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Electrical control of magnetism is a long-standing goal in physics and technology, recently developed electrolyte gating techniques providing a promising route to realization. Validating a recent theoretical prediction, here we demonstrate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-05 Jeff Walter , T. Charlton , H. Ambaye , M. R. Fitzsimmons , Peter P. Orth , R. M. Fernandes , Chris Leighton

Spin transfer torques allow for electrical manipulation of magnetization at room temperature, which is utilized to build future electronic devices such as spin transfer torque memories. Recent experiments have discovered that the…

We consider the spin-orbit-induced spin Hall effect and spin swapping in diffusive superconductors. By employing the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's function technique in the quasiclassical approximation, we derive coupled transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Camilla Espedal , Peter Lange , Severin Sadjina , A. G. Mal'shukov , Arne Brataas

The recent realization of epitaxial SrCoO$_3$ thin films has triggered a renewed interest in their electronic, magnetic, and ionic properties. Here we uncover several unusual magneto-transport properties of this compound, suggesting that it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Ding Zhang , Hiroaki Ishizuka , Nianpeng Lu , Yujia Wang , Naoto Nagaosa , Pu Yu , Qi-Kun Xue

The nature of a metal-insulator transition tuned by external gates in quantum Hall (QH) systems with point constrictions, as reported in recent experiments of Roddaro et al [1], is examined. We attribute this phenomenon to a splitting of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Emiliano Papa , Tilo Stroh

We theoretically study the direct and inverse spin Hall effects in a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junction induced by a spin-orbit interaction that is invariant under spatial inversion. We show that a supercurrent induces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Gen Tatara , Yositake Takane , Aurelien Manchon

Electrostatic doping in materials can lead to various exciting electronic properties, such as metal-insulator transition and superconductivity, by altering the Fermi level position or introducing exotic phases. Cd3As2, a three-dimensional…

The correlated electron system SmNiO3 exhibits a metal-insulator phase transition at 130 {\deg}C. Using an ionic liquid as an electric double layer (EDL) gate on three-terminal ultrathin SmNiO3 devices, we investigate gate control of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-10 Sieu D. Ha , Ulrich Vetter , Jian Shi , Shriram Ramanathan

The spin Hall effect in a heavy metal thin film allows to probe the magnetic properties of an adjacent magnetic insulator via magnetotransport measurements. Here, we investigate the magnetoresistive response of yttrium iron garnet/platinum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Richard Schlitz , Sergey Granovsky , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

We report a study of the spin-to-charge current conversion in compressively strained Ge1-xSnx alloy epilayers as a function of the Sn concentration by means of the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE). The spin current is generated by…

In the recent years it has been possible to achieve diode-like, non-reciprocal current-voltage response in Josephson junctions, despite the intrinsic symmetry of the Josephson effect itself. This is typically achieved by incorporating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-19 Debashree Nayak , Dimple Rani , Prasanjit Samal , Kartik Senapati

Nonreciprocal dissipationless transport has long been sought for applications in superconducting technologies. Recently, it has been implemented by the so called superconducting diode effect. Such effect arises from an imbalance in critical…

Manipulating quantum state via electrostatic gating has been intriguing for many model systems in nanoelectronics. When it comes to the question of controlling the electron spins, more specifically, the magnetism of a system, tuning with…

An intriguing property of three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) is the existence of surface states with spin-momentum locking, which offers a new frontier of exploration in spintronics. Here, we report the observation of a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Pan He , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Dapeng Zhu , Shuyuan Shi , Olle G. Heinonen , Giovanni Vignale , Hyunsoo Yang

Hirsch (1999) proposed a mechanism and geometry for the observation of the spin-Hall effect. In this work, we present a novel realization of the Hirsch geometry in a platinum (Pt) nanostructure, which is an increasingly important material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-02 Koong Chee Weng , N. Chandrasekhar , Christian Miniatura , Berthold-Georg Englert

Just as electronic shot noise in driven conductors results from the granularity of charge and the statistical variation in the arrival times of charge carriers, there are predictions for fundamental noise in magnon currents due to angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Renjie Luo , Xuanhan Zhao , Tanner J. Legvold , Liyang Chen , Changjiang Liu , Deshun Hong , Anand Bhattacharya , Douglas Natelson

Spin-charge conversion via inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) is essential for enabling various applications of spintronics. The spin Hall response usually follows a universal scaling relation with longitudinal electric resistivity and has…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-31 W. Jiao , D. Z. Hou , C. Chen , H. Wang , Y. Z. Zhang , Y. Tian , Z. Y. Qiu , S. Okamoto , K. Watanabe , A. Hirata , T. Egami , E. Saitoh , M. W. Chen

The spin-to-charge current interconversion in bilayers composed of ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic layers with strong spin-orbit coupling has garnered considerable attention due to its exceptional potential in advancing spintronics devices…

We show that the driving field of circularly polarized light (CPL) can be used to enhance and reverse the spin current generated in the spin Hall effect for some transition-metal dichalcogenides. This is demonstrated by analyzing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Naoya Arakawa , Kenji Yonemitsu

The spin Hall effect (SHE) converts charge current to pure spin currents in orthogonal directions in materials that have significant spin-orbit coupling.The efficiency of the conversion is described by the spin Hall Angle (SHA). The SHA can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Weifeng Zhang , Wei Han , Xin Jiang , See-Hun Yang , Stuart S. P. Parkin