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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,…

Orbital Hall effect was recently discovered as a novel pathway for driving magnetic moment. However, the integration of orbital Hall effect in magnetic memories suffers from low orbital-to-spin conversion efficiency and incompatibility with…

The generation of large spin currents, and the associated spin torques, which are at the heart of modern spintronics, have long been achieved by charge-to-spin conversion mechanisms, i.e. the spin Hall effect and/or the Rashba effect,…

Recently orbital Hall current has attracted attention as an alternative method to switch the magnetization of ferromagnets. Here we present our findings on electrical switching of antiferromagnetic state in Mn3Sn/Cr, where despite the much…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-20 Hang Xie , Nan Zhang , Yuteng Ma , Xin Chen , Lin Ke , Yihong Wu

Efficient generation of spin-orbit torques (SOTs) is central for the exciting field of spin-orbitronics. Platinum, the archetypal spin Hall material, has the potential to be an outstanding provider for spin-orbit torques due to its giant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Lijun Zhu , Daniel C. Ralph , Robert A Buhrman

The spin Hall effect (SHE) generates spin currents within nonmagnetic materials. Previously, studies of the SHE have been motivated primarily to understand its fundamental origin and magnitude. Here we demonstrate, using measurement and…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 Luqiao Liu , O. J. Lee , T. J. Gudmundsen , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Spin current--a flow of electron spins without a charge current--is an ideal information carrier free from Joule heating for electronic devices. The celebrated spin Hall effect, which arises from the relativistic spin-orbit coupling,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 Makoto Naka , Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose , Yuki Yanagi , Yukitoshi Motome , Hitoshi Seo

Electrical manipulation of magnetization by spin-orbit torque (SOT) has shown promise for realizing reliable magnetic memories and oscillators. To date, the generation of transverse spin current and SOT, whether it is of spin Hall effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-20 Yong-Chang Lau , Hwachol Lee , Kohji Nakamura , Masamitsu Hayashi

Spin-orbit torques enable energy-efficient manipulation of magnetization by electric current and hold promise for applications ranging from nonvolatile memory to neuromorphic computing. Here we report the discovery of a giant spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Eric Arturo Montoya , Xinyao Pei , Ilya N. Krivorotov

A theoretical framework is proposed for the spin-current driven synchronized self-oscillations in ferromagnets in the spin Hall geometry. The spin current generated by the spin Hall effect in a bottom nonmagnetic heavy metal excites a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Tomohiro Taniguchi

It has been shown that the spin Hall effect from heavy transition metals can generate sufficient spin-orbit torque and further produce current-induced magnetization switching in the adjacent ferromagnetic layer. However, if the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Yan-Ting Liu , Tian-Yue Chen , Tzu-Hsiang Lo , Tsung-Yu Tsai , Shan-Yi Yang , Yao-Jen Chang , Jeng-Hua Wei , Chi-Feng Pai

The orbital Hall effect (OHE) in light transition metals offers a promising route to generate orbital torques for efficient magnetization control, providing an alternative to conventional spin Hall effect approaches that rely on heavy…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Gaurav K. Shukla , Yoshio Miura , Mayank K. Singh , Shinji Isogami

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

We show experimentally that the spin direction of the spin current generated by spin-orbit interactions within a ferromagnetic layer can be reoriented by turning the magnetization direction of this layer. We do this by measuring the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-27 Jonathan D. Gibbons , David MacNeill , Robert A. Buhrman , Daniel C. Ralph

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

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

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 develop a theoretical formula of spin Hall torque in the presence of two ferromagnets. While the direction of the conventional spin Hall torque always points to the in-plane direction, the present system enables to manipulate the torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Seiji Mitani , Masamitsu Hayashi

The generation, manipulation and detection of spin-polarized electrons in nanostructures define the main challenges of spin-based electronics[1]. Amongst the different approaches for spin generation and manipulation, spin-orbit coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergio O. Valenzuela , M. Tinkham

Efficient generation of spin currents from charge currents is of high importance for memory and logic applications of spintronics. In particular, generation of spin currents from charge currents in high spin-orbit coupling metals has the…