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Spin-charge interconversion in systems with spin-orbit coupling has provided a new route for the generation and detection of spin currents in functional devices for memory and logic such as spin-orbit torque switching in magnetic memories…

Current-induced torques originating from earth-abundant 3d elements offer a promising avenue for low-cost and sustainable spintronic memory and logic applications. Recently, orbital currents -- transverse orbital angular momentum flow in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-03 Silvia Damerio , Can O. Avci

The magnetization manipulation by spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in nonmagnetic-metal (NM)/ferromagnet (FM) heterostructures has provided great opportunities for spin devices. Besides the conventional spin Hall effect (SHE) in heavy metals with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Zishuang Li , Wenqiang Wang , Kaiyuan Zhou , Xiang Zhan , Tiejun Zhou , Ronghua Liu

Orbitronics, which leverages the angular momentum of atomic orbitals for information transmission, provides a novel strategy to overcome the limitations of electronic devices. Unlike electron spin, orbital angular momentum (OAM) is strongly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Shilei Ji , Jianping Yang , Li Gao , Xing'ao Li

The anomalous Hall effect is mainly used to probe the magnetization orientation in ferromagnetic materials. A less explored aspect is the torque acting back on magnetization, an effect that can be important at high currents. The spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Ioan Tudosa

Electrical readout of 180$^\circ$ switching in strictly compensated collinear antiferromagnets remains a major challenge in antiferromagnetic spintronics. Electrical writing of perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnets by out-of-plane orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Hui Wang , Huiying Liu , Yanfeng Ge , Xukun Feng , Jiaojiao Zhu , Jin Cao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Lay Kee Ang

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

Magnetic topological quantum materials are attracting considerable attention owing to their potential technological applications. However, only a small number of these materials have been experimentally realized, thereby giving rise to the…

The Spin Hall Effect (SHE) is a promising way for transforming charge currents into spin currents in spintronic devices. Large values of the Spin Hall Angle, the characteristic parameter of the yield of this transformation, have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Albert Fert , Peter M Levy

We investigate the spin Hall effect in ballistic chaotic quantum dots with spin-orbit coupling. We show that a longitudinal charge current can generate a pure transverse spin current. While this transverse spin current is generically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Bardarson , I. Adagideli , Ph. Jacquod

Modern spintronics relies on the generation of spin currents through spin-orbit coupling. The spin-current generation has been believed to be triggered by current-induced orbital dynamics, which governs the angular momentum transfer from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Hiroki Hayashi , Daegeun Jo , Dongwook Go , Tenghua Gao , Satoshi Haku , Yuriy Mokrousov , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kazuya Ando

In the recent years it has been possible to achieve diode-like, non-reciprocal current-voltage response in Josephson junctions, despite the intrinsic symmetry of the Josephson effect itself. This is typically achieved by incorporating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-19 Debashree Nayak , Dimple Rani , Prasanjit Samal , Kartik Senapati

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

The spin-to-charge current interconversion in bilayers composed of ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic layers with strong spin-orbit coupling has garnered considerable attention due to its exceptional potential in advancing spintronics devices…

Efficient and versatile spin-to-charge current conversion is crucial for the development of spintronic applications, which strongly rely on the ability to electrically generate and detect spin currents. In this context, the spin Hall effect…

We predict that unpolarized charge current driven through the longitudinal leads attached to ballistic quantum-coherent two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in semiconductor heterostructure will induce a {\em pure} spin current, which is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo , Satofumi Souma

Reversible spin Hall effect comprising the "direct" and "inverse" spin Hall effects was successfully detected at room temperature. This experimental demonstration proves the fundamental relations called Onsager reciprocal relations between…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Kimura , Y. Otani , T. Sato , S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

We study theoretically the electronic states in a $5d$ transition metal oxide Na$_2$IrO$_3$, in which both the spin-orbit interaction and the electron correlation play crucial roles. Tight-binding model analysis together with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-06-25 Atsuo Shitade , Hosho Katsura , Jan Kunes , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

Hirsch (1999) proposed a mechanism and geometry for the observation of the spin-Hall effect. In this work, we present a novel realization of the Hirsch geometry in a platinum (Pt) nanostructure, which is an increasingly important material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-02 Koong Chee Weng , N. Chandrasekhar , Christian Miniatura , Berthold-Georg Englert

Recent experiments demonstrate that antiferromagnets exhibit the spin Hall effect. We study a tight-binding model of an antiferromagnet on a square lattice with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and disorder. By exact diagonalization of a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Sverre A. Gulbrandsen , Camilla Espedal , Arne Brataas