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A class of antiferromagnets with spin-polarized electron bands, yet zero net magnetization, called altermagnets is attracting increasing attention due to their potential use in spintronics. Here, we study spin injection into an altermagnet…

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Fully-compensated ferrimagnets exhibit zero net magnetic moment yet display non-relativistic global spin splitting, making them highly advantageous for constructing high-performance spintronic devices. The general strategy is to break the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 San-Dong Guo , Shaobo Chen , Guangzhao Wang

We study the exchange between electron and magnon spins at the interface of an antiferromagnet and a heavy metal at finite temperatures. The underlying physical mechanism is based on spin torque associated with the creation/annihilation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Xi-guang Wang , Yao-Zhuang Nie , L. Chotorlishvili , Qing-lin Xia , J. Berakdar , Guang-hua Guo

The spin-Hall effect describes the interconversion of charge currents and spin currents, enabling highly efficient manipulation of magnetization for spintronics. Symmetry conditions generally restrict polarizations of these spin currents to…

Altermagnets host unconventional spin-polarized bands despite zero net magnetization, but controlling their spin structure remains challenging. We propose a multi-field approach to engineer spin polarization in $d$-wave altermagnets using…

We theoretically propose a nonreciprocal spin Seebeck effect, i.e., nonreciprocal spin transport generated by a temperature gradient, in antiferromagnetic insulators with broken inversion symmetry. We find that nonreciprocity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-16 Rina Takashima , Yuki Shiomi , Yukitoshi Motome

We propose, for the first time, that an array of diamond plaquettes, each possessing vanishing net magnetization, can achieve complete spin polarization over a broad bias window. Furthermore, this system can be utilized to realize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Debjani Das Gupta , Santanu K. Maiti

A theoretical framework is proposed for the spin-current driven synchronized self-oscillations in ferromagnets in the spin Hall geometry. The spin current generated by the spin Hall effect in a bottom nonmagnetic heavy metal excites a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Tomohiro Taniguchi

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

Antiferromagnetic materials with spin splitting have attracted considerable attention for their symmetry-enabled anisotropic spin textures that sustain a zero net magnetization, thereby facilitating efficient spin-current generation. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiabin Wang , Wancheng Zhang , Zhenhua Zhang , Rui Xiong , Yong Liu , Zhihong Lu

We consider spin-polarized transport in a quantum spin Hall antidot system coupled to normal leads. Due to the helical nature of the conducting edge states, the screening potential at the dot region becomes spin dependent without external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , Minchul Lee , David Sanchez

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

Modern magnetic memory technology requires unconventional transverse spin current to achieve deterministic switching of perpendicular magnetization. Spin current in antiferromagnets (AFMs) has been long thought to be trivial as nonmagnets.…

Electrical manipulation of spin textures inside antiferromagnets represents a new opportunity for developing spintronics with superior speed and high device density. Injecting spin currents into antiferromagnets and realizing efficient…

We demonstrate a spin pump to generate pure spin current of tunable intensity and polarization in the absence of charge current. The pumping functionality is achieved by means of an ac gate voltage that modulates the Rashba constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-06 Chia-Hui Lin , Chi-Shung Tang , Yia-Chung Chang

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

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

Compensated ferrimagnets, which break sublattice and time-reversal symmetries in the ground state, exhibit an isotropic ferromagnet-like spin splitting despite a vanishing net magnetization, in contrast to altermagnets with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Xin Theng Lee , Takahiro Misawa , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

New efficient mechanism of obtaining spin polarization in_nonmagnetic_ semiconductors at arbitrary temperutures is described. The effect appears during tunneling of electrons from a nonmagnetic semiconductors (S) into ferromagnet (FM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Bratkovsky , V. V. Osipov

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…