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Rembert Duine
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Faculteit Betawetenschappen
Utrecht University
Leuvenlaan 4
3584 CE Utrecht
The Netherlands
E-mail address: lastname AT phys DOT uu DOT nl

Office: MG 310
Phone: ++31(0)30-2532289
Fax: ++31(0)30-2535937

I am a "Universitair Hoofddocent" (~ Assoc. Prof.) at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University. My current research is focused mostly on spintronics: the research discipline concerned with exploiting the spin degree of freedom of the electron in applications. Spintronics combines efforts of materials nanoscience, nano-electronics, and condensed-matter physics. My expertise is in theoretical condensed-matter physics.

My CV
Ph. D. positions
-Vidi Grant, 2007 (press release). -starting independent researcher grant Grant, 2008 (more info here). Support by is gratefully acknowledged.

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• Dion Hartmann has won the Science and Technology Student Award for his proposal to do bachelor research in spintronics in our group. For more info see here and here. Click here for a poster that Dion made about his research.
• From April 2-9, 2013, we co-organized the NewSpin3 conference and school on "Spin-phenomena: From Model Systems to Complex Matter" in Mainz, Germany. For more info see here. This is a sequel to "NewSpin2: Spin physics and topological effects in cold atoms, condensed matter, and beyond", and this workshop that we initiated in Utrecht.

• The slides for the spintronics tutorial at the 2011 APS March Meeting can be found here.
• Lecture notes on spintronics
  [Continuously-updated lecture notes and exercises that grew out of the course "spintronics" taught at Utrecht university in Spring 2007. Topics discussed are: path integrals for spins, ferromagnetism, spin valves, spin transfer torques, current and field-driven domain wall motion, and the spin Hall effect. There is also a short appendix on transport and disordered electrons. Feel free to use these notes but please refer appropriately.]
• Quantum Fields in Condensed Matter (Spring 2008)
  [Follow this link to the course website (no longer updated).]
• Student Seminar Theoretical Physics "Ultracold Quantum Gases" (Fall 2007)
  [Follow this link to the course website (no longer updated).]
• Spintronics (Spring 2007)
  [Follow this link to the course website (no longer updated).]

• On December 12th, Hedwig van Driel successfully defended her Ph. D. Thesis.
• On September 16th, Martijn Mink successfully defended his Ph. D. Thesis.
• On May 16th, Ties Lucassen successfully defended his Ph. D. Thesis.
• On March 2nd, Aaron Swaving successfully defended his Ph. D. Thesis.

Publications/Preprints

Spintronics

• Domain-wall-controlled transverse spin injection
  [E. van der Bijl, R. E. Troncoso, and R. A. Duine, submitted (2012)]
  
  
• Current-induced torques in textured Rashba ferromagnets
  [E. van der Bijl and R. A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 86, 094406 (2012)]
  
  
• Electronic Pumping of Quasiequilibrium Bose-Einstein Condensed Magnons
  [Scott A. Bender, Rembert A. Duine, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 246601 (2012)]
  
  
• Influence of a transport current on a domain wall in an antiferromagnetic metal
  [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 24, 024223 (2012), part of the Special issue on domain wall dynamics in nanostructures, edited by C.H. Marrows and G. Meier.]
  
  
• Spin-transfer mechanism for magnon-drag thermopower
  [M.E. Lucassen, C.H. Wong, R.A. Duine, and Y. Tserkovnyak, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 262506 (2011)]
  
  
• Spin motive forces due to magnetic vortices and domain walls
  [M.E. Lucassen, G.C.F.L. Kruis, R. Lavrijsen, H.J.M. Swagten, B. Koopmans, and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 84, 014414 (2011)]
  
  
• Current induced rotational torques in the skyrmion lattice phase of chiral magnets
  [Karin Everschor, Markus Garst, R. A. Duine, and Achim Rosch, Phys. Rev. B 84, 064401 (2011)]
  
  
• An alternating Alternative
  [Rembert Duine, Nature Materials 10, 344 (2011)]
  
  
• Current-induced torques in continuous antiferromagnetic textures
  [A.C. Swaving and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 83, 054428 (2011)]
  
