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Investigation of the spin Hall effect in gold has triggered increasing interest over the past decade, since gold combines the properties of a large bulk spin diffusion length and strong interfacial spin-orbit coupling. However,…

We study theoretically the effective spin Hall properties of a composite consisting of two materials with and without spin-orbit (SO) coupling. In particular, we assume that SO material represents a system of grains in a matrix with no SO.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Z. Yue , M. C. Prestgard , A. Tiwari , M. E. Raikh

A unified theory of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is presented for multi-band ferromagnetic metallic systems with dilute impurities. In the clean limit, the AHE is mostly due to the extrinsic skew-scattering. When the Fermi level is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shigeki Onoda , Naoyuki Sugimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

By associating a spin-orbit interaction with a non-Abelian gauge potential, we theoretically present a spin polarization in a quite general form using an effective Yang-Mills field and a usual electromagnetic field. In this gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Akihito Takeuchi , Naoto Nagaosa

In a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the external electric field may cause a spin Hall current in the direction perpendicular to the electric field. This effect was called the intrinsic spin Hall effect. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiaohua Ma , Liangbin Hu , Ruibao Tao , Shun-Qing Shen

The spin Hall effect (SHE) converts charge current to pure spin currents in orthogonal directions in materials that have significant spin-orbit coupling.The efficiency of the conversion is described by the spin Hall Angle (SHA). The SHA can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Weifeng Zhang , Wei Han , Xin Jiang , See-Hun Yang , Stuart S. P. Parkin

We propose a mechanism of intrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE). In this mechanism, local orbital angular momentum (OAM) induces electron position shift and couples with the bias electric field to generate orbital Hall effect (OHE). SHE then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Wonsig Jung , Dongwook Go , Hyun-Woo Lee , Changyoung Kim

The spin Hall effect does not generally result in a charge Hall voltage. We predict that in systems with inhomogeneous electron density in the direction perpendicular to main current flow, the spin Hall effect is instead accompanied by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-23 Yu. V. Pershin , M. Di Ventra

Oxide interfaces are a source of spin-orbit coupling which can lead to novel spin-to-charge conversion effects. In this work the contribution of the Bi$_2$O$_3$ interface to the anomalous Hall effect of Co is experimentally studied in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Edurne Sagasta , Juan Borge , Luis Esteban , Yasutomo Omori , Martin Gradhand , YoshiChika Otani , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

The quantum Hall liquid is a novel state of matter with profound emergent properties such as fractional charge and statistics. Existence of the quantum Hall effect requires breaking of the time reversal symmetry caused by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Andrei Bernevig , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The quantum spin Hall effect has been observed in topological insulators using spin-orbit coupling as the probe, but it has not yet been observed in a metal. An experiment is proposed to measure the quantum spin Hall effect of an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Aiying Zhao , Qiang Gu , Timothy J. Haugan , Thomas J. Bullard , Richard A. Klemm

Quantum spin Hall insulators have attracted significant attention in recent years. Understanding the optical properties and spin Hall effect in these materials is crucial for technological advancements. In this study, we present theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Mohammad Mortezaei Nobahari , Carmine Autieri

The spin Hall effect (SHE), which converts a charge current into a transverse spin current, has long been believed to be a phenomenon induced by the spin--orbit coupling. Here, we propose an alternative mechanism to realize the intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-22 Yang Zhang , Jakub Zelezny , Yan Sun , Jeroen van den Brink , Binghai Yan

Combining tight-binding models and first principles calculations, we investigate the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect induced by intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in buckled honeycomb lattice with sp orbitals in an external exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 Hongbin Zhang , Frank Freimuth , Gustav Bihlmayer , Marjana Ležaić , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

The spin Hall effect (SHE), in which electrical current generates transverse spin current, plays an important role in spintronics for the generation and manipulation of spin-polarized electrons. The phenomenon originates from spin-orbit…

The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon that an electric field induces a spin Hall current. In this Letter, we examine the inverse effect that, in a ferromagnetic conductor, a charge Hall current is induced by a spin motive force, or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno

An oscillographic study of the Hall voltage with an unpolarized alternating current through a platinum sample revealed choral features of the Hall effect, which clearly demonstrate the presence of the spin Hall effect in metals with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yu. N. Chiang , M. O. Dzyuba

We theoretically describe the spin excitation spectrum of a two dimensional electron gas embedded in a quantum well with localized magnetic impurities. Compared to the previous work, we introduce equations that allow to consider the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Florent Perez , Joel Cibert , Masha Vladimirova , Denis Scalbert

Conventional topological classification theory dictates that time-reversal symmetry confines the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect to a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ classification, permitting only a single pair of gapless helical edge states. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Zhiyu Chen , Fangyang Zhan , Zheng Qin , Da-Shuai Ma , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

A two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator (TI) exhibits the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, in which topologically protected spin-polarized conducting channels exist at the sample edges. Experimental signatures of the QSH effect have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Yanmeng Shi , Joshua Kahn , Ben Niu , Zaiyao Fei , Bosong Sun , Xinghan Cai , Brian A. Francisco , Di Wu , Zhi-Xun Shen , Xiaodong Xu , David H. Cobden , Yong-Tao Cui