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We have theoretically investigated the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in a normal metal (NM)/paramagnetic insulator (PI) bilayer system. Through a linear response approach, we calculated the thermal spin pumping from PI to NM and backflow spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Koichi Oyanagi , Saburo Takahashi , Takashi Kikkawa , Eiji Saitoh

Since spin currents can be generated, detected, and manipulated via the spin Hall effect (SHE), the design of strong SHE materials has become a focus in the field of spintronics. Because of the recent experimental progress also the spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-31 Yang Zhang , Qiunan Xu , Klaus Koepernik , Johannes Gooth , Jeroen van den Brink , Claudia Felser , Yan Sun

The theoretical prediction of topological insulators in 2007 triggered tremendous interest. They are of fundamental interest because of their topological twist in k-space, which comes along with unidirectional, spin-polarized surface-state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 T. Schumann , N. Meyer , G. Mussler , J. Kampmeier , D. Grützmacher , E. Schmoranzerova , L. Braun , T. Kampfrath , J. Walowski , M. Münzenberg

Despite being of fundamental importance and potential interest for topological quantum computing, spin-triplet superconductors remain rare in solid state materials after decades of research. In this work, we present a general mechanism for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-22 Valentin Crépel , Liang Fu

A novel process of spin conversion from a temperature gradient to a transverse voltage is addressed in this paper, viz. the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) in a ferromagnetic metal. We report that an additional voltage is superposed on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-12 M. Mizuguchi , K. Hasegawa , J. Ohe , M. Tsujikawa , M. Shirai , K. Takanashi

NbRe is a non-centrosymmetric superconductor that has been proposed as a candidate for intrinsic spin-triplet pairing. However, a conclusive demonstration of triplet pairing in NbRe is yet to be found. To probe the presence of equal-spin…

The Nernst and Seebeck effects are crucial for thermoelectric energy harvesting. However, the linear anomalous Nernst effect requires magnetic materials with intrinsically broken time-reversal symmetry. In non-magnetic systems, the dominant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Harsh Varshney , Amit Agarwal

Thermoelectric modules are a promising approach to energy harvesting and efficient cooling. In addition to the longitudinal Seebeck effect, recently transverse devices utilizing the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) have attracted interest. For…

A first-principles description of the spin Nernst effect, denoting the occurrence of a transverse spin current due to a temperature gradient, is presented. The approach, based on an extension to the Kubo-Streda equation for spin transport,…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-21 S. Wimmer , D. Ködderitzsch , K. Chadova , H. Ebert

Transverse thermoelectric devices produce electric fields perpendicular to an incident heat flux. Classically, this process is driven by the Nernst effect in bulk solids, wherein a magnetic field generates a Lorentz force on thermally…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-04 Stephen R. Boona , Koen Vandaele , Isabel N. Boona , David W. McComb , Joseph P. Heremans

A first-principles description of the spin Nernst effect, denoting the occurrence of a transverse spin current due to a temperature gradient, is presented. The approach, based on an extension to the Kubo-Streda equation for spin transport,…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-22 S. Wimmer , D. Ködderitzsch , K. Chadova , H. Ebert

One efficient mechanism for generating a charge supercurrent is Andreev reflection, in which the electric current injected from a normal metal into a conventional superconductor is converted into a supercurrent, thereby preserving charge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-31 Ping Li , Tao Yu

The spin Nernst effect describes a transverse spin current induced by the longitudinal thermal gradient in a system with the spin-orbit coupling. Here we study the spin Nernst effect in a mesoscopic four-terminal cross-bar Weyl semimetal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Ning-Xuan Yang , Yan-Feng Zhou , Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

We calculate the thermoelectric transport of spin-orbit coupled conduction electrons in the presence of topological spin textures. We show, within a controlled, semiclassical approach that includes all phase space Berry curvatures, that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Zachariah Addison , Lauren Keyes , Mohit Randeria

Electric control of spin in insulators is desired for low-consumption and ultrafast spintronics, but the underlying mechanism remains largely unexplored. Here, we propose an intrinsic effect of dynamic spin generation driven by time-varying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Xukun Feng , Jin Cao , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Lay Kee Ang , Shen Lai , Hua Jiang , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

A semi-classical analysis of magneto-thermopower behaviour, namely, the \textit{Seebeck} and \textit{Nernst} effect (NE) in quantum wells of IV-VI lead salts with significant extrinsic Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) is performed in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Parijat Sengupta , Junxia Shi

In this Letter, we study the spin Nernst effect (SNE) of magnons in the nonlinear response regime. We derive the formula for the nonlinear magnon spin Nernst current by solving the Boltzmann equation and find out that it is described by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Hiroki Kondo , Yutaka Akagi

Intrinsic anomalous Nernst effect (ANE), like its Hall counterpart, is generated by Berry curvature of electrons in solids. Little is known about its response to disorder. In contrast, the link between the amplitude of the ordinary Nernst…

The spin Hall effect allows generation of spin current when charge current is passed along materials with large spin orbit coupling. It has been recently predicted that heat current in a non-magnetic metal can be converted into spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Peng Sheng , Yuya Sakuraba , Yong-Chang Lau , Saburo Takahashi , Seiji Mitani , Masamitsu Hayashi

We identify and investigate thermal spin transport phenomena in sputter-deposited Pt/NiFe$_2$O$_{\textrm{4-x}}$ ($4\geq x \geq 0$) bilayers. We separate the voltage generated by the spin Seebeck effect from the anomalous Nernst effect…