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We report that atomic-layer alloying (intermixing) at a Pt/Co interface can increase, by approximately 30%, rather than degrade the interfacial spin transparency, and thereby strengthen the efficiency of the dampinglike spin-orbit torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-15 Lijun Zhu , Daniel C. Ralph , Robert A. Buhrman

Recent experiments by S. Krishnia et al., Nano Lett. 23, 6785 (2023) reported an unprecedentedly large enhancement of torques upon inserting thin Al layer in Co/Pt heterostructure that suggested the presence of a Rashba-like interaction at…

We present a microscopic theory that shows the importance of spin-orbit coupling in perovskite compounds with heavy ions. In BiFeO3 (BFO) the spin-orbit coupling at the bismuth ion sites results in a special kind of magnetic anisotropy that…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-02 Rogerio de Sousa , Marc Allen , Maximilien Cazayous

Whether orbital polarization propagates has become the most essential question of the blooming orbitronics that aims to generate non-local orbital torque and orbital pumping. Recent theories have suggested a strong orbital Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Taiyang Zhang , Lujun Zhu , Zhihao Yan , Lijun Zhu

In a multilayer comprising ferromagnet and heavy metal, in-plane carrier spin is induced by applied electric current owing to Rashba spin-orbit coupling, while the out-of-plane component is absent. We propose the out-of-plane carrier spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-27 Xiao Li , Hua Chen , Qian Niu

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) enables efficient current-driven control of magnetization, offering a promising pathway toward low-power spintronic devices. However, the origin and propagation of both damping-like (DL) and field-like (FL) SOTs in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Yuming Bai , Rulin Tian , Yue Zhang , Tao Wang

We present measurements of current-induced spin-orbit torques generated by NbSe$_2$, a fully-metallic transition-metal dichalcogenide material, made using the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) technique with NbSe$_{2}$/Permalloy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Marcos H. D. Guimaraes , Gregory M. Stiehl , David MacNeill , Neal D. Reynolds , Daniel C. Ralph

We measure spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in a unique model system of all-epitaxial ferrite/Pt bilayers to gain insights into charge-spin interconversion in Pt. With negligible electronic conduction in the insulating ferrite, the crystalline Pt…

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

An unexpected finding two decades ago demonstrated that Shockley electron states in noble metal surfaces are spin-polarized, forming a circulating spin texture in reciprocal space. The fundamental role played by the spin degree of freedom…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-24 Idoia G. Gurtubay , Aitzol Iturbe-Beristain , Asier Eiguren

We investigate spin- and orbital-to-charge conversion phenomena in nonmagnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry, treating the contributions from the Hall effect and the Rashba-Edelstein effect on an equal footing. We develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Diego Garcia Ovalle , Aurelien Manchon

We calculate the current-voltage characteristic of a one-dimensional band insulator with magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit coupling which is connected to nonmagnetic leads. Without spin-orbit coupling we find a complete spin-filtering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-02 Thibaut Jonckheere , George Japaridze , Thierry Martin , Roland Hayn

Non-magnetic materials without inversion symmetry typically exhibit strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), enabling the well-known Rashba Edelstein effect where an external electrical current induces transverse spin polarisation. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Akash Dey , Ashis K. Nandy , Kush Saha

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling arising from structure inversion asymmetry couples spin and momentum degrees of freedom providing a suitable (and very intensively investigated) environment for spintronic effects and devices. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Goetz Seibold , Sergio Caprara , Marco Grilli , Roberto Raimondi

We study the electron and spin transport in a van der Waals system formed by one layer with strong spin-orbit coupling and a second layer without spin-orbit coupling, in the regime when the interlayer tunneling is random. We find that in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 M. Rodriguez-Vega , G. Schwiete , Enrico Rossi

Controlling magnetism by electric fields offers a highly attractive perspective for designing future generations of energy-efficient information technologies. Here, we demonstrate that the magnitude of current-induced spin-orbit torques in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Mariia Filianina , Jan-Philipp Hanke , Kyujoon Lee , Dong-Soo Han , Samridh Jaiswal , Gerhard Jakob , Yuriy Mokrousov , Mathias Kläui

We study electron transport in a double quantum dot in the Pauli spin blockade regime, in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling. The effect of spin-orbit coupling is incorporated into a modified interdot tunnel coupling. We elucidate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Danon , Yu. V. Nazarov

The interplay between spin and heat currents at magnetic insulator|nonmagnetic metal interfaces has been a subject of much scrutiny because of both fundamental physics and the promise for technological applications. While ferrimagnetic and,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 Benedetta Flebus , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gregory A. Fiete

We predict a magnetoresistance induced by the interfacial Rashba spin-orbit coupling in normal metal|ferromagnetic insulator bilayer. It depends on the angle between current and magnetization directions identically to the "spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Vahram L. Grigoryan , Wei Guo , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Jiang Xiao

Here, we study diffusive spin transport in two dimensions and demonstrate that an intrinsic analog to a previously predicted extrinsic spin swapping effect, where the spin polarization and the direction of flow are interchanged due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Severin Sadjina , Arne Brataas , A. G. Mal'shukov