Electronic Pumping of Quasiequilibrium Bose-Einstein-Condensed Magnons
Electronic Pumping of Quasiequilibrium Bose-Einstein-Condensed Magnons
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.108.246601
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发表时间:
2012-06-11
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav
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作者:
Bender, Scott A.;Duine, Rembert A.;Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav
We theoretically investigate spin transfer between a system of quasiequilibrated Bose-Einstein-condensed magnons in an insulator in direct contact with a conductor. While charge transfer is prohibited across the interface, spin transport arises from the exchange coupling between insulator and conductor spins. In a normal insulator phase, spin transport is governed solely by the presence of thermal and spin-diffusive gradients; the presence of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), meanwhile, gives rise to a temperature-independent condensate spin current. Depending on the thermodynamic bias of the system, spin may flow in either direction across the interface, engendering the possibility of a dynamical phase transition of magnons. We discuss the experimental feasibility of observing a BEC steady state (fomented by a spin Seebeck effect), which is contrasted to the more familiar spin-transfer-induced classical instabilities.