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We consider ballistic transport through a lateral, two-dimensional superlattice with experimentally realizable, sinusoidally oscillating Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction. The periodic structure of the rectangular lattice produces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Viktor Szaszkó-Bogár , F. M. Peeters , Péter Földi

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) created by a spin current injected into a ferromagnet by an adjacent heavy metal represents an efficient tool for the excitation and manipulation of spin waves. Here we report the micromagnetic simulations describing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Andrei I. Nikitchenko , Nikolay A. Pertsev

We derive the Bloch equations for the spin dynamics of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. For the latter we consider both the intrinsic mechanisms of structure inversion asymmetry (Rashba) and bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Cosimo Gorini , Amin Maleki , Ka Shen , Ilya V. Tokatly , Giovanni Vignale , Roberto Raimondi

We develop a theory of designing slit experiments in two-dimensional electron systems with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By simulating the spatiotemporal dynamics of electrons passing through a single slit or a double slit, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Kotaro Shimizu , Masahito Mochizuki

We study the optically induced torques in thin film ferromagnetic layers under excitation by circularly polarized light. We study cases both with and without Rashba spin-orbit coupling using a 4-band model. In the absence of Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Junwen Li , Paul M. Haney

(Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_x$)$_2$Te$_3$ topological insulators (TIs) are gathering increasing attention owing to their large charge-to-spin conversion efficiency and the ensuing spin-orbit torques (SOTs) that can be used to manipulate the…

As a topological Dirac semimetal with controllable spin-orbit coupling and conductivity, PtSe$_2$, a transition-metal dichalcogenide, is a promising material for several applications from optoelectric to sensors. However, its potential for…

Motivated by recent progress in employing two key classes of two-dimensional materials-topological insulators and transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs)-as spin sources for generating spin-orbit torque (SOT), we investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Leyla Majidi , Azadeh Faridi , Reza Asgari

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) induced magnetisation switching in CoFeB/Ta/CoFeB trilayer with two CoFeB layers exhibiting in-plane magnetic anisotropy (IPMA) and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) is investigated. Interlayer exchange…

We suggest a generalization of nonlinear $\sigma$-model for diffusive superconducting systems to account for magnetoelectric effects due to spin-orbit scattering. In the leading orders of spin-orbit strength and gradient expansion it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-02 P. Virtanen , F. S. Bergeret , I. V. Tokatly

Recent experiments on switching antiferromagnetic domains by electric current pulses have attracted a lot of attention to spin-orbit torques in antiferromagnets. In this work, we employ the tight-binding model solver, kwant, to compute…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-11 R. J. Sokolewicz , S. Ghosh , D. Yudin , A. Manchon , M. Titov

Spin-orbit torques (SOTs), which rely on spin current generation from charge current in a nonmagnetic material, promise an energy-efficient scheme for manipulating magnetization in magnetic devices. A critical topic for spintronic devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Yuting Liu , Qiming Shao

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is a crucial ingredient for many potential applications of quantum devices, such as the use of semiconductor nanostructures for quantum computing. It is known that nonlinear conductivities are sensitive to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Kazuki Nakazawa , Henry F. Legg , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Ballistic transport through nanoscale devices with time-dependent Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction (SOI) can lead to spin-polarized wave packets that appear even for completely unpolarized input. The SOI that oscillates in a finite domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 Viktor Szaszko-Bogar , Peter Foldi , F. M. Peeters

We predict that due to spin-orbit(SO) interaction there is a torque even for the parallel configuration of spin valve structure (F1/2DEG/F2). This torque arises due to spin orbit interaction. We develop a scattering theory for spin density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Pareek

Current induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in ferromagnet/non-magnetic metal heterostructures open vast possibilities to design spintronic devices to store, process and transmit information in a simple architecture. It is a central task to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 L. Chen , R. Islinger , J. Stigloher , M. M. Decker , M. Kronseder , D. Schuh , D. Bougeard , D. Weiss , C. H. Back

Current induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in Fe/Pt bilayers have been investigated utilizing the spin-orbit torque ferromagnetic resonance (SOT-FMR) measurement. Characterization of thin films with different thicknesses indicates existence…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Hongshi Li , Mahdi Jamali , Delin Zhang , Xuan Li , Jian-Ping Wang

Magnetization switching by current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) is of great interest due to its potential applications for ultralow-power memory and logic devices. In order to be of technological interest, SOT effects need to switch…

The InSb/CdTe heterojunction structure, characterized by low effective mass and high electron mobility, exhibits interfacial energy band bending, leading to the Rashba spin-orbit coupling effect and nonreciprocal transport, which makes its…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Xiaoxiao Ma , Zhenghang Zhi , Weijie Deng , Tianxin Li , Qianchun Weng , Xufeng Kou , Wei Lu

The ability of spin-orbit interactions to convert charge current into spin current, most often in the bulk of heavy metal thin films, has been the hallmark of spintronics in the last decade. In this study, we demonstrate how the insertion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 S. Krishnia , Y. Sassi , F. Ajejas , N. Reyren , S. Collin , A. Fert , J. -M. George , V. Cros , H. Jaffres