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Spin-orbit torque (SOT) enables ultra-fast, energy-efficient magnetization switching, making it a promising mechanism for introducing MRAMs for cache memory applications. However, current SOT-MRAM devices face write efficiency limitations,…

Spin current plays a central role in spintronics. In particular, finding more efficient ways to generate spin current has been an important issue and studied actively. For example, representative methods of spin current generation include…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Keita Hamamoto , Motohiko Ezawa , Kun Woo Kim , Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

Converting magnetization spin to orbital current often relies on strong spin-orbit interaction that may cause additional angular momentum dissipation. We report that coherent magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructures can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Chengyuan Cai , Hanchen Wang , Tao Yu

The magnitude of spin-orbit torque (SOT), exerted to a ferromagnet (FM) from an adjacent heavy metal (HM), strongly depends on the amount of spin currents absorbed in the FM. We exploit the large spin absorption at the Ru interface to…

Extensive efforts have been devoted to the study of spin-orbit torque in ferromagnetic metal/heavy metal bilayers and exploitation of it for magnetization switching using an in-plane current. As the spin-orbit torque is inversely…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Kui Yao , Baoxi Xu , Yihong Wu

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) created by a spin current injected into a ferromagnet by an adjacent heavy metal represents an efficient tool for the excitation and manipulation of spin waves. Here we report the micromagnetic simulations describing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Andrei I. Nikitchenko , Nikolay A. Pertsev

Spin Hall effect plays an essential role in generating spin current from the injected charge current, following the Dyakonov-Perel rule that the directions of charge flow, spin flow and spin polarization are mutually perpendicular to each…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Po-Hung Lin , Po-Wei Lee , Yu-Hsuan Lin , Bo-Yuan Yang , Vinod Kumar , Hsiu-Hau Lin , Chih-Huang Lai

Electrical readout of 180$^\circ$ switching in strictly compensated collinear antiferromagnets remains a major challenge in antiferromagnetic spintronics. Electrical writing of perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnets by out-of-plane orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Hui Wang , Huiying Liu , Yanfeng Ge , Xukun Feng , Jiaojiao Zhu , Jin Cao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Lay Kee Ang

Stimulated generally by recent interest in the novel spin Hall effect, the nonrelativistic quantum mechanical conserved currents, taken into account of spin-orbit coupling, are rigorously formulated based on the symmetries of system and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Yong Wang , Ke Xia , Zhao-Bin Su , Zhongshui Ma

The nonlinear Hall effect is a new type of Hall effect that has recently attracted significant attention. For the physical origin of the nonlinear Hall effect, while orbital magnetization has long been hypothesized to underpin the nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Zesheng Zhang , Xin-Zhi Li , Wen-Yu He

The spin Hall effect (SHE) generates spin currents within nonmagnetic materials. Previously, studies of the SHE have been motivated primarily to understand its fundamental origin and magnitude. Here we demonstrate, using measurement and…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 Luqiao Liu , O. J. Lee , T. J. Gudmundsen , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

The spin-orbit coupling (SOC) affecting the center of mass of ultracold atoms can be simulated using a properly chosen periodic sequence of magnetic pulses. Yet such a method is generally accompanied by micro-motion which hinders a precise…

Spin Hall effect in a nonlocal spin-injection device is theoretically studied. Using a nonlocal spin-injection technique, a pure spin current is created in a nonmagnetic metal (N). The spin current flowing in N is deflected by spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

Electric generation of spin current via spin Hall effect is of great interest as it allows an efficient manipulation of magnetization in spintronic devices. Theoretically, spin current can be also created by a temperature gradient, which is…

Spin-orbit torque in heavy metal/ferromagnet heterostructures with broken spatial inversion symmetry provides an efficient mechanism for manipulating magnetization using a charge current. Here, we report the presence of a spin torque in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Ziyan Luo , Qi Zhang , Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Xinhai Zhang , Yihong Wu

While current-induced torque by orbital current has been experimentally found in various structures, evidence for its reciprocity has been missing so far. Here, we report experimental evidence of strong inverse orbital torque in YIG/Pt/CuOx…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 E. Santos , J. E. Abrão , Dongwook Go , L. K. de Assis , Yuriy Mokrousov , J. B. S. Mendes , A. Azevedo

We investigate the orbital Hall effect through a mesoscopic device with momentum-space orbital texture that is connected to four semi-infinite terminals embedded in the Landauer-B\"uttiker configuration for quantum transport. We present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 Diego B. Fonseca , Lucas L. A. Pereira , Anderson L. R. Barbosa

We report measurements of the thickness and temperature (T) dependencies of current-induced spin-orbit torques, especially the field-like (FL) component, in various heavy metal (HM)/normal metal (NM) spacer/ferromagnet (FM)/Oxide (MgO and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-02 Yongxi Ou , Chi-Feng Pai , Shengjie Shi , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Orbital currents provide a new degree of freedom for controlling magnetism, yet their interaction with lattice dynamics remains largely unexplored. Here we report a systematic investigation of the acoustic orbital Hall effect in light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Mingxing Wu , Shilei Ding , Hiroki Matsumoto , Pietro Gambardella

Controlling/storing information carriers, such as electron charge and spin, is key for modern information society, and significant efforts have been paid made to establish novel technologies at the nanoscale. The rise of Si-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-24 R. Matsumoto , R. Ohshima , M. Funato , Y. Ando , Y. Mokrousov , D. Go , M. Shiraishi