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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

We study a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. It is shown analytically that the spin-orbit interaction acts as a transversal effective electric field, whose orientation depends on the sign of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez

The generation, manipulation and detection of spin-polarized electrons in nanostructures define the main challenges of spin-based electronics[1]. Amongst the different approaches for spin generation and manipulation, spin-orbit coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergio O. Valenzuela , M. Tinkham

We measure electrically detected ferromagnetic resonance in microdevices patterned from ultra-thin Co/Pt bilayers. Spin pumping and rectification voltages are observed and distinguished via their angular dependence. The spin-pumping voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-22 T. D. Skinner , H. Kurebayashi , D. Fang , D. Heiss , A. C. Irvine , A. T. Hindmarch , M. Wang , A. W. Rushforth , A. J. Ferguson

A complete set of the generalized drift-diffusion equations for a coupled charge and spin dynamics in ferromagnets in the presence of extrinsic spin-orbit coupling is derived from the quantum kinetic approach, covering major transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 C. O. Pauyac , M. Chshiev , A. Manchon , S. A. Nikolaev

Spin torque oscillators placed onto a nonmagnetic heavy metal show synchronized auto-oscillations due to the coupling originating from spin Hall magnetoresistance effect. Here, we study a system having two spin torque oscillators under the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-26 Tomohiro Taniguchi

We predict the coexistence of tunneling spin and valley Hall effects when electrons in graphene coherently transmit through a barrier with the broken inversion symmetry and proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling. Due to the rotation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 W. Zeng

Using mapping between topological defects in an easy-plane magnet and electrical charges, we study interplay between vorticity and spin currents. We demonstrate that the flow of vorticity is accompanied by the transverse spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Edward Schwartz , Hamed Vakili , Moaz Ali , Alexey A. Kovalev

A useful experimental signature of the ordinary spin Hall effect is the spin accumulation it produces at the sample edges. The superspin Hall current [Phys. Rev. B 96, 094512 (2017)] is a transverse equilibrium spin current which is induced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-15 Vetle Risinggård , Jacob Linder

The generation of large spin currents, and the associated spin torques, which are at the heart of modern spintronics, have long been achieved by charge-to-spin conversion mechanisms, i.e. the spin Hall effect and/or the Rashba effect,…

When charge current passes through a normal metal that exhibits spin Hall effect, spin accumulates at the edge of the sample in the transverse direction. We predict that this spin accumulation, or spin voltage, enables quantum tunneling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist , Dirk Manske

The layer Hall effect is an intriguing phenomenon observed in magnetic topological layered materials, where the Hall response arises from the opposite deflection of electrons on top and bottom layers. To realize layer Hall effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Yulei Han , Yunpeng Guo , Zeyu Li , Zhenhua Qiao

We investigate electrically-induced spin currents generated by the spin Hall effect in GaAs structures that distinguish edge effects from spin transport. Using Kerr rotation microscopy to image the spin polarization, we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , W. H. Lau , R. C. Myers , V. R. Horowitz , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

The interplay between magnetism and strong topological insulator gives rise to distinct new topological phases and various intriguing phenomena, attracting significant attention in recent years. However, magnetic effects in weak topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Rui Chen , Xiao-Xia Yi , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

We investigate the effect of orbital current arising from orbital Hall effect in thin films of Nb and Ti in ohmic contact with ferromagnetic Ni in the second harmonic longitudinal and transverse voltages in response to an a.c. current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Dhananjaya Mahapatra , Abu Bakkar Miah , HareKrishna Bhunia , Soumik Aon , Partha Mitra

We theoretically study the current-driven domain wall motion in the presence of both the spin Hall effect and an extrinsic pinning potential. The spin Hall effect mainly affects the damping ratio of the domain wall precession in the pinning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Jisu Ryu , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee

Non-local measurements are performed on a multi terminal device to $in-situ$ determine the spin diffusion length and in combination with resistivity measurements also the spin relaxation time in Al films. By varying the thickness of Al we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 N. Poli , M. Urech , V. Korenivski , D. B. Haviland

The magnetic spin Hall effect (MSHE) is an anomalous charge-to-spin conversion phenomenon which occurs in ferromagnetic materials. In contrast to the conventional spin Hall effect (SHE), being a time-reversal even effect, the magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-27 Leandro Salemi , Peter M. Oppeneer

A biref review is presented on resonant spin Hall effect, where a tiny external electric field induces a saturated spin Hall current in a 2-dimensional electron or hole gas in a perpendicular magnetic field. The phenomenon is attributted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Fu-Chun Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

We theoretically investigate the mechanism to generate large intrinsic spin Hall effect in iridates or more broadly in 5d transition metal oxides with strong spin-orbit coupling. We demonstrate such a possibility by taking the example of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-25 Adarsh S. Patri , Kyusung Hwang , Hyun-Woo Lee , Yong Baek Kim