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The electronic and optoelectronic properties of two dimensional materials have been extensively explored in graphene and layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Spintronics in these two-dimensional materials could provide novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 Qiming Shao , Guoqiang Yu , Yann-Wen Lan , Yumeng Shi , Ming-Yang Li , Cheng Zheng , Xiaodan Zhu , Lain-Jong Li , Pedram Khalili Amiri , Kang L. Wang

The spin phenomena observed at a clean metall-insulator interface are typically reduced to Rashba-Edelstein effect, that leads to spin accumulation over a few monolayers. We demonstrate that the presence of interface disorder significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 A. V. Shumilin , V. V. Kabanov

Non-relativistic momentum-dependent spin splitting, as observed in collinear altermagnets and non-collinear $p$-wave magnets, provides exciting avenues for controlling spin dynamics. Here, we reveal a distinct form of non-relativistic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-18 Ping Li , G. A. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova , Tao Yu

The Rashba-Edelstein effect (REE), which generates interfacial spin polarization and subsequent spin current, is a compelling spin-charge conversion mechanism for spintronics applications, since it is not limited by the elemental spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Jing Li , Andrew H. Comstock , Aeron McConnell , Dali Sun , Xiaoshan Xu

We investigate the origin of spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in archetypical Pt/Co/MgO thin films structures by performing harmonic Hall measurements. The behaviour of the damping like (DL) effective field ($h_{DL}$) with varying the Pt layer…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-12 M. S. Gabor , M. Belmeguenai , I. M. Miron

Two dimensional electron systems at oxide interfaces are often influenced by a Rashba type spin- orbit coupling (SOC), which is tunable by a transverse electric field. Ferromagnetism at the interface can simultaneously induce strong local…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-23 Florian Loder , Arno P. Kampf , Thilo Kopp

The quasi-two-dimensional electron gas found at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface offers exciting new functionalities, such as tunable superconductivity, and has been proposed as a new nanoelectronics fabrication platform. Here we lay out a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 A. D. Caviglia , M. Gabay , S. Gariglio , N. Reyren , C. Cancellieri , J. -M. Triscone

We study how the Rashba spin-orbit interaction influences unconventional superconductivity in a two dimensional electron gas partially spin-polarized by a magnetic field. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that for all field orientations, only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-01 Ethan Lake , Caleb Webb , D. A. Pesin , O. A. Starykh

We describe the simultaneous effects of the spin-orbit (SO) perturbation and a magnetic field $B$ on a disk shaped quantum dot (QD). {As it is known the} combination of electrostatic forces among the $N$ electrons confined in the QD and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We report the observation of magnetoresistance originating from Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a metallic heterostructure: the Rashba-Edelstein (RE) magnetoresistance. We show that the simultaneous action of the direct and inverse RE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 Hiroyasu Nakayama , Yusuke Kanno , Hongyu An , Takaharu Tashiro , Satoshi Haku , Akiyo Nomura , Kazuya Ando

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

Spin-orbit interaction and structure inversion asymmetry in combination with magnetic ordering is a promising route to novel materials with highly mobile spin-polarized carriers at the surface. Spin-resolved measurements of the…

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 examine the bound-state and free-state contributions to the density of states in a three-dimensional electron gas with a two-dimensional interface with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Confinement of electrons to the interface is achieved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 A. C. Zulkoskey , R. Dick , K. Tanaka

We investigate the inverse Edelstein effect in a non-homogeneous system consisting of a ferromagnetic layer coupled to a Rashba two-dimensional electron gas. Within a semiclassical Boltzmann framework, we derive analytical expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Irene Gaiardoni , Mattia Trama , Alfonso Maiellaro , Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Romeo , Roberta Citro

Recent experiments by S. Krishnia et al., Nano Lett. 23, 6785 (2023) reported an unprecedentedly large enhancement of torques upon inserting thin Al layer in Co/Pt heterostructure that suggested the presence of a Rashba-like interaction at…

The phenomenon originating from spin-orbit coupling (SOC) provides energy-efficient strategies for spin manipulation and device applications. The broken inversion symmetry interface and resulting electric field induce a Rashba-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Xinhe Wang , Wei Yang , Wang Yang , Yuan Cao , Xiaoyang Lin , Guodong Wei , Haichang Lu , Peizhe Tang , Weisheng Zhao

We develop an effective tight-binding Hamiltonian for spin-orbit (SO) interaction in bent carbon nanotubes (CNT) for the electrons forming the $\pi$ bonds between the nearest neighbor atoms. We account for the bend of the CNT and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 E. N. Osika , B. Szafran

We show that Py, a commonly-used soft ferromagnetic material with weak anisotropy, can become perpendicularly-magnetized while depositing on Ta buffer layer with Hf or Zr insertion layers (ILs) and MgO capping layer. By using two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-23 Tian-Yue Chen , Yongxi Ou , Tsung-Yu Tsai , Robert A. Buhrman , Chi-Feng Pai

Recent studies using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS) with spintronic emitters as a source have revealed distinct signatures of the Rashba effect. This effect, which arises from the breaking of inversion symmetry in…