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Spin currents can be generated through various mechanisms, including the piezospintronic effect, which arises when strain or lattice distortions induce a change in the dipolar spin moment, causing a pure spin current without necessarily…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Martin Latorre , Gaspar De la Barrera , Roberto E. Troncoso , Alvaro S. Nunez

The generation of time-reversal-odd spin-current in metallic altermagnets has attracted considerable interest in spintronics. However, producing pure spin-current in insulating materials remains both challenging and desirable, as insulating…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Ruizhi Dong , Ranquan Cao , Dian Tan , Ruixiang Fei

Pure spin currents, i.e. the transport of angular momentum without an accompanying charge current, represent a new, promising avenue in modern spintronics from both a fundamental and an application point of view. Such pure spin currents can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Matthias Althammer

Spintronics is a field of electronics based on using the electron spin instead of its charge. The recent advance in the manipulation of pure spin currents, i.e. angular momentum transfer not associated to conventional charge currents, has…

The emission of pure spin currents by mechanical deformations, the piezospintronic effect, in antiferromagnets is studied. We characterize the piezospintronic effect in an antiferromagnetic honeycomb monolayer in response to external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Camilo Ulloa , Roberto E. Troncoso , Scott A. Bender , R. A. Duine , A. S. Nunez

Spin current generation through non-relativistic spin splittings, found in uncompensated magnets and d-wave altermagnets, is desirable for low-power spintronics. Such spin currents, however, are symmetry forbidden in conventional collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Sajjan Sheoran , Pratibha Dev

Pure spin currents carry information in quantum spintronics and could play an essential role in the next generation low-energy-consumption electronics. Here we theoretically predict that the magnetic field can induce a quantum spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Extensive efforts are currently being devoted to developing a new electronic technology, called spintronics, where the spin of electrons is explored to carry information. [1,2] Several techniques have been developed to generate pure spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-10 Lalani K. Werake , Hui Zhao

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 current--a flow of electron spins without a charge current--is an ideal information carrier free from Joule heating for electronic devices. The celebrated spin Hall effect, which arises from the relativistic spin-orbit coupling,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 Makoto Naka , Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose , Yuki Yanagi , Yukitoshi Motome , Hitoshi Seo

Two-dimensional topological insulators possess two counter propagating edge channels with op- posite spin direction. Recent experimental progress allowed to create ferromagnetic topological insulators realizing a quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 Matthias Götte , Michael Joppe , Thomas Dahm

Recent advances in the studies of pure spin currents - flows of angular momentum (spin) not accompanied by the electric currents - have opened new horizons for the emerging technologies based on the electron's spin degree of freedom, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 V. E. Demidov , S. Urazhdin , G. de Loubens , O. Klein , V. Cros , A. Anane , S. O. Demokritov

Spin insulatronics covers efforts to generate, detect, control, and utilize high-fidelity pure spin currents and excitations inside magnetic insulators. Ultimately, the new findings may open doors for pure spin-based information and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Arne Brataas , Bart van Wees , Olivier Klein , Gregoire de Loubens , Michel Viret

Spintronics exploits spin-orbit coupling (SOC) to generate spin currents, spin torques, and, in the absence of inversion symmetry, Rashba, and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI). The widely used magnetic materials, based on 3d metals…

We predict a mechanism to generate a pure spin current in a two-dimensional topological insulator. As the magnetic impurities exist on one of edges of the two-dimensional topological insulator, a gap is opened in the corresponding gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Xing-Tao An , Yan-Yang Zhang , Jian-Jun Liu , Shu-Shen Li

Electric currents carrying a net spin polarization are widely used in spintronics, whereas globally spin-neutral currents are expected to play no role in spin-dependent phenomena. Here we show that, in contrast to this common expectation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Ming Li , Chang-Beom Eom , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

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

Contrary to conventional wisdom that spin dynamics induced by current are exclusive to metallic magnets, we theoretically predict that such phenomena can also be realized in magnetic insulators, specifically in the magnetoelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 R. M. Dubrovin , Z. V. Gareeva , A. V. Kimel , A. K. Zvezdin

Spincurrentronics, which involves the generation, propagation and control of spin currents, has attracted a great deal of attention because of the possibility of realizing dissipation-free information propagation. Whereas electrical…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-13 Y. Ando , K. Ichiba , S. Yamada , E. Shikoh , T. Shinjo , K. Hamaya , M. Shiraishi

Recent discovery of orbital currents in several material platforms including light element metals has opened new possibilities for exploring novel transport phenomena and applications to spin-orbitronic devices. These orbital currents,…

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