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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

The linear Edelstein effect is a cornerstone phenomenon in spintronics that describes the generation of spin magnetization in response to an applied electric field. Recent theoretical advances have reignited interest in its nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Jinxiong Jia , Longjun Xiang , Zhenhua Qiao , Jian Wang

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

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 Edelstein effect in magnetic systems enables magnetization switching via the coupling between current-induced spin accumulation and intrinsic magnetic order, and is therefore highly promising for next-generation spintronic devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Weiyi Pan , Jaroslav Fabian

The spin Edelstein effect has proven to be a promising phenomenon to generate spin polarization from a charge current in systems without inversion symmetry. In recent years, a current-induced orbital magnetization, called orbital Edelstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Sergio Leiva M. , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig , Annika Johansson

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

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…

The Edelstein effect, which enables charge-to-spin conversion and is therefore highly promising for future spintronic devices, can be realized and non-volatilely manipulated in ferroelectric materials owing to their broken inversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-26 Weiyi Pan , Jaroslav Fabian

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 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

Coupling between charge and spin, and magnetoelectric effects more generally, have been an area of great interest for several years, with the sought-after ability to control magnetic degrees of freedom via charge currents serving as an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-21 Geremia Massarelli , Bryce Wu , Arun Paramekanti

Nonlinear spintronics combines nonlinear dynamics with spintronics, opening up new possibilities beyond linear responses. A recent theoretical work [Xiao et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 166302 (2023)] predicts the nonlinear generation of spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-30 Insu Baek , Seungyun Han , Suik Cheon , Hyun-Woo Lee

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 report the synergy between orbital and spin-orbit torques in WTe2/Fe3GeTe2 heterostructures characterized by a Berry curvature dipole. By applying a current along the a axis in WTe2, we detect an out-of-plane magnetization in the system,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Dong Li , Xing-Yu Liu , Xing-Guo Ye , Zhen-Cun Pan , Wen-Zheng Xu , Peng-Fei Zhu , An-Qi Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Zhi-Min Liao

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

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

In recent years, counterparts of phenomena studied in spintronics have been actively explored in the orbital sector. The relationship between orbital degrees of freedom and crystal chirality has also been intensively investigated, although…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Kazuki Nakazawa , Terufumi Yamaguchi , Ai Yamakage

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

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
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