  
• Spin Transfer Torques in MnSi at Ultra-low Current Densities
  [F. Jonietz, S. Muehlbauer, C. Pfleiderer, A. Neubauer, W. Muenzer, A. Bauer, T. Adams, R. Georgii, P. Boeni, R. A. Duine, K. Everschor, M. Garst, A. Rosch, Science 330, 1648 (2010)]
  
  
• Non-adiabatic spin torque investigated using thermally activated magnetic domain wall dynamics
  [M. Eltschka, M. Woetzel, J. Rhensius, S. Krzyk, U. Nowak, M. Klaeui, T. Kasama, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, L. J. Heyderman, H. J. van Driel, R. A. Duine, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056601 (2010)]
  
  
• Spin motive forces and current fluctuations due to Brownian motion of domain walls
  [M.E. Lucassen and R.A. Duine, Solid State Commun. 150, 538 (2010)]
  Appeared in "Special issue: Spin Caloritronics", edited by G.E.W. Bauer, A.H. MacDonald, and S. Maekawa.
  
  
• Fluctuations of current-driven domain walls in the non-adiabatic regime
  [M.E. Lucassen and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 80, 144421 (2009)]
  
  
• Current-driven and field-driven domain walls at nonzero temperature
  [M.E. Lucassen, H.J. van Driel, C. Morais Smith, and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 79, 224411 (2009)]
  
  
• Current-induced spin torques in III-V ferromagnetic semiconductors
  [Dimitrie Culcer, M. E. Lucassen, R. A. Duine, and R. Winkler, Phys. Rev. B 79, 155208 (2009)]
  
  
• Anomalous low-frequency noise in synthetic antiferromagnets: Possible evidence of current-induced domain-wall motion
  [D. Herranz, R. Guerrero, R. Villar, F.G. Aliev, A.C. Swaving, R.A. Duine, C. van Haesendonck, and I.Vavra, Phys. Rev. B 79, 134423 (2009)]
  
  
• Effects of non-adiabaticity on the voltage generated by a moving domain wall
  [R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 79, 014407 (2009)]
  
  
• Creep of current-driven domain-wall lines: intrinsic versus extrinsic pinning
  [R.A. Duine and C. Morais Smith, Phys. Rev. B 77, 094434 (2008)]
  See also this figure.
  
  
• Current-Induced Torques in Magnetic Metals: Beyond Spin Transfer
  [P. M. Haney, R. A. Duine, A. S. Nunez, and A. H. MacDonald, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 320, 1300 (2008)]
  
  
• Effective temperature and Gilbert damping of a current-driven localized spin
  [A.S. Nunez and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 77, 054401 (2008)]
  
  
• Spin pumping by a field-driven domain wall
  [R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 77, 014409 (2008)]
  See also this talk.
  
  
• Current Induced Order Parameter Dynamics: Microscopic Theory Applied to Co/Cu/Co spin valves
  [P.M. Haney, D. Waldron, R.A. Duine, A.S. Nunez, H. Guo, and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 76, 024404 (2007)]
  
  
• Functional Keldysh Theory of Spin Torques
  [R.A. Duine, A.S. Nunez, Jairo Sinova, and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 75, 214420 (2007)]
  
  
• Ab-initio GMR and current-induced torques in Cr/Au/Cr multilayers
  [P.M. Haney, D. Waldron, R.A. Duine, A.S. Nunez, H. Guo, and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 75, 174428 (2007)]
  
  
• Changing Exchange Bias in Spin Valves with an Electric Current
  [Z. Wei, A. Sharma, A.S. Nunez, P.M. Haney, R.A. Duine, J. Bass, A.H. MacDonald, and M. Tsoi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 116603 (2007)]
  
  
• Inelastic scattering in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic metal spin valves
  [R.A. Duine, P.M. Haney, A.S. Nunez, and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 75, 014433 (2007)]
  
  
• Thermally-Assisted Current-Driven Domain Wall Motion
  [R.A. Duine, A.S. Nunez, and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056605 (2007)]
  See also this talk.
  
