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Orbital currents provide a new degree of freedom for controlling magnetism, yet their interaction with lattice dynamics remains largely unexplored. Here we report a systematic investigation of the acoustic orbital Hall effect in light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Mingxing Wu , Shilei Ding , Hiroki Matsumoto , Pietro Gambardella

We experimentally demonstrate that a spin current can be induced by the acousto-electric evanescent wave, an electric field associated with surface acoustic waves (SAWs) that decay along the surface normal. A previous study showed that a…

Spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) endow light with intriguing properties and applications such as photonic spin-Hall effects and spin-dependent vortex generations. However, it is counterintuitive that SOIs can exist for sound, which is a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Shubo Wang , Guanqing Zhang , Xulong Wang , Qing Tong , Jensen Li , Guancong Ma

Orbital angular momentum offers a new channel for information transport in a vast set of materials. Its coherent generation and detection remain, however, largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that chiral surface acoustic waves (SAWs)…

The spin-orbit interaction enables interconversion between a charge current and a spin current. It is usually believed that in a nonmagnetic metal (NM) or at a NM/ferromagnetic metal (FM) bilayer interface, the symmetry of spin-orbit…

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…

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in the GHz frequency range can inject spin currents dynamically into adjacent nonmagnetic layers via spin pumping effect associated with ferromagnetic resonance. Here, we demonstrate an enhancement of acoustic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yunyoung Hwang , Jorge Puebla , Mingran Xu , Aurelien Lagarrigue , Kouta Kondou , Yoshichika Otani

We theoretically examine the spin-transfer torque in the presence of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) at impurities in a ferromagnetic metal on the basis of linear response theory. We obtained, in addition to the usual spin-transfer torque, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno

Spin Hall effect in a nonlocal spin-injection device is theoretically studied. Using a nonlocal spin-injection technique, a pure spin current is created in a nonmagnetic metal (N). The spin current flowing in N is deflected by spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) become a popular driving source in modern condensed matter physics, but most existing theories simplify them as electric fields and ignore the non-uniform Brillouin zone folding effect. We develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Zi-Qian Zhou , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Cong Xiao , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

We show that the resonant coupling of phonons and magnons can be exploited to generate spin currents at room temperature. Surface acoustic wave (SAW) pulses with a frequency of 1.55 GHz and duration of 300 ns provide coherent elastic waves…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-30 M. Weiler , H. Huebl , F. S. Goerg , F. D. Czeschka , R. Gross , S. T. B. Goennenwein

We theoretically study the generation of spin current due to a surface acoustic wave (SAW) in a superconductor. We model an s-wave superconductor as the mean-field Hamiltonian and calculate spin current generated via spin-vorticity coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Takumi Funato , Ai Yamakage , Mamoru Matsuo

We predict high-velocity magnetic domain wall (DW) motion driven by out-of-plane acoustic spin in surface acoustic waves (SAWs). We demonstrate that the SAW propagating at a 30-degree angle relative to the x-axis of a 128-degree Y-LiNbO3…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-16 Jiacheng Lu , Fa Chen , Yiming Shu , Yukang Wen , Hang Zou , Yuhao Liu , Shiheng Liang , Wei Luo , Yue Zhang

The spin Hall effect (SHE), which converts a charge current into a transverse spin current, has long been believed to be a phenomenon induced by the spin--orbit coupling. Here, we propose an alternative mechanism to realize the intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-22 Yang Zhang , Jakub Zelezny , Yan Sun , Jeroen van den Brink , Binghai Yan

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

The generation of spin currents is a key challenge in the field of spintronics. We propose using surface acoustic waves (SAWs) to generate spin currents in altermagnetic thin films, thereby realizing an acoustic spin splitter. Altermagnets,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Pieter M. Gunnink , Jairo Sinova , Alexander Mook

The manipulation of skyrmions by surface acoustic waves (SAW) has garnered significant interest in the field of spintronic devices. Previous studies established that skyrmions can be generated and moved by strain pulses. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Philipp Schwenke , Ephraim Spindler , Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka , Alexandre Abbass Hamadeh , Philipp Pirro , Mathias Weiler

A new mechanism of spin structure-driven anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in tilted ferromagnetic metals is proposed by taking account of the d-orbital degree of freedom. We find that a conduction electron acquires a Berry phase due to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-14 Takeshi Tomizawa , Hiroshi Kontani

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

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) is a powerful technique for investigating quantum phases appearing in two-dimensional electron systems. The electrons respond to the piezoelectric field of SAWthrough screening, attenuating its amplitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Xiao Liu , Mengmeng Wu , Renfei Wang , Xinghao Wang , Wenfeng Zhang , Yujiang Dong , Rui-Rui Du , Yang Liu , Xi Lin
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