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Identifying materials with an efficient spin-to-charge conversion is crucial for future spintronic applications. The spin Hall effect is a central mechanism as it allows for the interconversion of spin and charge currents. Spintronic…

Spin-orbit-torque-driven auto-oscillations in spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs) offer a transformative pathway toward energy-efficient, nanoscale microwave devices for next-generation neuromorphic computing and high-frequency technologies.…

High density data storage and spin-logic devices require highly efficient all-electric control of spin moments. So far, charge-to-spin conversion through the spin Hall effect (SHE) highly limits to d-orbital materials associated with strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-28 Gen Li , Ying Zhang , Xiaoguang Xu , Lei Shen , Zheng Feng , Kangkang Meng , Ang Li , Lu Cheng , Kang He , Wei Tan , Yong Wu , Yihong Wu , Yong Jiang

In recent years, the spin Hall effect has received great attention because of its potential application in spintronics and quantum information processing and storage. However, this effect is usually studied under the external homogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Anwei Zhang , Jun-Won Rhim

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

The spin-orbit interaction in a solid couples the spin of an electron to its momentum. This coupling gives rise to mutual conversion between spin and charge currents: the direct and inverse spin Hall effects. The spin Hall effects have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Kazuya Ando , Eiji Saitoh

The Kubo formula is used to calculate the spin-Hall conductivity in a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron system with Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction. As in the case of the unpolarized electron system, spin Hall conductivity is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Moca , D. C. Marinescu

We theoretically show that the spin Hall effect arises in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of neutral atoms interacting via the magnetic dipole-dipole interactions (MDDIs). Since the MDDI couples the total spin angular momentum and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-25 Toshiyuki Oshima , Yuki Kawaguchi

The spin Hall effect originating from 5d heavy transition metal thin films such as Pt, Ta, and W is able to generate efficient spin-orbit torques that can switch adjacent magnetic layers. This mechanism can serve as an alternative to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-30 Wei-Bang Liao , Tian-Yue Chen , Yari Ferrante , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Chi-Feng Pai

We study spin Hall effect in a three terminal Y-shaped device in presence of tunable spin-orbit (SO) interactions via Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism. We have evolved a fabrication technique for creating different angular separation between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu

The controlled generation of localized spin densities is a key enabler of semiconductor spintronics In this work, we study spin Hall effect induced edge spin accumulation in a two-dimensional hole gas with strong spin orbit interactions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Nomura , J. Wunderlich , Jairo Sinova , B. Kaestner , A. H. MacDonald , T. Jungwirth

We review the recently discovered spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) and related effects from a theoretical point of view. The SMR is observed in bilayers of a magnetic insulator and a metal, in which spin currents aregenerated in the normal…

The spin Hall effect (SHE) is an important spintronics phenomenon, which allows transforming a charge current into a spin current and vice versa without the use of magnetic materials or magnetic fields. To gain new insight into the physics…

The spin Hall effect (SHE) is normally discussed in terms of a spin current, which is ill-defined in strongly spin-orbit-coupled systems because of spin non-conservation. In this work we propose an alternative view of SHE phenomena by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Hua Chen , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

In metallic systems with spin-orbit coupling a longitudinal charge current may generate a transverse pure spin current; vice-versa an injected pure spin current may result in a transverse charge current. Such direct and inverse spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Cosimo Gorini

We consider a 2-dimensional Bloch--Landau--Pauli Hamiltonian for a spinful electron in a constant magnetic field subject to a periodic background potential. Assuming that the $z$-component of the spin operator is conserved, we compute the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Domenico Monaco , Massimo Moscolari

The spin Hall conductivity is usually calculated for periodic solids, while the knowledge of local contributions from inhomogeneous regions like interfaces or surfaces would be desirable. In this work we derive a local expression for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Tomáš Rauch , Franziska Töpler , Ingrid Mertig

The Kane-Mele model is known to show a quantized spin Hall conductivity at zero temperature. Including Hubbard interactions at each site leads to a quantum phase transition to an XY antiferromagnet at sufficiently high interaction strength.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-22 D. Lessnich , C. Gauvin-Ndiaye , Roser Valentí , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We study the topological Hall effect in a diffusive ferromagnetic metal thin film by solving a Boltzmann transport equation in the presence of spin-flip scattering. A generalized spin diffusion equation is derived, which contains an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Steven S. -L. Zhang , Olle Heinonen

We theoretically investigate the vortex spin Hall effect, i.e., a novel spin Hall effect driven by the motion of superconducting vortices, by focusing on the role of superconducting fluctuations. Within the BCS-Gor'kov microscopic approach…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-15 Takuya Taira , Yusuke Kato , Masanori Ichioka , Hiroto Adachi