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There has been considerable interest in spin-orbit torques for the purpose of manipulating the magnetization of ferromagnetic (FM) films or nano-elements for spintronic technologies. Spin-orbit torques are derived from spin currents created…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-02 Weifeng Zhang , Wei Han , See-hun Yang , Yan Sun , Yang Zhang , Binghai Yan , Stuart S. P. Parkin

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

The spin Hall effect (SHE), in which electrical current generates transverse spin current, plays an important role in spintronics for the generation and manipulation of spin-polarized electrons. The phenomenon originates from spin-orbit…

We systematically measure and analyze the spin diffusion length and the spin Hall effect in Pt with a wide range of conductivities using the spin absorption method in lateral spin valve devices. We observe a linear relation between the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Edurne Sagasta , Yasutomo Omori , Miren Isasa , Martin Gradhand , Luis E. Hueso , Yasuhiro Niimi , YoshiChika Otani , Fèlix Casanova

We predict a specific type of charge Hall effect in undoped ferromagnetic graphene that is generated by the spin Hall mechanism in the absence of an external magnetic field. The essential feature is the so-called spin chiral configuration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Babak Zare Rameshti , Malek Zareyan

The spin Hall effect and its inverse effect, caused by the spin orbit interaction, provide the interconversion between spin current and charge current. Since the effects make it possible to generate and manipulate spin current electrically,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-11 Lingjun Zhou , Vahram L. Grigoryan , Sadamichi Maekawa , Xuhui Wang , Jiang Xiao

We predict the coexistence of tunneling spin and valley Hall effects when electrons in graphene coherently transmit through a barrier with the broken inversion symmetry and proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling. Due to the rotation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 W. Zeng

While the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect and antiferromagnetic order constitute two of the most promising phenomena for embedding basic spintronic concepts into future technologies, almost all of the QSH insulators known to date are…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-22 C. Niu , J. -P. Hanke , P. M. Buhl , G. Bihlmayer , D. Wortmann , S. Blügel , Y. Mokrousov

In spin-based electronics, information is encoded by the spin state of electron bunches. Processing this information requires the controlled transport of spin angular momentum through a solid, preferably at frequencies reaching the so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 T. Kampfrath , M. Battiato , P. Maldonado , G. Eilers , J. Nötzold , I. Radu , F. Freimuth , Y. Mokrousov , S. Blügel , M. Wolf , P. M. Oppeneer , M. Münzenberg

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

Robust spin Hall effects (SHE) have recently been observed in non-magnetic heavy metal systems with strong spin-orbit interactions. These SHE are either attributed to an intrinsic band-structure effect or to extrinsic spin-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-05 Yongxi Ou , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Quantum spin-Hall effect, a manifestation of topological properties that govern the behavior of surface states, was studied intensively in condensed matter physics resulting in the discovery of topological insulators. The quantum spin-Hall…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-14 Peng Shi , Luping Du , Congcong Li , Anatoly V. Zayats , Xiaocong Yuan

A normal metallic film sandwiched between two insulators may have strong spin-orbit coupling near the metal-insulator interfaces, even if spin-orbit coupling is negligible in the bulk of the film. In this paper we study two technologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 J. Borge , C. Gorini , G. Vignale , R. Raimondi

Band topology and related spin (or pseudo-spin) physics of photons provide us with a new dimension for manipulating light, which is potentially useful for information communication and data storage. Especially, the quantum spin Hall effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-03 Biye Xie , Guangxu Su , Hong-Fei Wang , Feng Liu , Lumang Hu , Si-Yuan Yu , Peng Zhan , Ming-Hui Lu , Zhenlin Wang , Yan-Feng Chen

We demonstrate the formation of orbital and spin Hall effects (OHE/SHE) in the 1T phase of non-magnetic transition metal dichalcogenides. With the aid of density functional theory calculations and model Hamiltonian studies on MX$_2$ (M =…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Pratik Sahu , Jatin Kumar Bidika , Bubunu Biswal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

We propose and analyze a mechanism for inducing spin Hall currents in ordinary (1H phase) monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) due to the nonlinear process of optical rectification. The photo-induced spin current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Alireza Taghizadeh , T. G. Pedersen

We derive the effective action for a moving magnetic-field-induced spin-density wave (FISDW) in quasi-one-dimensional conductors at zero and nonzero temperatures by taking the functional integral over the electron field. The effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor M. Yakovenko , Hsi-Sheng Goan

The spin Hall effect in nonmagnetic materials has been intensively studied and became one of the most crucial spin-charge conversion mechanism in spintronics. However, the spin Hall effect in ferromagnetic metals has been less investigated…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-08 Fanxing Zheng , Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Meng Zhu , Ye Zhou , Jia Zhang

The synchronized magnetization dynamics in ferromagnets on a nonmagnetic heavy metal caused by the spin Hall effect is investigated theoretically. The direct and inverse spin Hall effects near the ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic interface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Tomohiro Taniguchi

The spin Hall effect in a finite ballistic two-dimensional system with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction is studied numerically. We find that the spin Hall conductance is very sensitive to the transverse measuring location, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang