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We report spin-orbit torques (SOT) in L10-ordered perpendicularly magnetized FePt single layer, which is significantly influenced by disorder. Recently, self-induced SOT in L10-FePt single layer has been investigated, which is ascribed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 S. Q. Zheng , K. K. Meng , Q. B. Liu , J. Miao , X. G. Xu , Y. Jiang

Energy-efficient spintronic devices require a large spin-orbit torque (SOT) and low damping to excite magnetic precession. In conventional devices with heavy-metal/ferromagnet bilayers, reducing the ferromagnet thickness to $\sim$1 nm…

Motivated by recent experiments observing a large antidamping spin-orbit torque (SOT) on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator, we investigate the origin of the current-induced SOT beyond linear-response theory. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Yong-Long Zhou , Hou-Jian Duan , Yong-jia Wu , Ming-Xun Deng , Lan Wang , Dimitrie Culcer , Rui-Qiang Wang

Strong damping-like spin-orbit torque ({\tau}DL) has great potential for enabling ultrafast energy-efficient magnetic memories, oscillators, and logic. So far, the reported {\tau}DL exerted on a thin-film magnet must result from an…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-17 Lijun Zhu , Xiyue S. Zhang , David A. Muller , Daniel C. Ralph , Robert A. Buhrman

Spin-orbit torques (SOTs) have been widely understood as an interfacial transfer of spin that is independent of the bulk properties of the magnetic layer. Here, we report that SOTs acting on ferrimagnetic FexTb1-x layers decrease and vanish…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-04 Lijun Zhu , Daniel C Ralph

Using the linear response formalism for the spin-orbit torque (SOT) we compute from first principles the SOT in a system of two layers of L1$_0$-FePt(001) deposited on an fcc Pt(001) substrate of varying thickness. We find that at room…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Guillaume Géranton , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

We report the observation of the intrinsic damping-like spin-orbit torque (SOT) arising from the Berry curvature in metallic-magnet/CuO$_x$ heterostructures. We show that a robust damping-like SOT, an order of magnitude larger than a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-11 Tenghua Gao , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Hongyu An , Akira Musha , Yuito Kageyama , Ji Shi , Kazuya Ando

We measured the spin-orbit torques (SOTs), current-induced switching, and domain wall (DW) motion in synthetic ferrimagnets consisting of Co/Tb layers with differing stacking order grown on a Pt underlayer. We find that the SOTs, magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-06 Mickey Martini , Can Onur Avci , Silvia Tacchi , Charles-Henri Lambert , Pietro Gambardella

We investigate the origin of spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in archetypical Pt/Co/MgO thin films structures by performing harmonic Hall measurements. The behaviour of the damping like (DL) effective field ($h_{DL}$) with varying the Pt layer…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-12 M. S. Gabor , M. Belmeguenai , I. M. Miron

We present an {\it ab initio}-based theoretical framework which elucidates the origin of the spin-orbit torque (SOT) in Normal-Metal(NM)/Ferromagnet(FM) heterostructures. The SOT is decomposed into two contributions, namely, {\it spin-Hall}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Farzad Mahfouzi , Rahul Mishra , Po-Hao Chang , Hyunsoo Yang , Nicholas Kioussis

Finding efficient ways of manipulating magnetic bits is one of the core goals in spintronic research. Electrically-generated spin-orbit torques (SOTs) are good candidates for this and the search for materials capable of generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Casper F. Schippers , Henk J. M. Swagten , Marcos H. D. Guimarães

An applied electric current through a space-inversion asymmetric magnet induces spin-orbit torques (SOTs) on the magnetic moments, which holds much promise for future memory devices. We discuss general Green's function expressions suitable…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-19 Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

We study spin-orbit torques (SOT) in non-degenerate multiband electron systems in the weak disorder limit. In order to have better physical transparency a semiclassical Boltzmann approach equivalent to the Kubo diagrammatic approach in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Cong Xiao , Qian Niu

The use of electric fields applied across magnetic heterojunctions that lack spatial inversion symmetry has been previously proposed as a non-magnetic mean of controlling localized magnetic moments through spin-orbit torques (SOT). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 María Camarasa-Gómez , Daniel Hernangómez-Pérez , Ferdinand Evers

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) enables efficient current-driven control of magnetization, offering a promising pathway toward low-power spintronic devices. However, the origin and propagation of both damping-like (DL) and field-like (FL) SOTs in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Yuming Bai , Rulin Tian , Yue Zhang , Tao Wang

Spin-orbit torques (SOT) allow the electrical control of magnetic states. Current-induced SOT switching of the perpendicular magnetization is of particular technological importance. The SOT consists of damping-like and field-like torques so…

Current-induced spin torques are of great interest to manipulate the orientation of nanomagnets without applying external magnetic fields. They find direct application in non-volatile data storage and logic devices, and provide insight into…

In order to enhance the magnitude of spin-orbit torque (SOT), considerable experimental works have been devoted to studying the thickness dependence of the different layers in multilayers consisting of heavy metal (HM), ferromagnet (FM) and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Chi Sun , Zhuo Bin Siu , Seng Ghee Tan , Hyunsoo Yang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) in normal metal/ferromagnet (NM/FM) bilayers bears great promise for technological applications, but the microscopic origin of purely interfacial SOTs in ultra-thin systems is not yet fully…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Alessandro Veneri , David T. S. Perkins , Aires Ferreira

Spin-orbit torques (SOTs) have emerged as an efficient means to electrically control the magnetization in ferromagnetic heterostructures. Lately, an increasing attention has been devoted to SOTs in heavy metal (HM)/magnetic insulator (MI)…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-09 Martín Testa-Anta , Charles-Henri Lambert , Can Onur Avci
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