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Spin polarized currents are employed to efficiently manipulate the magnetization of ferromagnetic ultrathin films by exerting a torque on it. If the spin currents are generated by means of the spin-orbit interaction between a ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 R. Guerrero , A. Anadon , A. Gudin , J. M. Diez , P. Olleros-Rodriguez , M. Muñoz , R. Miranda , J. Camarero , P. Perna

We show theoretically that both intrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE) and orbital Hall effect (OHE) can arise in centrosymmetric systems through momentum-space orbital texture, which is ubiquitous even in centrosymmetric systems unlike spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Dongwook Go , Daegeun Jo , Changyoung Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee

While tremendous work has gone into spin-orbit torque and spin current generation, charge-to-spin conversion efficiency remains weak in silicon to date, generally stemming from the low spin-orbit coupling (low atomic number, Z) and lack of…

Extensive efforts have been devoted to the study of spin-orbit torque in ferromagnetic metal/heavy metal bilayers and exploitation of it for magnetization switching using an in-plane current. As the spin-orbit torque is inversely…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Kui Yao , Baoxi Xu , Yihong Wu

Spin Hall effect in a nonlocal spin-injection device is theoretically studied. Using a nonlocal spin-injection technique, a pure spin current is created in a nonmagnetic metal (N). The spin current flowing in N is deflected by spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

Two classes of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) mechanisms have been considered as candidate sources for the spin orbit torque (SOT): the spin Hall Effect (SHE) in heavy metals with strong SOC and the Rashba effect arising from broken inversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-24 Zelalem Abebe Bekele , Kangkang Meng , Yong Wu , Jun Miao , Xiaoguang Xu , Yong Jiang

Robust spin Hall effects (SHE) have recently been observed in non-magnetic heavy metal systems with strong spin-orbit interactions. These SHE are either attributed to an intrinsic band-structure effect or to extrinsic spin-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-05 Yongxi Ou , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

We investigate the spin Hall effect (SHE) in a van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnet Fe$_{5}$GeTe$_{2}$ (FGT) with a Curie temperature $T_{\rm C}$ of 310 K utilizing the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance method. In synchronization with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Tomoharu Ohta , Yuto Samukawa , Nan Jiang , Yasuhiro Niimi , Kohei Yamagami , Yoshinori Okada , Yoshichika Otani , Kouta Kondou

The spin Hall angle (SHA) is a measure of the efficiency with which a transverse spin current is generated from a charge current by the spin-orbit coupling and disorder in the spin Hall effect (SHE). In a study of the SHE for a Pt$|$Py…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-12 Lei Wang , R. J. H. Wesselink , Yi Liu , Zhe Yuan , Ke Xia , Paul J. Kelly

We study deterministic magnetic reversal of a perpendicularly magnetized Co layer in a Co/MgO/Ta nano-square driven by spin Hall torque from an in-plane current flowing in an underlying Pt layer. The rate-limiting step of the switching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 O. J. Lee , L. Q. Liu , C. F. Pai , H. W. Tseng , Y. Li , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

The celebrated family of the Hall effect plays a fundamental role in modern physics. Starting from the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and the quantum AHE (QAHE) with broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) to their spinful generalizations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Ya-Jie Wu , Tong Li , Junpeng Hou

This study reports the magnetization switching induced by spin-orbit torque (SOT) from the spin current generated in Co2MnGa magnetic Weyl semimetal (WSM) thin films. We deposited epitaxial Co2MnGa thin films with highly B2-ordered…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-09 Ke Tang , Zhenchao Wen , Yong-Chang Lau , Hiroaki Sukegawa , Takeshi Seki , Seiji Mitani

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is a topology-related transport phenomenon being of potential interest in spintronics, because this effect enables the efficient probe of magnetic orders (i.e., data readout in memory devices). It is well…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-19 Longju Yu , Hong Jian Zhao , Yurong Yang , Laurent Bellaiche , Yanming Ma

Non-equilibrium spin transport in a magnetic tunnel junction comprising a single magnetic layer in the presence of interfacial spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied theoretically. The interfacial SOI generates a spin torque of the form…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Manchon

Efficient generation of spin currents from charge currents is of high importance for memory and logic applications of spintronics. In particular, generation of spin currents from charge currents in high spin-orbit coupling metals has the…

Spin current--a flow of electron spins without a charge current--is an ideal information carrier free from Joule heating for electronic devices. The celebrated spin Hall effect, which arises from the relativistic spin-orbit coupling,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 Makoto Naka , Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose , Yuki Yanagi , Yukitoshi Motome , Hitoshi Seo

The electrical manipulation of magnetization by current-induced spin torques has given access to realize a plethora of ultralow power and fast spintronic devices such as non-volatile magnetic memories, spin-torque nano-oscillators, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-21 Yuya Tazaki , Yuito Kageyama , Hiroki Hayashi , Takashi Harumoto , Tenghua Gao , Ji Shi , Kazuya Ando

We report that synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) can be efficiently switched by spin-orbit torques (SOTs) and the switching scheme does not obey the usual SOT switching rule. We show that both the positive and negative spin Hall angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Chong Bi , Hamid Almasi , Kyle Price , Ty Newhouse-Illige , Meng Xu , Shane R. Allen , Xin Fan , Weigang Wang

We propose a method for inducing magnetization reversal using an AC spin current polarized perpendicular to the equilibrium magnetization of the free magnetic layer. We show that the critical AC spin current is significantly smaller than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Tom Dunn , Alex Kamenev

We have demonstrated the electrical generation and detection of spin polarization by the spin Hall effect (SHE) in platinum. The experiment was performed in a non-local geometry without the use of ferromagnetic materials or magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-11 Chee Weng Koong , Berthold-Georg Englert , Christian Miniatura , N. Chandrasekhar