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Contrary to conventional wisdom that spin dynamics induced by current are exclusive to metallic magnets, we theoretically predict that such phenomena can also be realized in magnetic insulators, specifically in the magnetoelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 R. M. Dubrovin , Z. V. Gareeva , A. V. Kimel , A. K. Zvezdin

A new physical mechanism for generating spin-transfer torque is proposed. It is due to interference of bias driven nonequilibrium electrons incident on a switching junction with the electrons reflected from an insulating barrier inserted in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 G. Autès , J. Mathon , A. Umerski

Spintronics exploits spin-orbit coupling (SOC) to generate spin currents, spin torques, and, in the absence of inversion symmetry, Rashba, and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI). The widely used magnetic materials, based on 3d metals…

The physical mechanisms underlying current-driven skyrmion motion include the spin-transfer torque exerted by a spin-polarized horizontal electric current and the spin-orbit torque exerted by a perpendicular spin current. Each mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Yuto Uwabo , Ryo Fujimoto , Kimimaro Yanai , Masahito Mochizuki

We demonstrate that spin-orbit coupled electrons in a magnetically doped system exert a spin torque on the local magnetization, without a flowing current, when the chemical potential is modulated in a magnetic field. The spin torque is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-17 Kentaro Nomura , Daichi Kurebayashi

In this work we report observation of in-plane current induced out-of-plane magnetic field driven torque in spin valve structure. Since ferromagnet has high spin orbit coupling it is expected to be the source of spin-orbit-torque as it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Arnab Bose , Duc Duong Lam , Swapnil Bhuktare , Sutapa Dutta , Hanuman Singh , Shinji Miwa , Ashwin A. tulapurkar

Motivated by recent experimental studies of thin-film devices containing a single ferromagnetic layer, we develop a quantum kinetic theory of current-induced magnetic torques in Rashba-model ferromagnets. We find that current-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. A. Pesin , A. H. MacDonald

Extensive efforts have been devoted to the study of spin-orbit torque in ferromagnetic metal/heavy metal bilayers and exploitation of it for magnetization switching using an in-plane current. As the spin-orbit torque is inversely…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Kui Yao , Baoxi Xu , Yihong Wu

Coupling between conduction electrons and localized magnetization is responsible for a variety of phenomena in spintronic devices. This coupling enables to generate spin currents from dynamical magnetization. Due to the nonlinearity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Takaharu Tashiro , Saki Matsuura , Akiyo Nomura , Shun Watanabe , Keehoon Kang , Henning Sirringhaus , Kazuya Ando

We study the current-induced torques in bilayers composed of a light 3d metal, chromium, and a rare-earth ferromagnet with finite orbital moments, terbium, utilizing second-harmonic Hall-response measurements. The dampinglike torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Hongyu Chen , Han Yan , Xiaorong Zhou , Xiaoning Wang , Ziang Meng , Li Liu , Guojian Zhao , Zhiyuan Duan , Sixu Jiang , Jingyu Li , Xiaoyang Tan , Peixin Qin , Zhiqi Liu

Recent discovery of orbital currents in several material platforms including light element metals has opened new possibilities for exploring novel transport phenomena and applications to spin-orbitronic devices. These orbital currents,…

We study the influence of an electric current on a continuous non-collinear antiferromagnetic texture. Despite the lack of a net magnetic moment we find that the exchange interaction between conduction electrons and local magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 A. C. Swaving , R. A. Duine

We use a perturbative approach to study the effects of interfacial spin-orbit coupling in magnetic multilayers by treating the two-dimensional Rashba model in a fully three-dimensional description of electron transport near an interface.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee , Jairo Sinova , Hyun-Woo Lee , M. D. Stiles

Spin-orbit spin transfer torque allows an efficient control of magnetization by an in-plane current. Recent experiments found that the spin-orbit torque has strong dependence on the magnetization angle [Garello et al., Nature Nanotechnol.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Seo-Won Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

Spin torques play a crucial role in operative properties of modern spintronic devices. To study current-driven magnetization dynamics, spin-torque terms providing the action of spin-polarized currents have previously often been added in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-26 Ritwik Mondal , Marco Berritta , Peter M. Oppeneer

In systems with strong spin-orbit coupling, the relationship between spin-transfer torque and the divergence of the spin current is generalized to a relation between spin transfer torques, total angular momentum current, and mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Paul M. Haney , M. D. Stiles

Current-induced torques in ultrathin Co/Pt bilayers were investigated using an electrically driven FMR technique. The angle dependence of the resonances, detected by a rectification effect as a voltage, were analysed to determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 T. D. Skinner , M. Wang , A. T. Hindmarch , A. W. Rushforth , A. C. Irvine , D. Heiss , H. Kurebayashi , A. J. Ferguson

Employing unbiased large-scale time-dependent density-matrix renormalization-group simulations, we demonstrate the generation of a charge-current vortex via spin injection in the Rashba system. The spin current is polarized perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Florian Lange , Satoshi Ejima , Junji Fujimoto , Tomonori Shirakawa , Holger Fehske , Seiji Yunoki , Sadamichi Maekawa

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Michael E. Flatté

We investigate the current-induced spin-orbit torque in antiferromangnetic materials in the presence of Rashba spin orbit coupling using both the linear response theory and the non-equilibrium Green's function technique implemented on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Hamed Ben Mohamed Saidaoui , Aurelien Manchon