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We theoretically explore the generation of spin current driven by a temperature gradient in a junction between a chiral insulator and a normal metal. Based on the gyromagnetic response induced by microscopic acoustic-phonon-mediated lattice…

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Altermagnets are an emerging class of collinear antiferromagnets that exhibit unconventional spin-polarised electronic bands, potentially unlocking new functionalities that do not rely on spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Experimental signatures…

The resonant coupling of phonons and magnons is important for the interconversion of phononic and spin degrees of freedom. We studied the phonon transmission in LiNbO3 manipulated by the dynamic magnetization in a Ni thin film. It was…

Pure spin currents transport angular momentum without an associated charge flow. This unique property makes them attractive for spintronics applications, such as torque induced magnetization control in nanodevices that can be used for…

The energy-momentum dispersion of magnons, as collective low-energy excitations of magnetic material, is computed from an effective quantum spin Hamiltonian but simplified via linearized Holstein-Primakoff transformations to describe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-22 Federico Garcia-Gaitan , Ali Kefayati , John Q. Xiao , Branislav K. Nikolic

We show how the spin-transfer torque generated by an ac voltage may be used to excite a paramagnetic resonance of an atomic spin deposited on a metallic surface. This mechanism is independent of the environment of the atom and may explain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Alexey M. Shakirov , Alexey N. Rubtsov , Pedro Ribeiro

Hybrid magnonics involving coupling between magnons and different quantum particles have been extensively studied during past few years for varied interests including quantum electrodynamics. In such systems, magnons in magnetic materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Sudip Majumder1 , Samiran Choudhury1 , Saswati Barman2 , Yoshichika Otani3 , 4 , Anjan Barman1

Magnons enable transferring a magnetic moment or spin over macroscopic distance. In quantum Hall ferromagnet, it has been predicted in the early 90s that spin and charges are entangled, meaning that any change of the spin texture modifies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 A. Assouline , M. Jo , P. Brasseur , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , T. Jolicoeur , P. Roche , D. C. Glattli , N. Kumada , F. D. Parmentier , P. Roulleau

We suggest that the phonon dispersion in cuprates becomes strongly anisotropic due to interaction with spin waves; moreover the phonon dispersion becomes singular along $|k_x|=|k_y|$ directions. This would allow more electrons to form…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel L. Miller

In recent studies, it has been discovered that phonons can carry angular momentum, leading to a series of investigations into systems with 3-fold rotation symmetry. However, for systems with 2-fold screw rotational symmetry, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-01 Meiqi Li , Zhibing Li , Huanjun Chen , Weiliang Wang

Magnonics and magnon spintronics aim at the utilization of spin waves and magnons, their quanta, for the construction of wave-based logic networks via the generation of pure all-magnon spin currents and their interfacing with electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Thomas Brächer , Philipp Pirro , Burkard Hillebrands

We explore the tunability of the phonon polarization in suspended uniaxially strained graphene by magneto-phonon resonances. The uniaxial strain lifts the degeneracy of the LO and TO phonons, yielding two cross-linearly polarized phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Jens Sonntag , Sven Reichardt , Bernd Beschoten , Christoph Stampfer

The recent discovery of altermagnetism has sparked growing interest in compensated magnetic systems as promising platforms for highly scalable spintronics. Altermagnetism is a distinct magnetic order where opposite spin sublattices are…

Magnon excitations in antiferromagnetic materials and their physical implications enable novel device concepts not available in ferromagnets, emerging as a new area of active research. A unique characteristic of antiferromagnetic magnons is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

Quasiparticles are central to condensed matter physics, but their stability can be undermined by quantum many-body interactions. Magnons, quasiparticles in quantum magnets, are particularly intriguing because their properties are governed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-25 Rintaro Eto , Matthias Gohlke , Jairo Sinova , Masahito Mochizuki , Alexander L. Chernyshev , Alexander Mook

Magnon-polarons, a type of hybridized excitations between magnons and phonons, were first reported in yttrium iron garnet as anomalies in the spin Seebeck effect responses. Here we report an observation of antiferromagnetic (AFM)…

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic systems possess versatile magnetic order and can host tunable magnons carrying spin angular momenta. Recent advances show angular momentum can also be carried by lattice vibrations in the form of chiral…

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

Flexible manipulation of terahertz-wave polarization during the generation process is very important for terahertz applications, especially for the next-generation on-chip functional terahertz sources. However, current terahertz emitters…

Surface plasmons are the collective electron excitations in metallic systems and the associated electromagnetic wave usually has the transverse magnetic (TM) polarization. On the other hand, spin waves are the spin excitations perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 H. Y. Yuan , Yaroslav M. Blanter , H. Q. Lin