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Current-induced torques originating from earth-abundant 3d elements offer a promising avenue for low-cost and sustainable spintronic memory and logic applications. Recently, orbital currents -- transverse orbital angular momentum flow in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-03 Silvia Damerio , Can O. Avci

Enhancing spin-to-charge (S$\rightarrow$C) conversion efficiency remains a key challenge in spintronic materials research. In this work we investigate the effect of substrate-induced strains onto the S$\rightarrow$C efficiency. On one hand,…

We report spin-current generation related with skyrmion dynamics resonantly excited by a microwave in a helimagnetic insulator $\mathrm{Cu_2OSeO_3}$. A Pt layer was fabricated on $\mathrm{Cu_2OSeO_3}$ and voltage in the Pt layer was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Daichi Hirobe , Yuki Shiomi , Yuhki Shimada , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Eiji Saitoh

An unexpectedly large transient magnetization induced by circularly polarized ferroelectric phonons was recently observed in a nonmagnetic insulator SrTiO3 [Nature 628, 534 (2024)]. We use a minimal molecular orbital model to demonstrate…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-06 Sergei Urazhdin

Recent predictions of orders of magnitude larger orbital current effects compared to spin currents have attracted significant interest. However, the full potential of giant orbital currents remains to be fully harnessed, since so far, the…

Harnessing spin currents to control magnon dynamics enables new functionalities in magnonic devices. Here, we demonstrate current-controlled magnon-magnon coupling between cavity and boundary modes in an ultrathin film of Bi-doped yttrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Hanchen Wang , William Legrand , Richard Schlitz , Pietro Gambardella

We experimentally investigate magnon-polaritons, arising in ferrimagnetic resonance experiments in a microwave cavity with a tuneable quality factor. To his end, we simultaneously measure the electrically detected spin pumping signal and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-07 Hannes Maier-Flaig , Michael Harder , Rudolf Gross , Hans Huebl , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

We investigate the orbit-to-charge conversion in YIG/Pt/nonmagnetic material (NM) trilayer heterostructures. With the additional Ru layer on the top of YIG/Pt stacks, the charge current signal increases nearly an order of magnitude in both…

The magnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) with a ferrimagnetic transition temperature of $\sim$560 K has been widely used in microwave and spintronic devices. Anomalous features in the spin Seeback effect (SSE) voltages have been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-04 Haoran Man , Zhong Shi , Guangyong Xu , Yadong Xu , Xi Chen , Sean Sullivan , Jianshi Zhou , Ke Xia , Jing Shi , Pengcheng Dai

The generation of spin-orbital currents is crucial for advancing energy-efficient spintronic devices. Here, the intricate process involved in the generation and conversion of spin and orbital to charge currents in Zr(t=2, 3, 4.5, 6,…

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

We investigate thermal spin pumping in gadolinium iron garnet (GdIG), focusing on the mode-resolved dynamics of antiferromagnetic magnons and their impact on spin and heat transport. Antiferromagnets support both right-handed and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Adam B. Cahaya

Spin-pumping generates pure spin currents in normal metals at the ferromagnet (F)/normal metal (N) interface. The efficiency of spin-pumping is given by the spin mixing conductance, which depends on N and the F/N interface. We directly…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 O. Mosendz , J. E. Pearson , F. Y. Fradin , S. D. Bader , A. Hoffmann

In gyrotropic crystals, an oscillating magnetic field induces a charge response known as the gyrotropic magnetic current. While its conventional origin is attributed to magnetic field modified band energy and shift in the Fermi-surface, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Koushik Ghorai , Sankar Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We establish a general formulation for spin current pumped by magnons at the interface between a normal metal and a magnetic insulator, valid for any non-collinear magnetic configuration in the linear spin wave regime. This current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Virgile Guemard , Aurélien Manchon

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

We investigate the influence of magnon decays on the non-equilibrium dynamics of parametrically excited magnons in the magnetic insulator yttrium-iron garnet (YIG). Our investigations are motivated by a recent experiment by Noack et al.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-12 Viktor Hahn , Peter Kopietz

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

Spin pumping in ferromagnets provides a source of pure spin currents. Via the inverse spin Hall effect a spin current is converted into a charge current and a corresponding detectable DC-voltage. The ratio of injected spin current to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Obstbaum , M. Härtinger , T. Meier , F. Swientek , C. H. Back , G. Woltersdorf

The damping of spin waves parametrically excited in the magnetic insulator Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) is controlled by a dc current passed through an adjacent normal-metal film. The experiment is performed on a macroscopically sized…