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Topological insulators (TIs) are a promising class of materials for manipulating the magnetization of an adjacent ferromagnet (FM) through the spin-orbit torque (SOT) mechanism. However, current studies combining TIs with conventional FMs…

Spin-orbit torque in heavy metal/ferromagnet heterostructures with broken spatial inversion symmetry provides an efficient mechanism for manipulating magnetization using a charge current. Here, we report the presence of a spin torque in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Ziyan Luo , Qi Zhang , Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Xinhai Zhang , Yihong Wu

The topological properties of the bulk band structure of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) manifest themselves in the form of metallic surface states. In this paper, we propose a probe which directly couples to an exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sthitadhi Roy , Kush Saha , Sourin Das

The Dirac surface states of topological insulators offer a unique possibility for creating spin polarized charge currents due to the spin-momentum locking. Here we demonstrate that the control over the bulk and surface contribution is…

Controlling magnetic order in magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) is a key to developing spintronic applications with MTIs, and is commonly achieved by changing the magnetic doping concentration, which inevitably affects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Xiong Yao , Hee Taek Yi , Deepti Jain , Myung-Geun Han , Seongshik Oh

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

We theoretically study the spin and charge generation along with the electron transport on a disordered surface of a doped three-dimensional topological insulator/magnetic insulator junction by using Green's function techniques. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Katsuhisa Taguchi , Kunitaka Shintani , Yukio Tanaka

We study the behavior of non-equilibrium spin density and spin-orbit torque in a topological insulator - antiferromagnet heterostructure. Unlike ferromagnetic heterostructures where Dirac cone is gapped due to time-reversal symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Sumit Ghosh , Aurelien Manchon

We demonstrate that the charge-spin conversion efficiency of topological insulators (TI) can be experimentally determined by injecting spin-polarized tunneling electrons into a TI. Through a comparative study between bismuth selenide and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Luqiao Liu , A. Richardella , Ion Garate , Yu Zhu , N. Samarth , Ching-Tzu Chen

Magnetic torques generated through spin-orbit coupling promise energy-efficient spintronic devices. It is important for applications to control these torques so that they switch films with perpendicular magnetizations without an external…

The highly efficient torques generated by 3D topological insulators make them a favourable platform for faster and more efficient magnetic memory devices. Recently, research into harnessing orbital angular momentum in orbital torques has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 James H. Cullen , Hong Liu , Dimitrie Culcer

Topological insulators have attracted great interest as generators of spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in spintronic devices. Bi\textsubscript{1-x}Sb\textsubscript{x} is a prominent topological insulator that has a high charge-to-spin conversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-06 Federico Binda , Stefano Fedel , Santos Francisco Alvarado , Paul Noël , Pietro Gambardella

The topological force and torque are investigated in the systems with spin-orbit coupling. Our results show that the topological force and torque appears as a pure relativistic quantum effect in an electromagnetic field. The origin of both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. J. Huang , R. Qi , Y. D. Li , W. M. Liu

We investigate the band dispersion and the spin texture of topologically protected surface states in the bulk topological insulators Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 by first-principles methods. Strong spin-orbit entanglement in these materials reduces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Oleg V. Yazyev , Joel E. Moore , Steven G. Louie

We investigate the current-induced spin-orbit torque in thin topological insulator (TI) films in the presence of hybridization between the top and bottom surface states. We formulate the relation between spin torque and TI thickness, from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Cong Son Ho , Yi Wang , Zhuo Bin Siu , Hyunsoo Yang , Seng Ghee Tan , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

We present a comprehensive theoretical study of the topological surface states (TSS) of Bi$_2$Se$_3$, a 3D topological insulator, epitaxially grown on twisted bilayer graphene (tBG). The moir\'e potential induced by tBG folds the TSS Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Yoonkang Kim

Using a semiclassical approach that simultaneously incorporates the spin Hall effect (SHE), spin diffusion, quantum well states, and interface spin-orbit coupling (SOC), we address the interplay of these mechanisms as the origin of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Kohei Sakanashi , Manfred Sigrist , Wei Chen

The possibility of realizing topological insulators by spontaneous formation of electronic superstructure is theoretically investigated in a minimal two-orbital model including both the spin-orbit coupling and electron correlations on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-21 Yusuke Sugita , Yukitoshi Motome

The spin-orbit torques (SOTs) generated from topological insulators (TIs) have gained increasing attention in recent years. These TIs, which are typically formed by epitaxially grown chalcogenides, possess extremely high SOT efficiencies…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-18 Tian-Yue Chen , Cheng-Wei Peng , Tsung-Yu Tsai , Wei-Bang Liao , Chun-Te Wu , Hung-Wei Yen , Chi-Feng Pai

Topological insulators provide a new platform for spintronics due to the spin texture of the surface states that are topologically robust against elastic backscattering. Here, we report on an investigation of the measured voltage obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 E. K. de Vries , A. M. Kamerbeek , N. Koirala , M. Brahlek , M. Salehi , S. Oh , B. J. van Wees , T. Banerjee