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The Edelstein effect is a promising mechanism for generating spin and orbital polarization from charge currents in systems without inversion symmetry. In ferroelectric materials, such as Germanium Telluride (GeTe), the combination of bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Sergio Leiva-Montecinos , Libor Vojáček , Jing Li , Mairbek Chshiev , Laurent Vila , Ingrid Mertig , Annika Johansson

Converting charge current into spin current is one of the main mechanisms exploited in spintronics. One prominent example is the Edelstein effect, namely the generation of a magnetization in response to an external electric field, which can…

This is an overview of current-induced spin polarization in gyrotropic semiconductor nanostructures. Such a spin polarization as response to a charge current may be classified as the inverse of the spin-galvanic effect, and sometimes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Sergey D. Ganichev , Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

Efficient manipulation of magnetic order with electric current pulses is desirable for achieving fast spintronic devices. The Rashba-Edelstein effect, wherein a spin polarization is electrically induced in noncentrosymmetric systems,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-01 Leandro Salemi , Marco Berritta , Ashis K. Nandy , Peter M. Oppeneer

We investigate spin-to-charge conversion via the Edelstein effect in a 2D Rashba electron gas using the semiclassical Boltzmann approach. We analyze the magnetization arising from the direct Edelstein effect, taking into account an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Irene Gaiardoni , Mattia Trama , Alfonso Maiellaro , Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Romeo , Roberta Citro

In materials with spin-momentum locked spin textures, such as Rashba states and topological surface states, the current-induced shift of the Fermi contour in the k space leads to spin polarization, known as the Edelstein effect, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xing-Guo Ye , Peng-Fei Zhu , Wen-Zheng Xu , Tong-Yang Zhao , Zhi-Min Liao

The Edelstein effect provides the purely electrical generation and control of a homogeneous magnetization in primarily nonmagnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry. Usually, only the spin density response to an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Annika Johansson , Börge Göbel , Jürgen Henk , Manuel Bibes , Ingrid Mertig

In this paper we study the current-induced spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas, known also as the Edelstein effect. Compared to previous treatments, we consider both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 Amin Maleki , Roberto Raimondi , Ka Shen

Rashba effect describes how electrons moving in an electric field experience a momentum dependent magnetic field that couples to the electron angular momentum (spin). This physical phenomenon permits the generation of spin polarization from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Florent Auvray , Jorge Puebla , Mingran Xu , Bivas Rana , Daisuke Hashizume , Yoshichika Otani

We investigate the inverse Edelstein effect in a non-homogeneous system consisting of a ferromagnetic layer coupled to a Rashba two-dimensional electron gas. Within a semiclassical Boltzmann framework, we derive analytical expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Irene Gaiardoni , Mattia Trama , Alfonso Maiellaro , Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Romeo , Roberta Citro

It is well known that a current driven through a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling induces a spin polarization in the perpendicular direction (Edelstein effect). This phenomenon has been extensively studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Giovanni Vignale , I. V. Tokatly

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

In superconductors that lack inversion symmetry, the flow of supercurrent can induce a non-vanishing magnetization, a phenomenon which is at the heart of non-dissipative magneto-electric effects, also known as Edelstein effects. For…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-28 Luca Chirolli , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Giazotto , Mario Cuoco

Superconductors without inversion symmetry can exhibit a non-zero magnetization when a supercurrent is present, leading to non-dissipative magnetoelectric effects. Here, we focus on understanding the relation between the spin and orbital…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-05 Satoshi Ando , Yukio Tanaka , Mario Cuoco , Luca Chirolli , Maria Teresa Mercaldo

We investigate spin- and orbital-to-charge conversion phenomena in nonmagnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry, treating the contributions from the Hall effect and the Rashba-Edelstein effect on an equal footing. We develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Diego Garcia Ovalle , Aurelien Manchon

Understanding the mechanism driving magnetization switching in spin-orbit-torque-assisted devices remains a subject of debate. While originally attributed to the spin Hall effect and spin Rashba-Edelstein effect, recent discoveries related…

Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling gives rise to distinctive surface and interface phenomena, such as spin-momentum locking and spin splitting. In nonequilibrium settings, one of the key manifestations is the (Rashba-)Edelstein effect, where…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-08 Oliver Busch , Franziska Ziolkowski , Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig , Jürgen Henk

The Edelstein effect is the origin of the spin-orbit torque: a current-induced torque that is used for the electrical control of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials. This effect originates from the relativistic spin-orbit…

The Rashba-Edelstein effect stems from the interaction between the electron's spin and its momentum induced by spin-orbit interaction at an interface or a surface. It was shown that the inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect can be used to convert…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 M. B. Jungfleisch , W. Zhang , J. Sklenar , W. Jiang , J. E. Pearson , J. B. Ketterson , A. Hoffmann

Current-induced spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered theoretically in terms of the Matsubara Green functions. This formalism allows to describe temperature dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas , V. K. Dugaev
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