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Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) has emerged as a promising method for achieving energy-efficient magnetisation switching in advanced spintronic devices. Over the past two decades, researchers have primarily focused on enhancing spin…

Current-induced spin torques are of great interest to manipulate the orientation of nanomagnets without applying external magnetic fields. They find direct application in non-volatile data storage and logic devices, and provide insight into…

The spin Hall effect (SHE) generates spin currents within nonmagnetic materials. Previously, studies of the SHE have been motivated primarily to understand its fundamental origin and magnitude. Here we demonstrate, using measurement and…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 Luqiao Liu , O. J. Lee , T. J. Gudmundsen , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

We use \textit{ab-initio} calculations to investigate spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in FeRh(001) deposited on W(100). Since FeRh undergoes a ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic phase transition close to room temperature, we consider both phases of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-23 Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

A fully relativistic description of the spin-orbit induced spin Hall effect is presented that is based on Kubo's linear response formalism. Using an appropriate operator for the spin current density a Kubo-St\v{r}eda-like equation for the…

The 5d transition-metal oxides have been an intriguing platform to demonstrate efficient charge to spin current conversion due to a unique electronic structure dominated by strong spin-orbit coupling. Here, we report on stacking-order…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-07 Kohei Ueda , Naoki Moriuchi , Kenta Fukushima , Takanori Kida , Masayuki Hagiwara , Jobu Matsuno

In spin torque magnetic memories, electrically actuated spin currents are used to switch a magnetic bit. Typically, these require a multilayer geometry including both a free ferromagnetic layer and a second layer providing spin injection.…

We report the thickness dependence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) and spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in Pt\Co(t)\AlOx, studied by current-induced domain wall (DW) motion and second-harmonic experiments. From the DW motion study, a…

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) refers to the excitation of magnetization dynamics via spin-orbit coupling under the application of a charged current. In this work, we introduce a simple and intuitive description of the SOT in terms of spin force.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-31 Cong Son Ho , Seng Ghee Tan , Shun-Qing Shen , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

The spin Hall effect (SHE) is normally discussed in terms of a spin current, which is ill-defined in strongly spin-orbit-coupled systems because of spin non-conservation. In this work we propose an alternative view of SHE phenomena by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Hua Chen , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

Magnetic insulators (MIs) attract tremendous interest for spintronic applications due to low Gilbert damping and absence of Ohmic loss. Magnetic order of MIs can be manipulated and even switched by spin-orbit torques (SOTs) generated…

The control of magnetization by electric current is a rapidly developing area motivated by a strong synergy between breakthrough basic research discoveries and industrial applications in the fields of magnetic recording, magnetic field…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Yucai Li , Kevin William Edmonds , Xionghua Liu , Houzhi Zheng , Kaiyou Wang

We present harmonic transverse voltage measurements of current-induced thermoelectric and spin-orbit torque (SOT) effects in ferromagnet/normal metal bilayers, in which thermal gradients produced by Joule heating and SOT coexist and give…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Can Onur Avci , Kevin Garello , Mihai Gabureac , Abhijit Ghosh , Andreas Fuhrer , Santos F. Alvarado , Pietro Gambardella

The intrinsic orbital Hall effect (OHE), the orbital counterpart of the spin Hall effect, was predicted and studied theoretically for more than one decade, yet to be observed in experiments. Here we propose a strategy to convert the orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Jiewen Xiao , Yizhou Liu , Binghai Yan

We predict that due to spin-orbit(SO) interaction there is a torque even for the parallel configuration of spin valve structure (F1/2DEG/F2). This torque arises due to spin orbit interaction. We develop a scattering theory for spin density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Pareek

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

Understanding the evolution of spin-orbit torque (SOT) with increasing heavy-metal thickness in ferromagnet/normal metal (FM/NM) bilayers is critical for the development of magnetic memory based on SOT. However, several experiments have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Andrew J. Berger , Eric R. J. Edwards , Hans T. Nembach , Olof Karis , Mathias Weiler , T. J. Silva

Spin-to-orbit conversion of light is a dynamical optical phenomenon in non-paraxial fields leading to various manifestations of the spin and orbital Hall effect. However, effects of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) have not been explored…

The anomalous Hall effect is mainly used to probe the magnetization orientation in ferromagnetic materials. A less explored aspect is the torque acting back on magnetization, an effect that can be important at high currents. The spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Ioan Tudosa

We theoretically examine the spin-transfer torque in the presence of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) at impurities in a ferromagnetic metal on the basis of linear response theory. We obtained, in addition to the usual spin-transfer torque, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno