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We show that inversion symmetry breaking together with spin-orbit coupling leads to coupled spin and valley physics in monolayers of MoS2 and other group-VI dichalcogenides, making possible controls of spin and valley in these 2D materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-09 Di Xiao , Gui-Bin Liu , Wanxiang Feng , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

We have studied the spin dependent force and the associated momentum space Berry curvature in an accelerating system. The results are derived by taking into consideration the non relativistic limit of a generally covariant Dirac equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-24 Debashree Chowdhury , B. Basu

Valley is a useful degree of freedom for non-dissipative electronics since valley current that can flow even in an insulating material does not accompany electronic current. We use dual-gated bilayer graphene in the Hall bar geometry to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Yuya Shimazaki , Michihisa Yamamoto , Ivan V. Borzenets , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Seigo Tarucha

We derive an intrinsic contribution to the non-adiabatic spin torque for non-uniform magnetic textures. It differs from previously considered contributions in several ways and can be the dominant contribution in some models. It does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee , M. D. Stiles

One of the main obstacles that prevents practical applications of antiferromagnets is the difficulty of manipulating the magnetic order parameter. Recently, following the theoretical prediction [J. \v{Z}elezn\'y et al., PRL 113, 157201…

Current-induced torques in ultrathin Co/Pt bilayers were investigated using an electrically driven FMR technique. The angle dependence of the resonances, detected by a rectification effect as a voltage, were analysed to determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 T. D. Skinner , M. Wang , A. T. Hindmarch , A. W. Rushforth , A. C. Irvine , D. Heiss , H. Kurebayashi , A. J. Ferguson

Electron motion in crystals is governed by the coupling between crystal momentum and internal degrees of freedom such as spin implicit in the band structure. The description of this coupling in terms of a momentum-dependent effective field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 F. Couëdo , H. Irie , T. Akiho , K. Suzuki , K. Onomitsu , K. Muraki

Valley, as a new degree of freedom, raises the valleytronics in fundamental and applied science. The elastic analogs of valley states have been proposed by mimicking the symmetrical structure of either two-dimensional materials or photonic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Shuaifeng Li , Ingi Kim , Satoshi Iwamoto , Jianfeng Zang , Jinkyu Yang

We provide a general formulation of the spin-orbit coupling on a 2D curved surface. Considering the wide applicability of spin-orbit effect in spinor-based condensed matter physics, a general spin-orbit formulation could aid the study of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Seng Ghee Tan , Che Chun Huang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Zhuobin Siu

Spin and valley dependent anomalous Nernst effect are analyzed for monolayer MoS2 and other group-VI dichalcogenides. We find that pure spin and valley currents can be generated perpendicular to the applied thermal gradient in the plane of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 X. -Q. Yu , Z. -G. Zhu , G. Su , A. -P. Jauho

As recent additions to the catalog of 2D crystals, silicene and other silicene-class crystals have numerous unique properties currently being investigated and considered for use in novel device applications. In this paper, we investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Maxwell Fishman , Debdeep Jena

The spin-orbit torque (SOT) in a compensated ferrimagnetic Weyl semimetal, ${\rm Ti}_{2}{\rm MnAl}$, is studied by the linear response theory. We elucidate that the SOT driven by all the occupied electronic states is present in magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Tomonari Meguro , Akihiro Ozawa , Koji Kobayashi , Yasufumi Araki , Kentaro Nomura

We present unconventional nodal crossings in a two-dimensional (2D) collinear altermagnet, which are enforced by crystal symmetries to lock spin polarization and valley degrees of freedom. The altermagnetism generate nonrelativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Zhang Meng-Han , Guo Xuan , Dao-Xin Yao

The toolbox quantities used for manipulating the flow of light include typically amplitude, phase, and polarization. Pseudospins, such as those arising from valley degrees of freedom in photonic structures, have recently emerged as an…

In this paper, we investigate theoretically the spin-orbit torque as well as the Gilbert damping for a two band model of a 2D helical surface state with a Ferromagnetic (FM) exchange coupling. We decompose the density matrix into the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Farzad Mahfouzi , Nicholas Kioussis

Berry phase plays an important role in determining many physical properties of quantum systems. However, a Berry phase altering energy spectrum of a quantum system is comparatively rare. Here, we report an unusual tunable valley polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Ya-Ning Ren , Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

We discuss the ground state of a pyrochlore lattice of threefold-orbitally-degenerate $S=1/2$ magnetic ions. We derive an effective spin-orbital Hamiltonian and show that the orbital degrees of freedom can modulate the spin exchange,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Di Matteo , G. Jackeli , C. Lacroix , N. B. Perkins

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising materials for efficient generation of current-induced spin-orbit torques on an adjacent ferromagnetic layer. Numerous effects, both interfacial and bulk, have been put forward to explain…

We investigate spin transport in two dimensional ferromagnetic (FTI) and antiferromagnetic (AFTI) topological insulators. In presence of an in plane magnetization AFTI supports zero energy modes, which enables topologically protected edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Sumit Ghosh , Aurelien Manchon

We study the valley-dependent magnetic and transport properties of massive Dirac fermions in multivalley systems such as the transition metal dichalcogenides. The asymmetry of the zeroth Landau level between valleys and the enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Tianyi Cai , Shengyuan A. Yang , Xiao Li , Fan Zhang , Junren Shi , Wang Yao , Qian Niu