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Versatile room-temperature control of spin currents without a net charge flow paves the way for new methods to transfer and process information.

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Figure 1: Generating spin imbalance.
Figure 2: Detection of spin currents generated by magnons.
Figure 3: Information transfer by spin pumping.

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  1. Igor Žutić is in the Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA,

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  2. Hanan Dery is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University at Rochester, Rochester, New York 14267, USA,

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Žutić, I., Dery, H. Taming spin currents. Nature Mater 10, 647–648 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3097

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