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Spin Hall effect (SHE) and voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) are two promising methods for low-power electrical manipulation of magnetization. Recently, magnetic field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization through SHE…

The use of electric fields applied across magnetic heterojunctions that lack spatial inversion symmetry has been previously proposed as a non-magnetic mean of controlling localized magnetic moments through spin-orbit torques (SOT). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 María Camarasa-Gómez , Daniel Hernangómez-Pérez , Ferdinand Evers

In this work we propose a novel solid-state platform for creating quantum simulators based on implanted spin centers in semiconductors. We show that under the presence of an external magnetic field, an array of $S=1$ spin centers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-02 Troy Losey , Denis R. Candido , Jin Zhang , Y. Meurice , M. E. Flatté , S. -W. Tsai

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) enables efficient current-driven control of magnetization, offering a promising pathway toward low-power spintronic devices. However, the origin and propagation of both damping-like (DL) and field-like (FL) SOTs in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Yuming Bai , Rulin Tian , Yue Zhang , Tao Wang

We demonstrate current-induced bipolar switching in in-plane magnetized spin-valve devices that incorporate a perpendicularly magnetized spin polarizing layer. Further, hysteretic transitions into a state with intermediate resistance occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Li Ye , Georg Wolf , Daniele Pinna , Gabriel D. Chaves , Andrew D. Kent

Single-electron spin qubits employ magnetic fields on the order of 1 Tesla or above to enable quantum state readout via spin-dependent-tunnelling. This requires demanding microwave engineering for coherent spin resonance control and…

Spin-orbit torque provides an efficient pathway to manipulate the magnetic state and magnetization dynamics of magnetic materials, which is crucial for energy-efficient operation of a variety of spintronic devices such as magnetic memory,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Hang Xie , Xin Chen , Ziyan Luo , Yihong Wu

Exploiting spin degree of freedom of electron a new proposal is given to characterize spin-based logical operations using a quantum interferometer that can be utilized as a programmable spin logic device (PSLD). The ON and OFF states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Moumita Patra , Santanu K. Maiti

Processing-in-memory (PIM) seeks to eliminate computation/memory data transfer using devices that support both storage and logic. Stateful logic techniques such as IMPLY, MAGIC and FELIX can perform logic gates within memristive crossbar…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Orian Leitersdorf , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

Previous studies have demonstrated spin-orbit torque (SOT) switching of Mn3Sn where the spin polarization lies in the kagome plane (configuration I). However, the critical current density ($ J_{crit}$) is unrealistically large ($…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Zhengde Xu , Xue Zhang , Yixiao Qiao , Gengchiau Liang , Shuyuan Shi , Zhifeng Zhu

Reducing energy dissipation while increasing speed in computation and memory is a long-standing challenge for spintronics research. In the last 20 years, femtosecond lasers have emerged as a tool to control the magnetization in specific…

Spin-orbit torques offer a promising mechanism for electrically controlling magnetization dynamics in nanoscale heterostructures. While spin-orbit torques occur predominately at interfaces, the physical mechanisms underlying these torques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Vivek P. Amin , Paul M. Haney , Mark D. Stiles

The ever-increasing amount of data from ubiquitous smart devices fosters data-centric and cognitive algorithms. Traditional digital computer systems have separate logic and memory units, resulting in a huge delay and energy cost for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Qiming Shao , Zhongrui Wang , Yan Zhou , Shunsuke Fukami , Damien Querlioz , Leon O. Chua

Three-terminal magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), where non-volatile magnetization state can be switched via spin orbit torque (SOT), is attracting massive research interests since it is featured by high speed, low power, nearly unlimited…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Hongjie Ye , Zhaohao Wang

We demonstrate for the first time full-scale integration of top-pinned perpendicular MTJ on 300 mm wafer using CMOS-compatible processes for spin-orbit torque (SOT)-MRAM architectures. We show that 62 nm devices with a W-based SOT…

Current-induced spin torques are of great interest to manipulate the orientation of nanomagnets without applying external magnetic fields. They find direct application in non-volatile data storage and logic devices, and provide insight into…

The functionality of logic and memory elements in current electronics is based on multi-stability, driven either by manipulating local concentrations of electrons in transistors, or by switching between equivalent states of a material with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 I. Vaskivskyi , I. A. Mihailovic , S. Brazovskii , J. Gospodaric , T. Mertelj , D. Svetin , P. Sutar , D. Mihailovic

We have studied the spin orbit torque (SOT) in Pt/Co/Ir multilayers with 3 repeats of the unit structure. As the system exhibits oscillatory interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) with varying Ir layer thickness, we compare the SOT of films…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Yuto Ishikuro , Masashi Kawaguchi , Tomohiro Taniguchi , Masamitsu Hayashi

We show that current induced magneto-logic gates like AND, OR and NOT can be designed with the simple architecture involving a single nano spin-valve pillar, as an extension of our recent work on spin-torque-driven magneto-logic universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 C. Sanid , S. Murugesh

Impact of spin transfer torque (STT) on the write error rate of a voltage-torque-based magnetoresistive random access memory is theoretically analyzed by using the macrospin model. During the voltage pulse the STT assists or suppresses the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-04 Hiroshi Imamura , Rie Matsumoto