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The Orbital Hall effect, which originates from materials with weak spin-orbit coupling, has attracted considerable interest for spin-orbitronic applications. Here, we demonstrate the inverse effect of the orbital Hall effect and observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Ping Wang , Zheng Feng , Yuhe Yang , Delin Zhang , Quancheng Liu , Zedong Xu , Zhiyan Jia , Yong Wu , Guoqiang Yu , Xiaoguang Xu , Yong Jiang

The origin of the Thomas factor 1/2 in the spin-orbit hamiltonian can be understood by considering the case of a classical electron moving in crossed electric and magnetic fields chosen such that the electric Coulomb force is balanced by…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-10 Herbert Kroemer

We describe an intrinsic spin-Hall effect in $n$-type bulk zinc-blende semiconductors with topological origin. When electron transport is confined to a waveguide structure, and the applied electric field is such that the spins of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 T. Fujita , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

In this review, we describe in detail two important spin-transport phenomena: the extrinsic spin-Hall effect (coming from spin-orbit interactions between electrons and impurities) and the spin-Coulomb drag. The interplay of these two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. M. Hankiewicz , G. Vignale

A theory of the anomalous and spin Hall effects, based on the space distribution of the current densities, is presented. Spin-orbit coupling gives rise to a space separation of the mass centers, as well as a current density separation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-09 Pavel Středa , Thibaut Jonckheere

Parallel circuit and the Lorentz forces on current carrying wires are important concepts in introductory physics courses. Here we describe an experiment that illustrates these two concepts. We mount a circuit with multiple grounding points…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Audrey Yueru Li , Shengchao Alfred Li

The spin Hall effect and its inverse play key roles in spintronic devices since they allow conversion of charge currents to and from spin currents. The conversion efficiency strongly depends on material details, such as the electronic band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 D. H. Wei , Y. Niimi , B. Gu , T. Ziman , S. Maekawa , Y. Otani

The longitudinal current in a three-dimensional conductor is accompanied by transverse magnetic field in a specimen bulk. The absence of the transverse current in a sample bulk requires a nonzero Hall electric field in transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 M. V. Cheremisin

Reversible spin Hall effect comprising the "direct" and "inverse" spin Hall effects was successfully detected at room temperature. This experimental demonstration proves the fundamental relations called Onsager reciprocal relations between…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Kimura , Y. Otani , T. Sato , S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

It was proposed recently by Murakami et al. [Science \textbf{301}, 1348(2003)] that in a large class of $p$-doped semiconductors, an applied electric field can drive a quantum dissipationless spin current in the direction perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Liangbin Hu , Ju Gao , Shun-Qing Shen

Based on quantum field theory, we formulate the Wigner function and quantum kinetic theory for polarized photons in curved spacetimes which admit a covariantly constant timelike vector. From this framework, the photonic chiral/zilch…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-20 Kazuya Mameda , Naoki Yamamoto , Di-Lun Yang

We develop a theoretical formula of spin Hall torque in the presence of two ferromagnets. While the direction of the conventional spin Hall torque always points to the in-plane direction, the present system enables to manipulate the torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Seiji Mitani , Masamitsu Hayashi

The spin Hall effect does not generally result in a charge Hall voltage. We predict that in systems with inhomogeneous electron density in the direction perpendicular to main current flow, the spin Hall effect is instead accompanied by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-23 Yu. V. Pershin , M. Di Ventra

We predict a new effect in electronic bilayers: the {\it Spin Hall Drag}. The effect consists in the generation of spin accumulation across one layer by an electric current along the other layer. It arises from the combined action of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. M. Badalyan , G. Vignale

I show that no force or torque is generated in cases involving a charge and a magnet with their relative velocity zero, in any inertial frame of reference. A recent suspicion of an anomalous torque and conflict with relativity in this case…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-05-09 C. S. Unnikrishnan

We study the spin Hall effect of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a magnetic field and both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. We show that the value of the spin Hall conductivity, which is finite only if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Lucignano , R. Raimondi , A. Tagliacozzo

The spin Seebeck effect refers to the generation of a spin voltage caused by a temperature gradient in a ferromagnet, which enables the thermal injection of spin currents from the ferromagnet into an attached nonmagnetic metal over a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hiroto Adachi , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

The Dirac equation is extended for a relativistic electron in an orthorhombically-anisotropic conduction band. Its covariance is established with general proper and improper Lorentz transformations. In the non-relativistic limit, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-09 Aiying Zhao , Jingchuan Zhang , Qiang Gu , Richard A. Klemm

Current-induced spin torque and magnetization dynamics in the presence of spin Hall effect in magnetic textures is studied theoretically. The local deviation of the charge current gives rise to a current-induced spin torque of the form…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Aurelien Manchon , Kyung-Jin Lee