======Antonio Costa======

====Research Interests=====

  * Spin dynamics of nanoscopic magnets in contact with metallic substrates.
  * The role of spin-orbit coupling in determining the spin excitation spectrum of low-dimensional systems.
  * Microscopic formulation of the spin Hall and inverse spin Hall effects.
  * Spin-dependent transport.


====Selected publications====
  - [[http://stacks.iop.org/1367-2630/13/033028|Spin waves in zigzag graphene nanoribbons and the stability of edge ferromagnetism]], with F. J. Culchac and A. Latgé, New Journal of Physics **13**, 033028 (2011)
  - [[http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v106/i3/e037205|Itinerant Nature of Atom-Magnetization Excitation by Tunneling Electrons]], with A. A. Khajetoorians, S. Lounis, B. Chilian, Lihui Zhou, D. L. Mills, J. Wiebe and R. Wiesendanger, Phys. Rev. Lett. **106**, 037205 (2011).
  - [[http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.014428|Spin Orbit Coupling and Spin Waves in Ultrathin Ferromagnets: The Spin Wave Rashba Effect]], with R. B. Muniz, S. Lounis, A. B. Klautau and D. L. Mills, Phys. Rev. B **82**, 014428 (2010).
  - [[http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/10/6/063008/|Dynamic interaction between localized magnetic moments in carbon nanotubes]], New Journal of Physics **10**, 063008 (2008), with R. B. Muniz and M. S. Ferreira.
  - [[http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v73/e054426|Ferromagnetic resonance linewidths in ultrathin structures: A theoretical study of spin pumping]], Phys. Rev. B **73**, 054426 (2006); with R.B. Muniz and D.L. Mills.
  - [[http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v94/e137203|Ground state of magnetic dimers on metal surfaces]], Phys. Rev. Lett. **94**, 137203 (2005); with R. B. Muniz and D. L. Mills.
  - [[http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v70/e054406|Theory of large wave-vector spin waves in ferromagnetic films: sensitivity to electronic structure]], Phys. Rev. B **70**, 54406 (2004); with R. B. Muniz and D. L. Mills.
  - [[http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v68/e224435|Theory of spin excitations in Fe(110) multilayers]], Phys. Rev. B **68**, 224435 (2003); with R. B. Muniz and D. L. Mills.

====Personal home-page====
For more information, including a complete list of publications, please visit [[http://profs.if.uff.br/antc/new_wiki|this link]].