Ac current generation in chiral magnetic insulators and Skyrmion motion induced by the spin seebeck effect

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 18, 2014, Pages

  Lin, Shi Zeng ^a   Batista, Cristian D ^a   Reichhardt, Charles ^a   Saxena, Avadh ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

AC CURRENTS; CHIRAL MAGNETS; COLD REGIONS; MAGNETIC INSULATOR; MAGNONIC SPIN TRANSFER TORQUES; MULTIFERROICS; SKYRMIONS;

THERMAL GRADIENTS;

EID: 84900438637     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.187203     Document Type: Article

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