The discovery of new materials that efficiently transmit spin currents has been important for spintronics and material science. The electric insulator Gd3Ga5O12 (GGG), a standard substrate for growing magnetic films, can be a spin current generator, but has never been considered as a superior conduit for spin currents. Here we report spin current propagation in paramagnetic GGG over several microns. Surprisingly, spin transport persists up to temperatures of 100 K Tg = 180 mK, the magnetic glass-like transition temperature of GGG. At 5 K and 3.5 T, we find a spin diffusion length λGGG = 1.8 ± 0.2 μm and a spin conductivity σGGG = (7.3 ± 0.3) × 104 Sm−1 that is larger than that of the record quality magnet Y3Fe5O12 (YIG). We conclude that exchange stiffness is not required for efficient spin transport, which challenges conventional models and provides new material-design strategies for spintronic devices.
The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) is observed in magnetic insulator|heavy metal bilayers as an inverse spin Hall effect voltage under a temperature gradient. The SSE can be detected nonlocally as well, viz. in terms of the voltage in a second metallic contact (detector) on the magnetic film, spatially separated from the first contact that is used to apply the temperature bias (injector). Magnon-polarons are hybridized lattice and spin waves in magnetic materials, generated by the magnetoelastic interaction. Kikkawa et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 207203 (2016)] interpreted a resonant enhancement of the local SSE in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) as a function of the magnetic field in terms of magnon-polaron formation. Here we report the observation of magnon-polarons in nonlocal magnon spin injection/detection devices for various injector-detector spacings and sample temperatures. Unexpectedly, we find that the magnon-polaron resonances can suppress rather than enhance the nonlocal SSE. Using finite element modelling we explain our observations as a competition between the SSE and spin diffusion in YIG. These results give unprecedented insights into the magnon-phonon interaction in a key magnetic material.When sound travels through a magnet the local distortions of the lattice exert torques on the magnetic order due to the magnetoelastic coupling 1 . By reciprocity, spin waves in a magnet affect the lattice dynamics. The coupling between spin and lattice waves (magnons and phonons) has been intensively researched in the last half century 2,3 . Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) has been a singularly useful material here, because it can be grown with exceptional magnetic and acoustic quality 2 . Magnons and phonons hybridize at the (anti)crossing of their dispersion relations, a regime that has attracted recent attention [4][5][6][7][8][9][10] . When the quasiparticle lifetimebroadening is smaller than the interaction strength, the strong coupling regime is reached; the resulting fully mixed quasiparticles have been referred to as magnonpolarons 6,7 .In spite of the long history and ubiquity of the magnonphonon interaction, it still leads to surprises. Evidence of a sizeable magnetoelastic coupling in YIG was recently found in experiments on spin caloritronic effects, i.e. the spin Peltier 11 and spin Seebeck effect 12,13 (SPE and SSE respectively). Recently, Kikkawa et al. showed that the hybridization of magnons and phonons can lead to a resonant enhancement of the local SSE in YIG 9 . Bozhko et al. found that this hybridization can play a role in the thermalization of parametrically excited magnons using Brillouin light scattering. They observed an accumulation of magnon-polarons in the spectral region near the anticrossing between the magnon and transverse acoustic phonon modes 14 . However, these previous experiments did not address the transport properties of magnon-polarons.Nonlocal spin injection and detection experiments are of great importance in probing the transport of spin in metals 15 , semiconductors 16 and graphene 1...
We report the observation of magnetic-field-induced suppression of the spin Peltier effect (SPE) in a junction of a paramagnetic metal Pt and a ferrimagnetic insulator Y 3 Fe 5 O 12 (YIG) at room temperature. For driving the SPE, spin currents are generated via the spin Hall effect from applied charge currents in the Pt layer, and injected into the adjacent thick YIG film. The resultant temperature modulation is detected by a commonly-used thermocouple attached to the Pt/YIG junction. The output of the thermocouple shows sign reversal when the magnetization is reversed and linearly increases with the applied current, demonstrating the detection of the SPE signal.We found that the SPE signal decreases with the magnetic field. The observed suppression rate was found to be comparable to that of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE), suggesting the dominant and similar contribution of the low-energy magnons in the SPE as in the SSE. * IGUCHI.Ryo@nims.go.jp 1 arXiv:1709.08997v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
Electric current has been used to send electricity to far distant places. On the other hand, spin current, a flow of electron spin, can in principle also send angular momentum to distant places. In a magnet, there is a universal spin carrier called a spin wave, a wave-type excitation of magnetization. Since spin waves exhibit a long propagation length, it should be able to send angular momentum that can generate torque and force at a distant place: a new function of magnets. Here we observe mechanical angular momentum transmission and force generation due to spin waves injected into Y 3 Fe 5 O 12 by the spin-Seebeck effect. The spin-wave current, transmitted through a Y 3 Fe 5 O 12 micro cantilever, was found to create a mechanical force on the cantilever as a non-local reaction of the spin-Seebeck effect. Spin-wave current can be generated remotely even in open circuits, and it can be used to drive micro mechanical devices.
We report the nonlocal spin Seebeck effect (nlSSE) in a lateral configuration of Pt/Y 3 Fe 5 O 12 (YIG)/Pt systems as a function of the magnetic field B (up to 10 T) at various temperatures T (3 K < T < 300 K). The nlSSE voltage decreases with increasing B in a linear regime with respect to the input power (the applied charge-current squared I 2 ). The reduction of the nlSSE becomes substantial when the Zeeman energy exceeds thermal energy at low temperatures, which can be interpreted as freeze-out of magnons relevant for the nlSSE. Furthermore, we found the non-linear power dependence of the nlSSE with increasing I at low temperatures (T < 20 K), at which the B-induced signal reduction becomes less visible. Our experimental results suggest that in the non-linear regime high-energy magnons are over populated than those expected from the thermal energy. We also estimate the magnon spin diffusion length as functions of B and T .
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