Alexander MOOK
MPI Halle
The interplay of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and magnetism gives rise to a plethora of unconventional charge/heat-to-spin conversion phenomena in solids that harbor great potential for spintronic applications. Accounting for both the metallic and insulating states of matter, electrons as well as magnons emerge as two prominent spin carriers.
In this talk, I focus on selected aspects of SOC-driven phenomena in magnets with ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic textures. Among those are (i) the thermal Hall effect of magnons in magnon Chern phases, (ii) spin-polarized magnon currents in fully compensated antiferromagnets, and (iii) spin current vortices that give rise to a magnetic spin Hall effect, the time-reversal odd cousin of the usual spin Hall effect.