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Spin Hall effect and its inverse provide essential means to convert charge to spin currents and vice versa, which serve as a primary function for spintronic phenomena such as the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance and the spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Yasuhiro Niimi , YoshiChika Otani

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are promising materials for spintronics due to their robust spin-valley locked valence states, enabling efficient charge-to-spin conversion via valley Hall effect with non-equilibrium spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 D. J. P. de Sousa , M. J. Sammon , Raseong Kim , Hai Li , Ian A. Young , Tony Low

A twisted honeycomb bilayer exhibits a moir\'e superstructure that is composed of a hexagonal arrangement of AB and BA stacked domains separated by domain boundaries. In the case of twisted bilayer graphene, the application of an electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Harold J. W. Zandvliet , Pantelis Bampoulis , Cristiane Morais Smith , Lumen Eek

We study valley-dependent spin transport theoretically in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides in which a variety of spin and valley physics are expected because of spin-valley coupling. The results show that the spins are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Yuya Ominato , Junji Fujimoto , Mamoru Matsuo

Spin Hall effects are a collection of relativistic spin-orbit coupling phenomena in which electrical currents can generate transverse spin currents and vice versa. Although first observed only a decade ago, these effects are already…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-13 Jairo Sinova , Sergio O. Valenzuela , J. Wunderlich , C. H. Back , T. Jungwirth

A promising approach to attain long-distance coherent spin propagation is accessing topological spin-polarized edge states in graphene. Achieving this without external magnetic fields necessitates engineering graphene band structure,…

We show that pure spin injection from a magnetic electrode into an inversion symmetry-broken system composed of a tunnel barrier and a metallic region generates a transverse charge current. Such a tunnelling spin galvanic conversion is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Geneviève Fleury , Michael Barth , Cosimo Gorini

Motivated by the successful idea of using weakly-coupled quantum electronic wires to realize the quantum Hall effects and the quantum spin Hall effects, we theoretically construct two systems composed of weakly-coupled quantum spin chains,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Daniel Hill , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Here we suggest a novel hybrid spin noise spectroscopy technique, which is sensitive to the spin Hall effect. It is shown that, while the standard spin-spin correlation function is not sensitive to the spin Hall effect, spin-transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-24 V. A. Slipko , N. A. Sinitsyn , Y. V. Pershin

The energy spectra of transition metal dichalcogenides are primarily influenced by the and orbitals. This results in a three-band model characterized by strong spin-orbit interaction. Investigating these bands using a projection into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Phusit Nualpijit , Kitakorn Jatiyanon , Bumned Soodchomshom

We develop the theory of the spin and valley Hall effects in two-dimensional systems caused by asymmetric -- skew -- scattering of the quasiparticles. The collision integral is derived in the third order in the particle-particle interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 M. M. Glazov , L. E. Golub

We study the effects of spin orbit interactions on the low energy electronic structure of a single plane of graphene. We find that in an experimentally accessible low temperature regime the symmetry allowed spin orbit potential converts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

Scattering immune propagation of light in topological photonic systems may revolutionarize the design of integrated photonic circuits for information processing and communications. In optics, various photonic topological circuits have been…

Using mapping between topological defects in an easy-plane magnet and electrical charges, we study interplay between vorticity and spin currents. We demonstrate that the flow of vorticity is accompanied by the transverse spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Edward Schwartz , Hamed Vakili , Moaz Ali , Alexey A. Kovalev

In transition-metal dichalcogenides, electrons in the K-valleys can experience both Ising and Rashba spin-orbit couplings. In this work, we show that the coexistence of Ising and Rashba spin-orbit couplings leads to a special type of valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Benjamin T. Zhou , Katsuhisa Taguchi , Yuki Kawaguchi , Yukio Tanaka , K. T. Law

We describe an angularly asymmetric interface-scattering mechanism which allows to spatially separate the electrons in the two low-energy valleys of bilayer graphene. The effect occurs at electrostatically defined interfaces separating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-05 Henning Schomerus

Monolayer staggered materials of the graphene family present intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and can be driven through several topological phase transitions using external circularly polarized lasers, and static electric or magnetic fields.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-25 P. Ledwith , W. J. M. Kort-Kamp , D. A. R. Dalvit

We study electron transport in monolayer molybdenum disulfide MoS$_2$ subjected to a magnetic barrier. Our analysis employs a full-band continuum model to capture the relevant physical phenomena. We focus on how electron energy, magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Ahmed Jellal , Nadia Benlakhouy , Pablo Díaz , David Laroze

Spintronics has emerged as a promising field for next-generation devices, offering functionalities beyond complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS). A critical challenge in spintronics is to develop systems that can efficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Zhendong Chi , Eoin Dolan , Haozhe Yang , Beatriz Martín-García , Marco Gobbi , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

We investigate the electronic dispersion and transport properties of graphene/WSe$_{2}$ heterostructures in the presence of a proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling $\lambda_{v}$, sublattice potential $\Delta$, and an off-resonant circularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 M. Zubair , P. Vasilopoulos , M. Tahir