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Spin-orbitronic devices can integrate memory and logic by exploiting spin-charge interconversion (SCI), which is optimized by design and materials selection. In these devices, such as the magnetoelectric spin-orbit (MESO) logic, interfaces…

Spin injection is a powerful experimental probe into a wealth of nonequilibrium spin-dependent phenomena displayed by materials with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we develop a theory of coupled spin-charge diffusive transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Yu-Hsuan Lin , Chunli Huang , Manuel Offidani , Aires Ferreira , Miguel A. Cazalilla

Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin under applied current, and control magnetization dynamics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 A. Manchon , J. Zelezný , I. M. Miron , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Thiaville , K. Garello , P. Gambardella

Within the field of spintronics major efforts are directed towards developing applications for spin-based transport devices made fully out of two-dimensional (2D) materials. In this work we present an experimental realization of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Alexey A. Kaverzin , Talieh S. Ghiasi , Avalon H. Dismukes , Xavier Roy , Bart J. van Wees

We point out the existence of finite charge and spin Hall conductivities of graphene in the presence of a spin orbit interaction (SOI) and localized magnetic impurities. The SOI in graphene results in different transverse forces on the two…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Kai-He Ding , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

Pristine graphene is potentially an ideal medium to transport spin information. Proximity effects, where a neighbouring material is used to alter the properties of a material in adjacent (or proximitized) regions, can also be used in…

Long-distance spin transport through anti-ferromagnetic insulators (AFMIs) is a long-standing goal of spintronics research. Unlike conventional spintronics systems, monolayer graphene in quantum Hall regime (QH) offers an unprecedented…

The integration of the spin degree of freedom in charge-based electronic devices has revolutionised both sensing and memory capability in microelectronics. Further development in spintronic devices requires electrical manipulation of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Wenjing Yan , Oihana Txoperena , Roger Llopis , Hanan Dery , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

A variational technique is used to study sublattice symmetry breaking by strong on-site and nearest neighbor interactions in graphene. When interactions are strong enough to break sublattice symmetry, and with relative strengths…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-12 Y. Araki , G. W. Semenoff

Graphene has remarkable opportunities for spintronics due to its high mobility and long spin diffusion length, especially when encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Here, for the first time, we demonstrate gate-tunable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jinsong Xu , Simranjeet Singh , Jyoti Katoch , Guanzhong Wu , Tiancong Zhu , Igor Zutic , Roland K. Kawakami

The proximity effect opens ways to transfer properties from one material into another and is especially important in two-dimensional materials. In van der Waals heterostructures, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) can be used to enhance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Franz Herling , C. K. Safeer , Josep Ingla-Aynés , Nerea Ontoso , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

The manipulation of the electron spin degree of freedom is at the core of the spintronics paradigm, which offers the perspective of reduced power consumption, enabled by the decoupling of information processing from net charge transfer.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Paolo Michetti , Patrik Recher , Giuseppe Iannaccone

The understanding of the fundamentals of spin and charge densities and currents interconversion by spin-orbit coupling can enable efficient applications beyond the possibilities offered by conventional electronics. For this purpose we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Amin Maleki Sheikhabadi , Iryna Miatka , E. Ya. Sherman , Roberto Raimondi

The spin-orbit interaction couples the electrons' motion to their spin. Accordingly, passing a current in a material with strong spin-orbit coupling generates a transverse spin current (spin Hall effect, SHE) and vice-versa (inverse spin…

The broken inversion symmetry at the ferromagnet (FM)/heavy-metal (HM) interface leads to spin-dependent degeneracy of the energy band, forming spin-polarized surface states. As a result, the interface serves as an effective medium for…

The interplay between spin and charge degrees of freedom in low-dimensional systems is a cornerstone of modern spintronics, where achieving all-electrical control of spin currents is a major goal. Spin-orbit interactions provide a promising…

We show that the spin-current response of a semiconductor crystal to an external electric field is considerably more complex than previously assumed. While in systems of high symmetry only the spin-Hall components are allowed, in systems of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dimitrie Culcer , R. Winkler

We provide a theoretical description of diffusive charge and spin transport in hybrid devices containing altermagnets. Based on recently derived drift--diffusion equations for coupled charge and spin dynamics and general boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nicolás Sigales , Tim Kokkeler , Gonzalo de Polsi , Sebastian Bergeret

We report a comprehensive study on the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity (SHC) of semimetals MoTe2 and WTe2 by ab initio calculation. Large SHC and desirable spin Hall angles have been discovered, due to the strong spin orbit coupling effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-06 Jiaqi Zhou , Junfeng Qiao , Arnaud Bournel , Weisheng Zhao

Nonlocal spin polarization phenomena are thoroughly investigated in the devices made of chiral metallic single crystals of CrNb$_3$S$_6$ and NbSi$_2$ as well as of polycrystalline NbSi$_2$. We demonstrate that simultaneous injection of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-09 Hiroaki Shishido , Yuta Hosaka , Kenta Monden , Akito Inui , Taisei Sayo , Yusuke Kousaka , Yoshihiko Togawa