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The spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) in a bilayer system consisting of a magnetic insulator such as Y3Fe5O12 and a normal metal with spin-orbit interaction such as Pt is addressed theoretically. We model the ST-FMR for all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Takahiro Chiba , Michael Schreier , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Saburo Takahashi

The spin torque exerted on a magnetic moment is a reaction to spin filtering when spin-polarized electrons interact with a thin ferromagnetic film. We show that, for certain conditions, a spin transmission resonance (STR) gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wonkee Kim , F. Marsiglio

The large spin orbit coupling in topological insulators results in helical spin-textured Dirac surface states that are attractive for topological spintronics. These states generate an efficient spin-orbit torque on proximal magnetic moments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yang Lv , James Kally , Delin Zhang , Joon Sue Lee , Mahdi Jamali , Nitin Samarth , Jian-Ping Wang

An applied electric current through a space-inversion asymmetric magnet induces spin-orbit torques (SOTs) on the magnetic moments, which holds much promise for future memory devices. We discuss general Green's function expressions suitable…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-19 Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

It is shown that the current-induced torques between a ferromagnetic layer and an antiferromagnetic layer with a compensated interface vanish when the ferromagnet is aligned with an axis of spin-rotation symmetry of the antiferromagnet. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Karthik Prakya , Adrian Popescu , Paul M. Haney

Ferromagnetic heterostructures provide an ideal platform to explore the nature of spin-orbit torques arising from the interplay mediated by itinerant electrons between a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling and a ferromagnetic exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Xuhui Wang , Christian Ortiz Pauyac , Aurelien Manchon

A possibility to excite a stable self-oscillation in a perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnet by the spin Hall effect is investigated theoretically. It had been shown that such self-oscillation cannot be stabilized solely by the direct spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Tomohiro Taniguchi

The spin Hall effect in nonmagnetic materials has been intensively studied and became one of the most crucial spin-charge conversion mechanism in spintronics. However, the spin Hall effect in ferromagnetic metals has been less investigated…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-08 Fanxing Zheng , Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Meng Zhu , Ye Zhou , Jia Zhang

Self-induced spin-orbit torques (SI-SOTs) in ferromagnetic (FM) layers have been overlooked when estimating the spin Hall angle (SHA) of adjacent nonmagnetic (NM) layers. In this work, we observe anomalous sign inversion of the total SOT in…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-22 Motomi Aoki , Ei Shigematsu , Ryo Ohshima , Teruya Shinjo , Masashi Shiraishi , Yuichiro Ando

Effectively manipulating magnetism in ferromagnet (FM) thin film nanostructures with an in-plane current has become feasible since the determination of a 'giant' spin Hall effect (SHE) in certain heavy metal (HM)/FM system. Recently, both…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-29 Yongxi Ou , Shengjie Shi , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Magnon torques, which can operate without involving moving electrons, could circumvent the Joule heating issue. In conventional magnon torque systems, the spin source layer with strong spin-orbit coupling is utilized to inject magnons, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 Yuchen Pu , Guoyi Shi , Hua Bai , Xinhou Chen , Chenhui Zhang , Zhaohui Li , Mehrdad Elyasi , Hyunsoo Yang

We have previously reported ferromagnetism evinced by a large hysteretic anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG). Subsequent measurements of a quantized Hall resistance and small longitudinal resistance confirmed that this…

Spin currents can exert spin-transfer torques on magnetic systems even in the limit of vanishingly small net magnetization, as is the case for antiferromagnets. Here, we experimentally show that a spin-transfer torque is operative in a…

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

The topological force and torque are investigated in the systems with spin-orbit coupling. Our results show that the topological force and torque appears as a pure relativistic quantum effect in an electromagnetic field. The origin of both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. J. Huang , R. Qi , Y. D. Li , W. M. Liu

The low power manipulation of magnetization is currently a highly sought-after objective in spintronics. Non ferromagnetic large spin-orbit coupling heavy metal (NM) / ferromagnet (FM) heterostructures offer interesting elements of response…

Recent studies rediscovered the crucial role of field-like spin orbit torque (SOT) in nanosecond-timescale SOT dynamics. However, there is not yet an effective way to control its relative amplitude. Here, we experimentally modulate the…

Quantum oxide materials possess a vast range of properties stemming from the interplay between the lattice, charge, spin and orbital degrees of freedom, in which electron correlations often play an important role. Historically, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-10 Felix Trier , Paul Noël , Joo-Von Kim , Jean-Philippe Attané , Laurent Vila , Manuel Bibes

The spin-Hall effect describes the interconversion of charge currents and spin currents, enabling highly efficient manipulation of magnetization for spintronics. Symmetry conditions generally restrict polarizations of these spin currents to…

Recent discovery of spin-orbit torques (SOTs) within magnetic single-layers has attracted attention in the field of spintronics. However, it has remained elusive as to how to understand and how to tune the SOTs. Here, utilizing the single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 Lijun Zhu , Daniel C. Ralph , Robert A. Buhrman