Andreev , L. S. Kuz'menkov

Heat generated by spin currents in spintronics-based devices is typically much less than that generated by charge current flows in conventional electronic devices. However, the conventional approaches for excitation of spin currents based…

We demonstrate that the spin wave Cherenkov effect can be used to design the unidirectional spin wave emitter with tunable frequency and switchable direction of emission. In our numerical studies, we propose to use a pair of traveling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Gauthier Philippe , Mathieu Moalic , Jarosław W. Kłos

The linear and nonlinear interactions between spin waves (magnons) and acoustic waves (phonons) in magnetostrictive materials provide an exciting opportunity for realizing novel microwave signal processing devices and spintronic circuits.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Pratim Chowdhury , Albrecht Jander , Pallavi Dhagat

The formation and properties of envelope dispersive shock wave (DSW) excitations from repulsive nonlinear waves in a magnetic film are studied. Experiments involve the excitation of a spin-wave step pulse in a low-loss magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 P. A. Praveen Janantha , Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer , Mingzhong Wu

The role of metallic nanostructures in nanophotonics is expected to expand if ways to electrically manipulate their optical resonances at high speed can be identified. Here, we capitalize on electrically-driven surface acoustic waves and…

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) become a popular driving source in modern condensed matter physics, but most existing theories simplify them as electric fields and ignore the non-uniform Brillouin zone folding effect. We develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Zi-Qian Zhou , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Cong Xiao , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

The Doppler shift of the quasiparticle dispersion by charge currents is responsible for the critical supercurrents in superconductors and instabilities of the magnetic ground state of metallic ferromagnets. Here we predict an analogous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Tao Yu , Chen Wang , Michael A. Sentef , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

It has recently been demonstrated that surface acoustic waves (SAWs) can interact with superconducting qubits at the quantum level. SAW resonators in the GHz frequency range have also been found to have low loss at temperatures compatible…

Magnetically ordered, electrically insulating materials pave the way towards novel spintronic devices. In these materials the flow of magnetic excitations such as magnons results in pure spin currents. These spin currents can be driven by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 Matthias Althammer , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein , Rudolf Gross

Advancing the development of spin-wave devices requires high-quality low-damping magnetic materials where magnon spin currents can propagate efficiently and interact effectively with local magnetic textures. We show that magnetic domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Yabin Fan , Miela J. Gross , Takian Fakhrul , Joseph Finley , Justin T. Hou , Luqiao Liu , Caroline A. Ross

Atomically thin two-dimensional layer of honeycomb crystalline carbon known as graphene is a promising system for electronics. It has a point-like Fermi surface, which is very sensitive to external potentials. In particular, Zeeman magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Khodas , I. A. Zaliznyak , D. E. Kharzeev

Superconductors are famously capable of supporting persistent electrical currents, that is, currents that flow without any measurable decay as long as the material is kept in the superconducting state. We introduce here a class of materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-31 Kyle Monkman , Joan Weng , Niclas Heinsdorf , Alberto Nocera , Marcel Franz

Altermagnets have recently emerged as a new platform for spintronics applications, offering spin-split electronic bands despite vanishing net magnetization. Here, we investigate spin-current generation in Dirac altermagnets and identify…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Tomas T. Osterholt , Lumen Eek , Cristiane Morais Smith , Rembert A. Duine

We investigate the propagation of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in a layered half-space system comprising a continuous, sub-wavelength-thick layer weakly adhering to a substrate. Using finite element simulations, we demonstrate that this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Martin Robin , Thomas Dehoux , Maroun Abi Ghanem

Altermagnets are a novel class of materials that combine antiferromagnetic spin ordering with non-relativistic spin splitting (NRSS) in their band structure, making them promising candidates for spintronics applications without requiring…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Niklas Sicheler , Roberto Raimondi , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Lorenzo Del Re

Using the THz emission spectroscopy, we investigate ultrafast spin-to-charge current conversion in epitaxial thin films of the altermagnetic candidate RuO$_2$. We perform a quantitative analysis of competing effects that can contribute to…

The use of spin waves (SWs) as data carriers in spintronic and magnonic logic devices offers operation at low power consumption, free of Joule heating. Nevertheless, the controlled emission and propagation of SWs in magnetic materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Sebastian A. Diaz , Tomoki Hirosawa , Daniel Loss , Christina Psaroudaki

We demonstrate numerically the ability to displace a magnetic domain wall by a remote spin current injection. We consider a long and narrow magnetic nanostripe with a single domain wall (DW). The spin-polarized current is injected…