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We consider the full driven quantum dynamics of a qubit realized as spin of electron in a one-dimensional double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling. The driving perturbation is taken in the form of a single half-period pulse of electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 D. V. Khomitsky , E. Ya. Sherman

We have proposed a method to synchronize multiple spin-transfer torque oscillators based on spin pumping, inverse spin Hall, and spin Hall effects. The proposed oscillator system consists of a series of nano-magnets in junction with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Mehrdad Elyasi , Charanjit S. Bhatia , Hyunsoo Yang

Spin pumping consists in the injection of spin currents into a non-magnetic material due to the precession of an adjacent ferromagnet. In addition to the pumping of spin the precession always leads to pumping of heat, but in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 V. Fernández Becerra , Mircea Trif , Timo Hyart

We consider multi-terminal transport through a flake of rectangular shape of a two-dimensional topological insulator in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. This system has been shown to be a second-order topological insulator, thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Joseph Poata , Fabio Taddei , Michele Governale

Since the discovery of the spin orbit torque (SOT) induced by spin Hall effect in heavy metals, much effort has been devoted to understanding the mechanism of the charge-to-spin conversion as well as to developing new schemes for high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Shengjie Shi , R. A. Buhrman

We report the observation of efficient charge-to-spin conversion in the three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) Bi2Se3 and Ag bilayer by the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance technique. The spin orbit torque ratio in the…

The emergence of spin-orbit torques as a promising approach to energy-efficient magnetic switching has generated large interest in material systems with easily and fully tunable spin-orbit torques. Here, current-induced spin-orbit torques…

Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin under applied current, and control magnetization dynamics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 A. Manchon , J. Zelezný , I. M. Miron , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Thiaville , K. Garello , P. Gambardella

Using the tight-binding (TB) approximation with inclusion of the spin-orbit interaction, we predict a topological phase transition in the electronic band structure of phosphorene in the presence of axial strains. We derive a low-energy TB…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-19 E. Taghizadeh Sisakht , F. Fazileh , M. H. Zare , M. Zarenia , F. M. Peeters

The interplay between topology and magnetism often triggers the exotic quantum phases. Here, we report an accessible scheme to engineer the robust $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ topology by intrinsic magnetism, originating from the zigzag segment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Wei-Jian Li , Da-Fei Sun , Sheng Ju , Ai-Lei He , Yuan Zhou

Efficient spin/charge interconversion is desired to develop innovative spin-based devices. So far, the interconversion has been performed by using heavy atomic elements, strong spin-orbit interaction of which realizes the interconversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Junyeon Kim , Dongwook Go , Hanshen Tsai , Daegeun Jo , Kouta Kondou , Hyun-Woo Lee , YoshiChika Otani

We demonstrate that spin-orbit coupled electrons in a magnetically doped system exert a spin torque on the local magnetization, without a flowing current, when the chemical potential is modulated in a magnetic field. The spin torque is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-17 Kentaro Nomura , Daichi Kurebayashi

The generation of spin-orbital currents is crucial for advancing energy-efficient spintronic devices. Here, the intricate process involved in the generation and conversion of spin and orbital to charge currents in Zr(t=2, 3, 4.5, 6,…

The electric field induced quantum phase transition from topological to conventional insulator has been proposed as the basis of a topological field effect transistor [1-4]. In this scheme an electric field can switch 'on' the ballistic…

This work presents theoretical demonstration of a carrier trap unit formed by dual topological insulator constrictions (TIC) on the HgTe/CdTe quantum well (QW) with inverted band structures. The sample of HgTe/CdTe QW is patterned into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 L. Z. Lin , Zhenhua Wu

We study spin-orbit coupling in metallic carbon nanotubes (CNTs) within the many-body Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) framework. For a well defined sub-class of metallic CNTs, that contains both achiral zig-zag as well as a sub-set of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-15 Piotr Chudzinski

Topological magnetic charge Q is a fundamental parameter that describes the magnetic domains and determines their intriguing electromagnetic properties. The ability to switch Q in a controlled way by electrical methods allows for flexible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Wensen Wei , Jin Tang , Yaodong Wu , Yihao Wang , Jialiang Jiang , Junbo Li , Y. Soh , Yimin Xiong , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

We investigate spin-orbit torques on magnetization in an insulating ferromagnetic (FM) layer that is brought into a close proximity to a topological insulator (TI). In addition to the well-known field-like spin-orbit torque, we identify an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 R. J. Sokolewicz , I. A. Ado , M. I. Katsnelson , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. Titov

The process of spin-charge interconversion is critical in modern spintronics. Nonetheless, experiments conducted on a wide variety of magnetic heterostructures consistently report that charge-to-spin and spin-to-charge conversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-27 Shuyuan Shi , Enlong Liu , Fanrui Hu , Guoyi Shi , Aurelien Manchon , Hyunsoo Yang

When adiabatically varied in time, certain one-dimensional band insulators allow for the quantized noiseless pumping of spin even in the presence of strong spin orbit scattering. These spin pumps are closely related to the quantum spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Dganit Meidan , Tobias Micklitz , Piet W. Brouwer