Numerical study on the thermally driven spin-wave spin current

Oe, Junichiro; Adachi, Hiroto; Takahashi, Saburo; Maekawa, Sadamichi

Recently, the relation between the heat current and the spin current has much attracted from the view of the spintronics applications. The heat current induces the spin current, the spin Seebeck effect, has been discovered not only inferromagnetic metals but also in ferromagnetic semiconductors and ferromagnetic insulators. In this reports, we investigate the spin Seebeck effect by using the numerical simulation. We focus on the dynamics of the magnetization in the presence of the fluctuating torque which represents finite temperatures. The spin current is driven by the magnetization dynamics and converted to the charge current in a normal metal probe. We use the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for calculating the magnetization dynamics and the diffusion equation for the dynamics of the conduction electrons. Our results show good agreement with the experimental results qualitatively.