Surface spintronics enhanced photo-catalytic hydrogen evolution: mechanisms, strategies, challenges and future

W Zhang, W Gao, X Zhang, Z Li, G Lu - Applied Surface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Hydrogen is a green energy carrier with high enthalpy and zero environmental pollution
emission characteristics. Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution (HER) is a sustainable and …

Josephson and persistent spin currents in Bose-Einstein condensates of magnons

K Nakata, KA van Hoogdalem, P Simon, D Loss - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
Using the Aharonov-Casher (AC) phase, we present a microscopic theory of the Josephson
and persistent spin currents in quasiequilibrium Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) of …

Curvature-induced long-range supercurrents in diffusive superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson junctions with a dynamic transition

T Salamone, MBM Svendsen, M Amundsen… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We report that spin supercurrents can be induced in diffusive superconductor-ferromagnet-
superconductor Josephson junctions without any magnetic misalignment or intrinsic spin …

Nematic versus ferromagnetic spin filtering of triplet Cooper pairs in superconducting spintronics

A Moor, AF Volkov, KB Efetov - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We consider two types of magnetic Josephson junctions (JJ). They are formed by two singlet
superconductors S and magnetic layers between them so that the JJ is a heterostructure of …

Magnetic domain walls as hosts of spin superfluids and generators of skyrmions

SK Kim, Y Tserkovnyak - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
A domain wall in a magnet with easy-axis anisotropy is shown to harbor spin superfluid
associated with its spontaneous breaking of the U (1) spin-rotational symmetry. The spin …

Magnetoelectric torque and edge currents in spin-orbit coupled graphene nanoribbons

MSM de Sousa, M Sigrist, W Chen - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
For graphene nanoribbons with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the peculiar magnetic response
due to the presence of a magnetization and geometric confinement are analyzed within a …

Monopole Josephson effects in a Dirac spin liquid

G Nambiar, D Bulmash, V Galitski - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Dirac spin liquids (DSLs) are gapless featureless states, yet interesting by virtue of the
effective field theory describing them—(2+ 1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED …

Exact treatment of magnetism-driven ferroelectricity in the one-dimensional compass model

WL You, GH Liu, P Horsch, AM Oleś - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We consider a class of one-dimensional compass models with antisymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-
Moriya exchange interaction in an external magnetic field. Based on the exact solution …

Acoustic spin transport by superconducting quasiparticles

T Funato, A Yamakage, M Matsuo - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We theoretically study the generation of spin current due to a surface acoustic wave (SAW)
in a superconductor. We model an s-wave superconductor as the mean-field Hamiltonian …

Theory of drift-enabled control in nonlocal magnon transport

S De-La-Peña, R Schlitz, S Vélez… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Electrically injected and detected nonlocal magnon transport has emerged as a versatile
method for transporting spin as well as probing the spin excitations in a magnetic insulator …