Spin-caloritronic signatures of soft magnons in bilayer CrSBr

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Main Authors: Teuling, Rob den, Tang, Ping, Bauer, Gerrit E. W., Blanter, Yaroslav M.
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Published: 2026
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author Teuling, Rob den
Tang, Ping
Bauer, Gerrit E. W.
Blanter, Yaroslav M.
author_facet Teuling, Rob den
Tang, Ping
Bauer, Gerrit E. W.
Blanter, Yaroslav M.
contents Spin transport in magnetic insulators is often treated by assuming that magnons carry a fixed spin angular momentum of $\hbar$, which does not hold in general, however. Here we calculate the magnon spin angular momentum of a layered antiferromagnet as a function of applied magnetic field and wave vector. We show that the triaxial anisotropy and intralayer dipolar interactions in bilayer CrSBr renormalize the magnon spin angular momentum, which diverges upon field-induced magnon softening. This divergence gives rise to a pronounced peak in the thermal spin Seebeck response and provides a clear spin-caloritronic signature of soft magnons.
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spellingShingle Spin-caloritronic signatures of soft magnons in bilayer CrSBr
Teuling, Rob den
Tang, Ping
Bauer, Gerrit E. W.
Blanter, Yaroslav M.
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Spin transport in magnetic insulators is often treated by assuming that magnons carry a fixed spin angular momentum of $\hbar$, which does not hold in general, however. Here we calculate the magnon spin angular momentum of a layered antiferromagnet as a function of applied magnetic field and wave vector. We show that the triaxial anisotropy and intralayer dipolar interactions in bilayer CrSBr renormalize the magnon spin angular momentum, which diverges upon field-induced magnon softening. This divergence gives rise to a pronounced peak in the thermal spin Seebeck response and provides a clear spin-caloritronic signature of soft magnons.
title Spin-caloritronic signatures of soft magnons in bilayer CrSBr
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18478