Toshiya Ideue

Observation of the Magnon Hall Effect

Observing the Magnon Hall Effect The anomalous thermal Hall effect occurs when transverse heat transport is generated in the absence of an external magnetic field. The transport may be mediated by free carriers, phonons, or spin waves (magnons). Onose et al. (p. 297) observed this effect in an insulating ferromagnet and were able to rule out free carriers and phonons as the mediators of the thermal transport. Instead, the observations are consistent with a theory ascribing its origin to magnon propagation. This thermal magnon Hall effect is caused by the spin-orbit interaction, which acts in a fashion similar to the magnetic field in the conventional Hall effect. Its observation in an insulator may enable the elimination of losses in spintronic applications. Spin excitations in an insulating ferromagnet exhibit an anomalous thermal Hall effect. The Hall effect usually occurs in conductors when the Lorentz force acts on a charge current in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. Neutral quasi-particles such as phonons and spins can, however, carry heat current and potentially exhibit the thermal Hall effect without resorting to the Lorentz force. We report experimental evidence for the anomalous thermal Hall effect caused by spin excitations (magnons) in an insulating ferromagnet with a pyrochlore lattice structure. Our theoretical analysis indicates that the propagation of the spin waves is influenced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya spin-orbit interaction, which plays the role of the vector potential, much as in the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in metallic ferromagnets.

Thermal Generation of Spin Current in an Antiferromagnet.

The longitudinal spin Seebeck effect has been investigated for a uniaxial antiferromagnetic insulator Cr(2)O(3), characterized by a spin-flop transition under magnetic field along the c axis. We have found that a temperature gradient applied normal to the Cr(2)O(3)/Pt interface induces inverse spin Hall voltage of spin-current origin in Pt, whose magnitude turns out to be always proportional to magnetization in Cr(2)O(3). The possible contribution of the anomalous Nernst effect is confirmed to be negligibly small. The above results establish that an antiferromagnetic spin wave can be an effective carrier of spin current.

Effect of lattice geometry on magnon Hall effect in ferromagnetic insulators

We have investigated the thermal Hall effect of magnons for various ferromagnetic insulators. For pyrochlore ferromagnetic insulators Lu

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Giant thermal Hall effect in multiferroics

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Thermal generation of spin current in a multiferroic helimagnet

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Electric-field Control of Electronic States in WS 2 Nanodevices by Electrolyte Gating

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Exciton Hall effect in monolayer MoS 2

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Bulk rectification effect in a polar semiconductor

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Pressure variation of Rashba spin splitting toward topological transition in the polar semiconductor BiTeI

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