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Title Onsager relations for the thermal transport through FI|NM interface

Name Jiang Xiao
Country Peoples Rep of China
Email xiaojiang@fudan.edu.cn
Co-Author(s) Jiang Xiao and Gerrit E. W. Bauer
Submit Time 2014-03-27 22:29:56
Session
Special Session 71: Recent progress in spintronics: Experiment, theory and simulation
Contents
For an ferromagnetic insulator (FI) and normal metal (NM) bilayer structure, we predict theoretically that due to magnetic fluctuations, a longitudinal (parallel to equilibrium magnetization) spin current can be injected into a normal metal by applying i) a magnetic field, ii) a spin accumulation in the NM, both parallel to the magnetization, or iii) a temperature difference across the interface. In addition to the previously studied spin Seebeck effect, we find several other previously unknown effects including the recently discovered spin Peltier effect, in which a longitudinal spin accumulation heats up or cools down the magnetization. An Onsager matrix revealing all effects has been identified.