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Silicon's weak intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and centrosymmetric crystal structure are a critical bottleneck to the development of Si spintronics, because they lead to an insignificant spin-Hall effect (spin current generation) and inverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Paul C. Lou , Anand Katailiha , Ravindra G. Bhardwaj , Tonmoy Bhowmick , W. P. Beyermann , Roger K. Lake , Sandeep Kumar

Magnetoresistance (MR) provides a crucial tool for experimentally studying spin torques. While MR is well established in the device geometry of the spin Hall effect (SHE), as exemplified by the magnet/heavy-metal heterostructures, its role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

The spin Hall effect in heavy-metal thin films is routinely employed to convert charge currents into transverse spin currents and can be used to exert torque on adjacent ferromagnets. Conversely, the inverse spin Hall effect is frequently…

Despite being known for a long time the anomalous Hall effect still attracts attention because of its complex origins, its connection to topology and because it serves as a useful probe of the magnetic order. Here we study the anomalous…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-31 Jakub Železný , Yuta Yahagi , Carlés-Gomez Ollivella , Yang Zhang , Yan Sun

Spin Hall effects are a collection of phenomena, resulting from spin-orbit coupling, in which an electrical current flowing through a sample can lead to spin transport in a perpendicular direction and spin accumulation at lateral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin textures touted as next-generation computing elements. When subjected to lateral currents, skyrmions move at considerable speeds. Their topological charge results in an additional transverse deflection…

An {\it ab initio} relativistic band structure calculation of spin Hall conductivity (SHC) ($\sigma_{xy}^z$) in Pd and Au metals has been performed. It is found that at low temperatures, intrinsic SHCs for Pd and Au are, respectively, $\sim…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 G. Y. Guo

We start closing a gap in the comparison of experimental and theoretical data associated with the spin Hall effect. Based on a first-principles characterization of electronic structure and a semiclassical description of electron transport,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Albert Hönemann , Christian Herschbach , Dmitry V. Fedorov , Martin Gradhand , Ingrid Mertig

An intriguing feature of spintronics is the use of pure spin-currents to manipulate magnetization, e.g., spin-currents can switch magnetization in spin-torque MRAM, a next-generation DRAM alternative. Giant spin-currents via the spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Mathias Weiler , Justin M. Shaw , Hans T. Nembach , Thomas J. Silva

The paramount acumen for controlling spin transport properties in nonmagnetic materials is the usage of spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We propose a model to calculate the spin hall angle (SHA) for the elemental transition metal dichalcogenide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Swastik Sahoo , Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are promising candidates for next-generation spintronic devices due to their tunable properties and potential for efficient spin-charge interconversion. However, discovering materials with intrinsically high…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-25 Abhijeet J. Kale , Sanjeev S. Navaratna , Pratik Sahu , Henry Chan , B. R. K. Nanda , Rohit Batra

We investigate the intrinsic orbital Hall conductivity (OHC) and spin Hall conductivity (SHC) in a bismuth semimetal, by employing an sp-orbital tight-binding model. We report a notable difference between the anisotropy of OHC and SHC whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-21 Guanxiong Qu , Gen Tatara

The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon that an electric field induces a spin Hall current. In this Letter, we examine the inverse effect that, in a ferromagnetic conductor, a charge Hall current is induced by a spin motive force, or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno

Despite the recent success of identifying experimental signatures of the orbital Hall effect (OHE), the research on the microscopic mechanisms behind this unique phenomenon is still in its infancy. Here, using a gapped 2D Dirac material as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Alessandro Veneri , Tatiana G. Rappoport , Aires Ferreira

Anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is a fundamental spin-dependent transport property that is widely used in spintronics. It is generally expected that currents carrying net spin polarization are required to drive the AHE. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Rui-Chun Xiao , Zi-An Wang , W. J. Lu , Y. P. Sun , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Ferromagnetic pyrochlore and spinel materials with topological flat bands are of interest for their potential to exhibit a giant anomalous Hall effect (AHE). In this work, we present computational predictions of stability and electronic…

We report that by measuring current-induced hysteresis loop shift versus in-plane bias magnetic field, the spin Hall effect (SHE) contribution of the current-induced effective field per current density, $\chi_{SHE}$, can be estimated for Pt…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-12 Chi-Feng Pai , Maxwell Mann , Aik Jun Tan , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

The energy efficiency of the spin Hall effects (SHE) can be enhanced if the electrical conductivity is decreased without sacrificing the spin Hall conductivity. The resistivity of Pt films can be increased to 150-300 {\mu}{\Omega}*cm by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Chuan Qin , Yongming Luo , Chao Zhou , Yunjiao Cai , Mengwen Jia , Shuhan Chen , Yizheng Wu , Yi Ji

The ZrSiS-type compounds are Dirac semimetals and have been attracting considerable interest in recent years due to their topological electronic properties and possible applications. In particular, gapped Dirac nodes can possess large spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Yun Yen , Guang-Yu Guo

Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) facilitates spin manipulation without relying on an external magnetic field, opening up exciting possibilities for advanced spintronic devices. In this work, we examine the effects of crystal momentum ($k$)…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-06 Arjyama Bordoloi , Sobhit Singh