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Journal Articles

Magnetic orderings from spin-orbit coupled electrons on kagome lattice

Watanabe, Jin*; Araki, Yasufumi; Kobayashi, Koji*; Ozawa, Akihiro*; Nomura, Kentaro*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 91(8), p.083702_1 - 083702_5, 2022/08

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.91.083702

Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：58.88(Physics, Multidisciplinary)

We investigate magnetic orderings on kagome lattice numerically from the tight-binding Hamiltonian of electrons, governed by the filling factor and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) of electrons. We find that even a simple kagome lattice model can host both ferromagnetic and noncollinear antiferromagnetic orderings depending on the electron filling, reflecting gap structures in the Dirac and flat bands characteristic to the kagome lattice. Kane-Mele- or Rashba-type SOC tends to stabilize noncollinear orderings, such a magnetic spirals and 120-degree antiferromagnetic orderings, due to the effective Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction from SOC. The obtained phase structure helps qualitative understanding of magnetic orderings in various kagome-layered materials with Weyl or Dirac electrons.

Journal Articles

Nodal lines and boundary modes in topological Dirac semimetals with magnetism

Araki, Yasufumi; Watanabe, Jin*; Nomura, Kentaro*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 90(9), p.094702_1 - 094702_9, 2021/09

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.90.094702

Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：16.57(Physics, Multidisciplinary)

While nodal-line semimetals with magnetism have been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in a few compounds, idea on the relation between the magnetic order and the electronic structure is still limited. We theoretically explore the electronic structure in bulk and boundary of such a magnetic nodal-line state by introducing magnetism in topological Dirac semimetal (TDSM). TDSMs, such as $mathrm{Cd_3 As_2}$ and $mathrm{Na_3 Bi}$ ,are characterized by a pair of spin-degenerate Dirac points protected by rotational symmetries of crystals. By introducing local magnetic moments coupled to the electron spins in the lattice model of TDSM, we show that the TDSM can turn into either a Weyl semimetal or a nodal-line semimetal, which is determined by the orbital dependence in the exchange coupling and the direction of magnetization formed by the magnetic moments. In this magnetic nodal-line semimetal state, we find zero modes with drumhead-like band structure at the boundary that are characterized by the topological number of . Those zero modes are numerically demonstrated by introducing magnetic domain walls in the lattice model.

Journal Articles

Microscopic theory of electrically induced spin torques in magnetic Weyl semimetals

Kurebayashi, Daichi*; Araki, Yasufumi; Nomura, Kentaro*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 90(8), p.084702_1 - 084702_9, 2021/08

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.90.084702

Times Cited Count：8 Percentile：61.42(Physics, Multidisciplinary)

We theoretically study current- and charge-induced spin torque in magnetic Weyl semimetals. In magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSM), topologically nontrivial band structure mediates anomalous coupling between magnetization and transport, making WSMs preferable for spintronics systems. In this paper, we determine all current-induced spin torques including spin-orbit torque and spin-transfer torque, up to first order with respect to spatial and temporal derivatives and electrical currents. We also calculate the charge-induced spin torque microscopically. We find the charge-induced spin torque originates from the chiral anomaly due to the correspondence between spin operators and axial current operators in our model.

Journal Articles

Long-range spin transport on the surface of topological Dirac semimetal

Araki, Yasufumi; Misawa, Takahiro*; Nomura, Kentaro*

Physical Review Research (Internet), 3(2), p.023219_1 - 023219_15, 2021/06

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.023219

We theoretically propose the long-range spin transport mediated by the gapless surface states of topological Dirac semimetal (TDSM). Low-dissipation spin current is a building block of next-generation spintronics devices. While conduction electrons in metals and spin waves in ferromagnetic insulators (FMIs) are the major carriers of spin current, their propagation length is inevitably limited due to the Joule heating or the Gilbert damping. In order to suppress dissipation and realize long-range spin transport, we here make use of the spin-helical surface states of TDSMs, such as CdAs and NaBi, which are robust against disorder. Based on a junction of two FMIs connected by a TDSM, we demonstrate that the magnetization dynamics in one FMI induces a spin current on the TDSM surface flowing to the other FMI. By both the analytical transport theory on the surface and the numerical simulation of real-time evolution in the bulk, we find that the induced spin current takes a universal semi-quantized value that is insensitive to the microscopic coupling structure between the FMI and the TDSM. We show that this surface spin current is robust against disorder over a long range, which indicates that the TDSM surface serves as a promising system for realizing spintronics devices.

Journal Articles

Dynamical spin-to-charge conversion on the edge of quantum spin Hall insulator

Araki, Yasufumi; Misawa, Takahiro*; Nomura, Kentaro*

Physical Review Research (Internet), 2(2), p.023195_1 - 023195_11, 2020/05

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023195

Journal Articles

Spin-electricity conversion induced by spin injection into topological insulators

Shiomi, Yuki*; Nomura, Kentaro*; Kajiwara, Yosuke*; Eto, Kazuma*; Novak, M.*; Segawa, Koji*; Ando, Yoichi*; Saito, Eiji

Physical Review Letters, 113(19), p.196601_1 - 196601_5, 2014/11

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.196601

Times Cited Count：272 Percentile：99.03(Physics, Multidisciplinary)

JAEA Reports

Study on dissolution of UO $_{2}$ to obtain the high U solution

; *; Sakurai, Koji*; ; Nomura, Kazunori; *

JNC TN8400 2000-032, 98 Pages, 2000/12

JNC-TN8400-2000-032.pdf:1.94MB

Concerning the preparation of high U solution for the crystallization process and the application of UO $_{2}$ powder dissolution to that, the effects of final U concentration, dissolution temperature, nitric acid concentration and powder size on the dissolution of UO $_{2}$ powder in the nitric acid where the final U concentration was 800g/L were investigated. The experimental results showed that the solubility of UO $_{2}$ decreased with the increase of final UO $_{2}$ concentration and powder size, and with the decrease of dissolution temperature and nitric acid concentration. It was also confirmed that in the condition where the final U concentration was sufficiently lower than the solubility of U, UO $_{2}$ dissolution behavior in the high U solution could be estimated with the equation based on the fragmentation model which we had already reported. Based on these experimental results, the dissolution behavior of irradiated MOX fuel in high U solution was estimated and the possibility of supplying high U solution to the crystallization process was discussed. In the preparation of high U solution for the crystallization process, it was estimated that the present dissolution process (dissolution for fuel pieces of about 3cm long) needed a lot of time to obtain a high dissolution yield, but it was shorted drastically by the pulverization of fuel pieces. The burst of off-gas at the early in the dissolution of fuel powder seems to be avoidable with setting the appropriate dissolution condition, and it is important to optimize the dissolution condition with considering the capacity of off-gas treatment process.