  
• Theory of Spin Torques and Giant Magnetoresistance in Antiferromagnetic Metals
  [A.S. Nunez, R.A. Duine, P.M. Haney and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 73, 214426 (2006)]
  See also this talk.

Cold-Atom Systems

• Quantum rotor model for a Bose-Einstein condensate of dipolar molecules
  [J. Armaitis, R.A. Duine, and H.T.C. Stoof, submitted (2013)]
  
  
• Magnetization relaxation and geometric forces in a Bose ferromagnet
  [J. Armaitis, H.T.C. Stoof, and R.A. Duine, submitted (2013)]
  
  
• Topological transport in a spin-orbit coupled bosonic Mott insulator
  [C. H. Wong and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 115301 (2013)]
  
  
• Spin Drag in a Bose Gas
  [S.B. Koller, A. Groot, P.C. Bons, R.A. Duine, H.T.C. Stoof, and P. van der Straten, submitted (2012)]
  This paper reports on the first experimental observation of spin drag in a Bose gas and was motivated in large part by our theory work.
  
  
• Spin transport in a unitary Fermi gas close to the BCS transition
  [M. P. Mink, V. P. J. Jacobs, Marco Polini, G. Vignale, H. T. C. Stoof, R. A. Duine, Phys. Rev. A 86, 063631 (2012)]
  
  
• Spin-Seebeck effect in a strongly interacting Fermi gas
  [C. H. Wong, H.T.C. Stoof, and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. A 85, 063613 (2012)]
  
  
• Critical spin transport in Bose gases
  [R. Kittinaradorn, R.A. Duine, and H.T.C. Stoof, New J. Phys. 14 , 055007 (2012), Focus Issue on ``Bose-Einstein Condensation Phenomena in Atomic and Solid State Physics"]
  
  
• Spin Caloritronics in Noncondensed Bose Gases
  [C. H. Wong, H.J.van Driel, R. Kittinaradorn, H.T.C. Stoof, R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 075301 (2012)]
  
  
• Polarons in Extremely Polarized Fermi Gases: The Strongly Interacting Li-6 K-40 Mixture
  [J.E. Baarsma, J. Armaitis, R.A. Duine, and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 85, 033631 (2012)]
  
  
• Anomalous Hall conductivity from the dipole mode of spin-orbit-coupled cold-atom systems
  [E. van der Bijl and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 195302 (2011)]
  See this poster made by Erik van der Bijl.
  
  
• A Quantum Theory of Cold Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices
  [Dagim Tilahun, R. A. Duine, and A. H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. A 84, 033622 (2011)]
  
  
• Spin Drag in Ultracold Fermi Mixtures with Repulsive Interactions
  [R.A. Duine, Marco Polini, Arnaud Raoux, H.T.C. Stoof, G. Vignale, New J. Phys. 13, 045010 (2011)]
  
  
• Spin drag Hall effect in a rotating Bose mixture
  [H.J. van Driel, R.A. Duine, H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 155301 (2010)]
  This paper is an editor's suggestion.
  
  
• Spin drag in an ultracold Fermi gas on the verge of a ferromagnetic instability
  [R.A. Duine, Marco Polini, H.T.C. Stoof, and G. Vignale, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220403 (2010)]
  See also this talk.
  
  
• Quantum vortex dynamics in two-dimensional neutral superfluids
  [C.-C. Joseph Wang, R. A. Duine, and A. H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. A 81, 013609 (2010)]
  
  
• Spin drag in noncondensed Bose gases
  [R. A. Duine and H. T. C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170401 (2009)]
  This paper is selected for a Viewpoint Commentary by Marco Polini and Giovanni Vignale in the online journal "Physics". It is also labelled as editor's suggestion. See also this talk. See also this press announcement on the FOM website, and this article on the "ScienceGuide" website (both in Dutch). See also this article on the "Blik Op Nieuws" website (in Dutch) .
  
  
• A strongly interacting Bose gas: Nozières and Schmitt-Rink theory and beyond
  [Arnaud Koetsier, P. Massignan, R. A. Duine and H. T. C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 79, 063609 (2009)]
  
  
• Vortex-lattice pinning in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
  [M.P. Mink, C. Morais Smith, and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. A 79, 013605 (2009)]
  See also this poster made by Martijn Mink.
  
