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In superconductors that lack inversion symmetry, the flow of supercurrent can induce a non-vanishing magnetization, a phenomenon which is at the heart of non-dissipative magneto-electric effects, also known as Edelstein effects. For…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-28 Luca Chirolli , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Giazotto , Mario Cuoco

The spin Edelstein effect has proven to be a promising phenomenon to generate spin polarization from a charge current in systems without inversion symmetry. In recent years, a current-induced orbital magnetization, called orbital Edelstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Sergio Leiva M. , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig , Annika Johansson

It is well known that a current driven through a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling induces a spin polarization in the perpendicular direction (Edelstein effect). This phenomenon has been extensively studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Giovanni Vignale , I. V. Tokatly

Superconductors without inversion symmetry can exhibit a non-zero magnetization when a supercurrent is present, leading to non-dissipative magnetoelectric effects. Here, we focus on understanding the relation between the spin and orbital…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-05 Satoshi Ando , Yukio Tanaka , Mario Cuoco , Luca Chirolli , Maria Teresa Mercaldo

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

Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling gives rise to distinctive surface and interface phenomena, such as spin-momentum locking and spin splitting. In nonequilibrium settings, one of the key manifestations is the (Rashba-)Edelstein effect, where…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-08 Oliver Busch , Franziska Ziolkowski , Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig , Jürgen Henk

The Edelstein effect is a promising mechanism for generating spin and orbital polarization from charge currents in systems without inversion symmetry. In ferroelectric materials, such as Germanium Telluride (GeTe), the combination of bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Sergio Leiva-Montecinos , Libor Vojáček , Jing Li , Mairbek Chshiev , Laurent Vila , Ingrid Mertig , Annika Johansson

Rashba effect describes how electrons moving in an electric field experience a momentum dependent magnetic field that couples to the electron angular momentum (spin). This physical phenomenon permits the generation of spin polarization from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Florent Auvray , Jorge Puebla , Mingran Xu , Bivas Rana , Daisuke Hashizume , Yoshichika Otani

In materials with spin-momentum locked spin textures, such as Rashba states and topological surface states, the current-induced shift of the Fermi contour in the k space leads to spin polarization, known as the Edelstein effect, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xing-Guo Ye , Peng-Fei Zhu , Wen-Zheng Xu , Tong-Yang Zhao , Zhi-Min Liao

Manifestation of orbital coupling of spin degree of freedom in condensed matter systems has opened up a new dimension for the field of spintronics. The most appealing aspect of the spin-orbit coupling is the apparent Magnus force sensed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Tapas Senapati , Ashwin Kumar , Kartik Senapati

Altermagnets have zero net magnetization yet feature spin-split bands. Here, we investigate how slow lattice vibrations (phonons) influence both the intrinsic and externally induced spin polarizations in two-dimensional $d$-wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-04 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Jacob Linder , James K. Freericks

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 investigate spin-to-charge conversion via the Edelstein effect in a 2D Rashba electron gas using the semiclassical Boltzmann approach. We analyze the magnetization arising from the direct Edelstein effect, taking into account an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Irene Gaiardoni , Mattia Trama , Alfonso Maiellaro , Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Romeo , Roberta Citro

The Rashba-Edelstein effect stems from the interaction between the electron's spin and its momentum induced by spin-orbit interaction at an interface or a surface. It was shown that the inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect can be used to convert…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 M. B. Jungfleisch , W. Zhang , J. Sklenar , W. Jiang , J. E. Pearson , J. B. Ketterson , A. Hoffmann

Nonlinear spintronics combines nonlinear dynamics with spintronics, opening up new possibilities beyond linear responses. A recent theoretical work [Xiao et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 166302 (2023)] predicts the nonlinear generation of spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-30 Insu Baek , Seungyun Han , Suik Cheon , Hyun-Woo Lee

We theoretically demonstrate that a rotating electric-field component of circularly polarized microwave or terahertz light can induce electron-spin polarization within a few picoseconds in a two-dimensional electron system with the Rashba…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-21 Masahito Mochizuki , Keisuke Ihara , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akihito Takeuchi

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

The Edelstein effect is the origin of the spin-orbit torque: a current-induced torque that is used for the electrical control of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials. This effect originates from the relativistic spin-orbit…

The linear Edelstein effect is a cornerstone phenomenon in spintronics that describes the generation of spin magnetization in response to an applied electric field. Recent theoretical advances have reignited interest in its nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Jinxiong Jia , Longjun Xiang , Zhenhua Qiao , Jian Wang

The Edelstein effect provides the purely electrical generation and control of a homogeneous magnetization in primarily nonmagnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry. Usually, only the spin density response to an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Annika Johansson , Börge Göbel , Jürgen Henk , Manuel Bibes , Ingrid Mertig
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