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We study by extensive Monte Carlo simulations the transport of itinerant spins travelling inside a multilayer composed of three ferromagnetic films antiferromagnetically coupled to each other in a sandwich structure. The two exterior films…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Akabli , H. T. Diep , S. Reynal

To achieve efficient anti-damping switching of nanoscale magnetic memories with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy using spin-orbit torque requires that the anti-damping spin-orbit torque have a strong out-of-plane component. The spin…

In-plane magnetization is induced by the Edelstein effect in the Rashba spin-orbit interaction system. However, out-of-plane magnetization is more useful for switching a ferromagnetic memory. We study analytically and numerically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Motohiko Ezawa

We investigate proximity-induced superconductivity in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the presence of an externally generated exchange field. A variety of superconducting order parameters is found to emerge from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-11 M. A. Rahimi , A. G. Moghaddam , C. Dykstra , M. Governale , U. Zülicke

An excitation of a large-amplitude out-of-plane magnetization oscillation in a ferromagnet by the spin Hall effect is of great interest for practical applications such as microwave generator and neuromorphic computing. However, both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-12 Tomohiro Taniguchi

Despite recent advances in orbitronics, generating out-of-plane orbital torques essential for field-free deterministic switching of perpendicular magnetization remains a key challenge. Here, we propose a strategy to produce such…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-14 Hui Wang , Xukun Feng , Jin Cao , Huiying Liu , Weibo Gao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Lay Kee Ang

The spin-orbit torque, a torque induced by a charge current flowing through the heavy-metal conducting layer with strong spin-orbit interactions, provides an efficient way to control the magnetization direction in heavy-metal/ferromagnet…

Understanding the role of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has been crucial to controlling magnetic anisotropy in magnetic multilayer films. It has been shown that electronic structure can be altered via interface SOC by varying the superlattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-04 Alexander C. Bornstein , Benjamin J. Chapman , Nirmal J. Ghimire , David G. Mandrus , David S. Parker , Minhyea Lee

We analyze magnetic phases of monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides that are two-valley materials with electron-electron interactions. The exchange inter-valley scattering makes two-valley systems less stable to the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-31 Dmitry Miserev , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We theoretically propose a novel spin-dependent electronic transport mechanism in which the spin-unpolarized electron beam is split into different directions depending on spins at an atomic domain boundary in non-magnetic material.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tetsuro Habe , Mikito Koshino

Using a tight-biding model, we elaborate that the previously discovered out-of-plane polarized helical edge spin current caused by Rashba spin-orbit coupling can be attributed to the fact that in a strip geometry, a positive momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist

We theoretically demonstrate that 100\% valley-polarized transport in monolayers of MoS$_{2}$ and other group-VI dichalcogenides can be obtained using off-resonant circularly polarized light. By tuning the intensity of the off-resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 M. Tahir , A. Manchon , U. Schwingenschlogl

The emergence of spin-polarized currents in nonrelativistic platforms continues to attract significant interest in spintronics. Here we demonstrate that a noncollinear kagome antiferromagnet can generate an alternating out-of-plane spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ousmane Ly , Satoru Hayami

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides have emerged as prominent candidates to explore the complex interplay between the spin and the valleys degrees of freedom. The strong spin-orbit interaction and broken inversion symmetry within…

An electric current in the presence of spin-orbit coupling can generate a spin accumulation that exerts torques on a nearby magnetization. We demonstrate that, even in the absence of materials with strong bulk spin-orbit coupling, a torque…

We analyze the contribution of the inhomogeneous magnetic field induced by an electrical current to the spin Hall effect in metals. The Zeeman coupling between the field and the electron spin leads to a spin dependent force, and to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 A. Hernando , F. Guinea , M. A. Garcia

Monolayer Janus transition-metal dichalcogenides possess Ising- and Rashba-type spin-orbit-couplings (SOC), leading to intriguing spin splitting effects at K and K$'$, and around $\Gamma$ points across the wide energy range. Using…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Souren Adhikary , Tomoaki Kameda , Katsunori Wakabayashi

We propose an interband tunneling picture to explain and predict the interlayer twist angle dependence of the induced spin-orbit coupling in heterostructures of graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). We obtain a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Alessandro David , Péter Rakyta , Andor Kormányos , Guido Burkard

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

Transition metal dichalcogenides provide a platform for exploring spin-valley physics, offering a promising approach to electric-field-driven spin control for low-power spintronic and quantum devices. Here, we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Min-Gue Kim , Min-Sik Kim , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ju-Jin Kim , Myung-Ho Bae