  
• Spinning fermions
  [R.A. Duine, Physics 1, 27 (2008)]
  
  
• Achieving the Neel state in an optical lattice
  [Arnaud Koetsier, R. A. Duine, Immanuel Bloch, and H. T. C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 77, 023623 (2008)]
  See also this poster and this animation made by Arnaud Koetsier.
  
  
• Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov vortex lattice states in fermionic cold-atom systems
  [Y.-P. Shim, R.A. Duine and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. A 74, 053602 (2006)]
  
  
• Itinerant Ferromagnetism in an Ultracold Atom Fermi Gas
  [R.A. Duine and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230403 (2005)]
  This paper discusses itinerant ferromagnetism in fermionic cold-atom systems. The first experiment in this direction was performed by the group of Nobel Prize Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle, see this preprint. See also this talk.
  
  
• Pinning and collective modes of a vortex lattice in a Bose-Einstein condensate
  [J.W. Reijnders and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. A 71, 063607 (2005)]
  
  
• Quantitative Probe of Pairing Correlations in a Cold Fermionic Atom gas
  [R.A. Duine and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. A 71, 053613 (2005)]
  
  
• Pinning of vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate by an optical lattice
  [J.W. Reijnders and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 060401 (2004)]
  In this paper we propose an experiment to observe vortex pinning in a Bose-Einstein condensate. The experiment has been performed by Shih-Kuang Tung and Volker Schweikhard in the group of Nobel Prize Laureate Eric Cornell: Click here to go to the experimental preprint. See also this talk about vortex dynamics and pinning in Bose-Einstein condensates.
  
  
• Quantum Phase Transition in an Atomic Bose Gas with a Feshbach Resonance
  [M.W.J. Romans, R.A. Duine, Subir Sachdev, and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 020405 (2004)]
  See also this poster made by Mathijs Romans. See also this talk by Subir Sachdev on this topic.
  
  
• Noisy Dynamics of a Vortex in a Partially Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas
  [R.A. Duine, B.W.A. Leurs, and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 69, 053623 (2004)]
  
  
• Atom-molecule coherence in Bose gases
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rep. 396, 115-195 (2004)]
  
  
• Molecular Kondo Resonance in Atomic Fermi Gases
  [G.M. Falco, R.A. Duine, and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 140402 (2004)]
  Click here to see an illustration of the bosonic Kondo resonance. See also this talk.
  
  
• Atom-molecule coherence in Bose gases
  [R.A. Duine, Ph. D. Thesis, promotor: prof. dr. H.T.C. Stoof, Utrecht University 2003]
  If you would like a hardcopy of this thesis, contact me! See also this talk covering most of the topics in my thesis.
  
  
• Many-body Aspects of Coherent Atom-Molecule Oscillations
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 150405 (2003)]
  Klik hier om onze bijdrage aan het Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde over dit onderwerp te lezen.
  
  
• Josephson Frequency of Resonantly-Coupled Atomic and Molecular Condensates
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, New J. Phys. 5, 69 (2003)]
  
  
• Microscopic Many-Body Theory of Atomic Bose Gases near a Feshbach Resonance
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 5, S212 (2003)]
  
  
• Dynamics of a Bose-Einstein Condensate near a Feshbach Resonance
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 68, 013602 (2003)]
  
  
• Stochastic Dynamics of a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 65, 013603 (2002)]
  See also this poster and this talk.
  
  
• Explosion of a Collapsing Bose-Einstein condensate
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2204 (2001)]
  See also these snapshots and this movie of a collapsing Bose-Einstein condensate. See also this talk.

• Probing the topological exciton condensate via Coulomb drag
  [M. P. Mink, H. T. C. Stoof, R.A. Duine, Marco Polini, and G. Vignale, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 186402 (2012)]
  
  
• The Influence of Remote Bands on Exciton Condensation in Double-Layer Graphene
  [ M. P. Mink, H. T. C. Stoof, R. A. Duine, and A. H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 84, 155409 (2011)]
  
  

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