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Spin thermal effects

A new member of the Hall family

Nature Materials volume 16, pages 968–969 (2017)Cite this article

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The spin Nernst effect — a spin accumulation in a ferromagnet in the direction normal to an applied thermal gradient and external magnetic field — has been experimentally demonstrated.

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Figure 1: Hall and Nernst effects.

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