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20102024
most citedMagnonic topological insulators in antiferromagnets

141 citations · 697 across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 9 cited

Magnonic Josephson junctions and synchronized precession

Kouki Nakata, Ji Zou, Jelena Klinovaja +1

There has been a growing interest in non-Hermitian physics. One of its main goals is to engineer dissipation and to explore ensuing functionality. In magnonics, the effect of dissi…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

Non-Hermitian Casimir effect of magnons

Kouki Nakata, Kei Suzuki

There has been a growing interest in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics. The key concepts of quantum mechanics are quantum fluctuations. Quantum fluctuations of quantum fields confine…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 18 cited

Magnon dynamics in a Skyrmion-textured domain wall of antiferromagnets

Seungho Lee, Kouki Nakata, Oleg Tchernyshyov +1

We theoretically investigate the interaction between magnons and a Skyrmion-textured domain wall in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet and elucidate the resultant properties of magn…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 6 cited

Violation of the magnonic Wiedemann-Franz law in the strong nonlinear regime

Kouki Nakata, Yuichi Ohnuma, Se Kwon Kim

The celebrated Wiedemann-Franz (WF) law which governs the relation between charge and heat transport traces back to the experimental discovery in 1853 by Wiedemann and Franz. Despi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Direct and alternating magnon spin currents across a junction interface irradiated by linearly polarized laser

Kouki Nakata, Yuichi Ohnuma

The developments in the field of quantum optics raise expectations that laser-matter coupling is a promising building block for magnonics. Here, we propose a method for the generat…

quant-ph2022★ 22 cited

Magnonic Casimir Effect in Ferrimagnets

Kouki Nakata, Kei Suzuki

Quantum fluctuations are the key concepts of quantum mechanics. Quantum fluctuations of quantum fields induce a zero-point energy shift under spatial boundary conditions. This quan…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 4 cited

Optomagnonic Josephson effect in antiferromagnets

Kouki Nakata

Combining advanced technologies of optics and antiferromagnetic spintronics, we present a method to realize ultrafast spin transport. The optical Barnett effect provokes quasiequil…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 10 cited

Magnonic thermal transport using the quantum Boltzmann equation

Kouki Nakata, Yuichi Ohnuma

We present a formula for thermal transport in the bulk of Bose systems based on the quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE). First, starting from the quantum kinetic equation and using th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 10 cited

Optomagnonic Barnett effect

Kouki Nakata, Shintaro Takayoshi

Combining the technologies of quantum optics and magnonics, we find that the circularly polarized laser can dynamically realize the quasiequilibrium magnon Bose-Einstein condensate…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 20 cited

Laser control of magnonic topological phases in antiferromagnets

Kouki Nakata, Se Kwon Kim, Shintaro Takayoshi

We study the laser control of magnon topological phases induced by the Aharonov-Casher effect in insulating antiferromagnets (AFs). Since the laser electric field can be considered…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 2 cited

Universal -suppression of magnonic shot noise in diffusive insulating magnets

Kouki Nakata, Yuichi Ohnuma, Mamoru Matsuo

Extending a Boltzmann-Langevin theory to magnons, we show a universality of current-noise suppression in diffusive systems against the difference of quantum-statistical properties…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 5 cited

Asymmetric quantum shot noise in magnon transport

Kouki Nakata, Yuichi Ohnuma, Mamoru Matsuo

We study a frequency-dependent noise-to-current ratio for asymmetric, symmetric, and noncommutative current-noise in a ferromagnetic insulating junction, and extract quantum-mechan…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 89 cited

Tunable Magnonic Thermal Hall Effect in Skyrmion Crystal Phases of Ferrimagnets

Se Kwon Kim, Kouki Nakata, Daniel Loss +1

We theoretically study the thermal Hall effect by magnons in skyrmion crystal phases of ferrimagnets in the vicinity of the angular momentum compensation point (CP). To this end, w…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 15 cited

Magnonic Noise and Wiedemann-Franz Law

Kouki Nakata, Yuichi Ohnuma, Mamoru Matsuo

We theoretically establish mutual relations among magnetic momentum, heat, and fluctuations of propagating magnons in a ferromagnetic insulating junction in terms of noise and the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 141 cited

Magnonic topological insulators in antiferromagnets

Kouki Nakata, Se Kwon Kim, Jelena Klinovaja +1

Extending the notion of symmetry protected topological phases to insulating antiferromagnets (AFs) described in terms of opposite magnetic dipole moments associated with the magnet…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 98 cited

Magnonic quantum Hall effect and Wiedemann-Franz law

Kouki Nakata, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss

We present a quantum Hall effect of magnons in two-dimensional clean insulating magnets at finite temperature. Through the Aharonov-Casher effect, a magnon moving in an electric fi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 65 cited

Spin Currents and Magnon Dynamics in Insulating Magnets

Kouki Nakata, Pascal Simon, Daniel Loss

Nambu-Goldstone theorem provides gapless modes to both relativistic and nonrelativistic systems. The Nambu-Goldstone bosons in insulating magnets are called magnons or spin-waves a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 45 cited

Wiedemann-Franz Law for Magnon Transport

Kouki Nakata, Pascal Simon, Daniel Loss

One of the main goals of spintronics is to improve transport of information carriers and to achieve new functionalities with ultra-low dissipation. A most promising strategy for th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 25 cited

Magnon transport through microwave pumping

Kouki Nakata, Pascal Simon, Daniel Loss

We present a microscopic theory of magnon transport in ferromagnetic insulators (FIs). Using magnon injection through microwave pumping, we propose a way to generate magnon dc curr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 80 cited

Josephson and Persistent Spin Currents in Bose-Einstein Condensates of Magnons

Kouki Nakata, Kevin A. van Hoogdalem, Pascal Simon +1

Using the Aharonov-Casher (A-C) phase, we present a microscopic theory of the Josephson and persistent spin currents in quasi-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) of magnon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013

Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons in spin pumping systems

Kouki Nakata, Yusuke Korai

We clarify the condition for the occurrence of magnon Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in spin pumping systems without using external pumping magnetic fields. The Goldstone model i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 2 cited

The temperature dependence of quantum spin pumping generated using electron spin resonance with three-magnon splittings

Kouki Nakata

On the basis of the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we have closely investigated the temperature dependence of quantum spin pumping by electron spin resonance. We have clarified that…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 2 cited

Thermal spin pumping mediated by magnon in the semiclassical regime

Kouki Nakata

We microscopically analyze thermal spin pumping mediated by magnons, at the interface between a ferromagnetic insulator and a non-magnetic metal, in the semiclassical regime. The g…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 1 cited

A short note on spin pumping theory with Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation under quantum fluctuation; necessity for quantization of localized spin

Kouki Nakata

We would like to point out the blind spots of the approach combining the spin pumping theory proposed by Tserkovnyak et al. with the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation; this method h…