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Spin-orbitronics, based on both spin and orbital angular momentum, presents a promising pathway for energy-efficient memory and logic devices. Recent studies have demonstrated the emergence of orbital currents in light transition metals…

In this work, the spin pumping technique was employed to investigate the anomalous inverse spin Hall effect in BIG/NiO/Fe samples where BIG[(Bi,Tm)3(Fe,Ga)5O12] exhibits perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Our results reveal an intriguing…

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Understanding the magnetization dynamics induced by spin transfer torques in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic tunnel junction nanopillars and its dependence on material parameters is critical to optimizing device performance. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Jamileh Beik Mohammadi , Andrew D. Kent

The commonly believed absence of skyrmion Hall effect for topologically trivial magnetic skyrmions is reconsidered for bilayer skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets driven by spin-transfer and spin-orbit torques. Using a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Mu-Kun Lee , Javier A. Vélez , Rubén M. Otxoa , Masahito Mochizuki

We theoretically study the spin-polarized transport through a single-molecule magnet, which is weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads, by means of the rate-equation approach. We consider both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Haiqing Xie , Qiang Wang , Bo Chang , Hujun Jiao , J. -Q. Liang

We propose a tunneling spin Hall effect in a normal metal/$p$-wave magnet/superconductor junction. It is found that the Andreev reflection in the normal lead is spin-dependent and exhibits strong asymmetry with respect to the transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 W. Zeng

The spin Hall effect (SHE), induced by spin-orbit interaction in nonmagnetic materials, is one of the promising phenomena for conversion between charge and spin currents in spintronic devices. The spin Hall (SH) angle is the characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Y. Niimi , H. Suzuki , Y. Kawanishi , Y. Omori , T. Valet , A. Fert , Y. Otani

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) couples charge and spin transport, enabling electrical control of magnetization. A quintessential example of SOI-induced transport is the anomalous Hall effect (AHE), first observed in 1880, in which an electric…

Spin Hall Effect is relativistic quantum mechanical effect which enables non-magnetic materials show magnetic phenomena without the application of a magnetic field. With spin Hall Effect, one can realize spintronics devices operating purely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-11 Dhavala Suri , R. S. Patel

Orbital angular momentum transport has emerged as a promising route for manipulating magnetic devices, yet its generation has largely relied on the conventional orbital Hall effect. Here, we show that ferro-rotational order enables the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-12 Daegeun Jo , Peter M. Oppeneer

We present the current-induced switching of the internal magnetization direction in a magnetic topological insulator/topological insulator heterostructure in the quantum anomalous Hall regime. The switching process is based on the bias…

Experimental investigations of spin-charge interconversion in magnetic bilayers comprising a ferromagnet adjacent to a topological insulator have reported scattered results on the spin-charge and charge-spin conversion efficiency.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Aurelien Manchon , Shuyuan Shi , Hyunsoo Yang

The Hall effect, in which current flows perpendicular to an applied electrical bias, has played a prominent role in modern condensed matter physics over much of the subject's history. Appearing variously in classical, relativistic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-08 Libor Smejkal , Allan H. MacDonald , Jairo Sinova , Satoru Nakatsuji , Tomas Jungwirth

We predict a spin anomalous-Hall unidirectional magnetoresistance (AH-UMR) in conducting bilayers composed of a ferromagnetic layer and a nonmagnetic layer, which does $\textit{not}$ rely on the spin Hall effect in the normal metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-30 M. Mehraeen , Steven S. -L. Zhang

We search for dynamical magnetoelectric phenomena in three-dimensional correlated systems with spin-orbit coupling. We focus on the antiferromagnetic insulator phases where the dynamical axion field is realized by the fluctuation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-02 Akihiko Sekine , Kentaro Nomura

Understanding the mechanism driving magnetization switching in spin-orbit-torque-assisted devices remains a subject of debate. While originally attributed to the spin Hall effect and spin Rashba-Edelstein effect, recent discoveries related…

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

Current-induced spin-orbit torques provide a versatile tool for switching magnetic devices. In perpendicular magnets, the dampinglike component of the torque is the main driver of magnetization reversal. The degree to which the fieldlike…

We study a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. It is shown analytically that the spin-orbit interaction acts as a transversal effective electric field, whose orientation depends on the sign of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez

It is widely believed that the skyrmion Hall effect is absent in antiferromagnets because of the vanishing topological charge. However, the Aharonov-Casher theory indicates the possibility of topological effects for neutral particles. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 Zhejunyu Jin , Zhaozhuo Zeng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan