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We report two non-degenerate magnon modes with opposite spins or chiralities in collinearly antiferromagnetic insulators driven by symmetry-governed anisotropic exchange couplings. The consequent giant spin splitting contributes to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Qirui Cui , Bowen Zeng , Tao Yu , Hongxin Yang , Ping Cui

Magnon band structures in altermagnets are characterized by an energy splitting of modes with opposite chirality, even in the absence of applied external fields and relativistic effects, due to an anisotropy in the Heisenberg exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-03 Markus Weißenhofer , Alberto Marmodoro

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

Altermagnets exhibit a spin-split band structure despite having zero net magnetization, leading to special magnonic properties such as anisotropic magnon lifetimes and field-free spin transport. Here, we present a direct experimental…

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

The thermal transport of magnons has attracted substantial attention as an energy-efficient alternative to the transport of electrons. Most theoretical studies so far have been carried out within the frame of the linear spin-wave theory,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

In the absence of an external magnetic field and a spin-polarized charge current, an antiferromagnetic system supports two degenerate magnon modes. An applied thermal bias activates the magnetic dynamics, leading to a magnon flow from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 L. Chotorlishvili , Xi-guang Wang , A. Dyrdal , Guang-hua Guo , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

Generating spin magnetization and spin currents without magnetic or electric fields is a key frontier in spin caloritronics. Spin responses driven by thermal gradients offer a promising route, though the band geometric origin of intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Sankar Sarkar , Harsh Varshney , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

Efficient transport of spin and orbital moments, and their electrical detection, are among the main challenges in spintronics and orbitronics. In magnetic insulators, these currents are mediated by magnons. In addition to carrying spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Sankar Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We microscopically analyze thermal spin pumping mediated by magnons, at the interface between a ferromagnetic insulator and a non-magnetic metal, in the semiclassical regime. The generation of a spin current is discussed by calculating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Kouki Nakata

Altermagnets present a class of fully compensated collinear magnetic order, where the two sublattices are not related merely by time-reversal combined with lattice translation or inversion, but require an additional lattice rotation. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Subhankar Khatua , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Jeroen van den Brink

Nambu-Goldstone theorem provides gapless modes to both relativistic and nonrelativistic systems. The Nambu-Goldstone bosons in insulating magnets are called magnons or spin-waves and play a key role in magnetization transport. We review…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Kouki Nakata , Pascal Simon , Daniel Loss

We theoretically propose quantum spin pumping mediated by magnons, under a time-dependent transverse magnetic field, at the interface between a ferromagnetic insulator and a non-magnetic metal. The generation of a spin current under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-31 Kouki Nakata

Altermagnet is a distinctive magnet phase, which has spin-split energy band but with zero net magnetic moment. In this paper, we propose that altermagnet behaves spin splitting Nernst effect: Under a longitudinal temperature gradient, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Xing-Jian Yi , Yue Mao , Xiancong Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

Applications based on spin currents strongly profit from the control and reduction of their effective damping and their transport properties. We here experimentally observe magnon mediated transport of spin (angular) momentum through a 13.4…

We develop a symmetry-controlled theory of anisotropic thermomagnonic torques in insulating altermagnets. We identify a spin-splitter magnonic torque linked to thermally generated, sublattice-odd spin currents and an anisotropic entropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Edward Schwartz , Hamed Vakili , Alexey A. Kovalev

Recent experiments observe the spin-wave-Meissner-current modes in ferromagnetic insulator-superconductor heterostructures, in which the coherently excited spin waves seemingly do not decay as usual beneath the superconductor strip [Borst…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Xi-Han Zhou , Xiyin Ye , Lihui Bai , Tao Yu

This article reviews the principles that govern the combined transport of spin, heat, and charge. The extensive thermodynamic quantity associated with spin transport is the magnetization; its Onsager-conjugate force is in general the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Joseph P. Heremans

We present a unified quantum field theory for Dirac magnons coupled to emergent gauge fields. At zero temperature, any space- and time-dependent gauge perturbation drives magnons out of equilibrium, generating spin currents and magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Luis Fernández , Ka Shen , Leandro O. Nascimento , Van Sérgio Alves , Roberto E. Troncoso , Nicolas Vidal-Silva

Electrically injected and detected nonlocal magnon transport has emerged as a versatile method for transporting spin as well as probing the spin excitations in a magnetic insulator. We examine the role of drift currents in this phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Sebastián de-la-Peña , Richard Schlitz , Saül Vélez , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Akashdeep Kamra
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