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Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) is regarded as a promising mechanism for driving neuromorphic behavior in spin-orbitronic devices. In principle, the strong SOT in heavy metal-based magnetic heterostructure is attributed to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Tian-Yue Chen , Yu-Chan Hsiao , Wei-Bang Liao , Chi-Feng Pai

The interplay of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and magnetism gives rise to a plethora of charge-to-spin conversion phenomena that harbor great potential for spintronics applications. In addition to the spin Hall effect, magnets may exhibit a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Alexander Mook , Robin R. Neumann , Annika Johansson , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

The spin Hall (SH) effect, the conversion of the electric current to the spin current along the transverse direction, relies on the relativistic spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we develop a microscopic theory on the mechanisms of the SH…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-21 Satoshi Okamoto , Naoto Nagaosa

We show experimentally that the spin direction of the spin current generated by spin-orbit interactions within a ferromagnetic layer can be reoriented by turning the magnetization direction of this layer. We do this by measuring the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-27 Jonathan D. Gibbons , David MacNeill , Robert A. Buhrman , Daniel C. Ralph

In transition metals and their compounds, the orbital degrees of freedom gives rise to an orbital current, in addition to the ordinary spin and charge currents. We reveal that considerably large spin and anomalous Hall effects (SHE and AHE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kontani , T. Tanaka , D. S. Hirashima , K. Yamada , J. Inoue

Controlling/storing information carriers, such as electron charge and spin, is key for modern information society, and significant efforts have been paid made to establish novel technologies at the nanoscale. The rise of Si-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-24 R. Matsumoto , R. Ohshima , M. Funato , Y. Ando , Y. Mokrousov , D. Go , M. Shiraishi

We study the spin-orbital interaction and the spin Hall effect(SHE) of an electron moving on a noncommutative space under the influence of a vector potential A. On a noncommutative space we find that the commutator between the vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-23 Kai Ma , Sayipjamal Dulat

State-of-the-art developments in magnetic devices rely on manufacturing faster, more efficient memory elements. A significant development in this direction has been the discovery of orbital torques, which employ the orbital angular momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 James H. Cullen , Zhanning Wang , Dimitrie Culcer

Deterministic current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) switching of magnetization in a heavy transition metal/ferromagnetic metal/oxide magnetic heterostructure with the ferromagnetic layer being perpendicularly-magnetized typically requires…

In this paper we propose the quantized spin Hall effect (SHE) in the vortex state of a rotating p-wave paired Fermi system in an inhomogeneous magnetic field and in a weak periodic potential. It is the three dimensional extension of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Jun Goryo , Mahito Kohmoto , Yong-Shi Wu

The spin Hall effect (SHE) is normally discussed in terms of a spin current, which is ill-defined in strongly spin-orbit-coupled systems because of spin non-conservation. In this work we propose an alternative view of SHE phenomena by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Hua Chen , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

Spin Hall effect (SHE), a fundamental transport phenomenon with non-zero spin current but vanishing charge current, has important applications in spintronics for the electrical control of spins. Owing to the half-spin nature of electrons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Junpeng Hou , Ying Su , Chuanwei Zhang

We report systematic measurements of anomalous Hall effect(AHE) and spin orbit torques(SOT) in MnGa/IrMn films,, in which a single MnGa epitaxial layer reveals obvious orbital two-channel Kondo (2CK) effect. As increasing the thickness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 K. K. Meng , J. Miao , X. G. Xu , Y. Wu , X. P. Zhao , J. H. Zhao , Y. Jiang

The magnetization manipulation by spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in nonmagnetic-metal (NM)/ferromagnet (FM) heterostructures has provided great opportunities for spin devices. Besides the conventional spin Hall effect (SHE) in heavy metals with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Zishuang Li , Wenqiang Wang , Kaiyuan Zhou , Xiang Zhan , Tiejun Zhou , Ronghua Liu

The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon that an electric field induces a spin Hall current. In this Letter, we examine the inverse effect that, in a ferromagnetic conductor, a charge Hall current is induced by a spin motive force, or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno

The spin Hall effect (SHE) is an important spintronics phenomenon, which allows transforming a charge current into a spin current and vice versa without the use of magnetic materials or magnetic fields. To gain new insight into the physics…

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…

In ferromagnetic metals, the interconversion of spin and charge currents via the spin Hall effect and its inverse can depend on the angle between the ferromagnets magnetization and the spin current polarization direction. Here, such a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-27 Joel Cramer , Andrew Ross , Samridh Jaiswal , Lorenzo Baldrati , Romain Lebrun , Mathias Kläui

The Spin Hall Effect (SHE) is a promising way for transforming charge currents into spin currents in spintronic devices. Large values of the Spin Hall Angle, the characteristic parameter of the yield of this transformation, have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Albert Fert , Peter M Levy

We investigate the orbit-to-charge conversion in YIG/Pt/nonmagnetic material (NM) trilayer heterostructures. With the additional Ru layer on the top of YIG/Pt stacks, the charge current signal increases nearly an order of magnitude in both…