scholarly journals The spin Hall effect of Bi-Sb alloys driven by thermally excited Dirac-like electrons

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. eaay2324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhendong Chi ◽  
Yong-Chang Lau ◽  
Xiandong Xu ◽  
Tadakatsu Ohkubo ◽  
Kazuhiro Hono ◽  
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We have studied the charge to spin conversion in Bi1−xSbx/CoFeB heterostructures. The spin Hall conductivity (SHC) of the sputter-deposited heterostructures exhibits a high plateau at Bi-rich compositions, corresponding to the topological insulator phase, followed by a decrease of SHC for Sb-richer alloys, in agreement with the calculated intrinsic spin Hall effect of Bi1−xSbx. The SHC increases with increasing Bi1−xSbx thickness before it saturates, indicating that it is the bulk of the alloy that predominantly contributes to the generation of spin current; the topological surface states, if present, play little role. Unexpectedly, the SHC is found to increase with increasing temperature, following the trend of carrier density. These results suggest that the large SHC at room temperature, with a spin Hall efficiency exceeding 1 and an extremely large spin current mobility, is due to increased number of thermally excited Dirac-like electrons in the L valley of the narrow gap Bi1−xSbx alloy.

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
X. R. Wang

AbstractSpin current is a very important tensor quantity in spintronics. However, the well-known spin-Hall effect (SHE) can only generate a few of its components whose propagating and polarization directions are perpendicular with each other and to an applied charge current. It is highly desirable in applications to generate spin currents whose polarization can be in any possible direction. Here anomalous SHE and inverse spin-Hall effect (ISHE) in magnetic systems are predicted. Spin currents, whose polarisation and propagation are collinear or orthogonal with each other and along or perpendicular to the charge current, can be generated, depending on whether the applied charge current is along or perpendicular to the order parameter. In anomalous ISHEs, charge currents proportional to the order parameter can be along or perpendicular to the propagating or polarization directions of the spin current.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongjoon Lee ◽  
Dongwook Go ◽  
Hyeon-Jong Park ◽  
Wonmin Jeong ◽  
Hye-Won Ko ◽  
...  

AbstractThe orbital Hall effect describes the generation of the orbital current flowing in a perpendicular direction to an external electric field, analogous to the spin Hall effect. As the orbital current carries the angular momentum as the spin current does, injection of the orbital current into a ferromagnet can result in torque on the magnetization, which provides a way to detect the orbital Hall effect. With this motivation, we examine the current-induced spin-orbit torques in various ferromagnet/heavy metal bilayers by theory and experiment. Analysis of the magnetic torque reveals the presence of the contribution from the orbital Hall effect in the heavy metal, which competes with the contribution from the spin Hall effect. In particular, we find that the net torque in Ni/Ta bilayers is opposite in sign to the spin Hall theory prediction but instead consistent with the orbital Hall theory, which unambiguously confirms the orbital torque generated by the orbital Hall effect. Our finding opens a possibility of utilizing the orbital current for spintronic device applications, and it will invigorate researches on spin-orbit-coupled phenomena based on orbital engineering.


2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (9) ◽  
pp. 1321
Author(s):  
Т.А. Шайхулов ◽  
К.Л. Станкевич ◽  
К.И. Константинян ◽  
В.В. Демидов ◽  
Г.А. Овсянников

The temperature dependence of the voltage induced by the spin current was studied in an epitaxial thin-film La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 / SrIrO3 heterostructure deposited on a single-crystal NdGaO3 substrate. The spin current was generated by microwave pumping under conditions of ferromagnetic resonance in the La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 ferromagnetic layer and was detected in the SrIrO3 layer due to inverse spin Hall effect. A significant increase of half-width of the spin current spectrum along with the rise of amplitude of the spin current upon cooling from room temperature (300 K) to 135 K were observed.


Author(s):  
Giovanna Marcelli ◽  
Gianluca Panati ◽  
Stefan Teufel

AbstractWe investigate some foundational issues in the quantum theory of spin transport, in the general case when the unperturbed Hamiltonian operator $$H_0$$ H 0 does not commute with the spin operator in view of Rashba interactions, as in the typical models for the quantum spin Hall effect. A gapped periodic one-particle Hamiltonian $$H_0$$ H 0 is perturbed by adding a constant electric field of intensity $$\varepsilon \ll 1$$ ε ≪ 1 in the j-th direction, and the linear response in terms of a S-current in the i-th direction is computed, where S is a generalized spin operator. We derive a general formula for the spin conductivity that covers both the choice of the conventional and of the proper spin current operator. We investigate the independence of the spin conductivity from the choice of the fundamental cell (unit cell consistency), and we isolate a subclass of discrete periodic models where the conventional and the proper S-conductivity agree, thus showing that the controversy about the choice of the spin current operator is immaterial as far as models in this class are concerned. As a consequence of the general theory, we obtain that whenever the spin is (almost) conserved, the spin conductivity is (approximately) equal to the spin-Chern number. The method relies on the characterization of a non-equilibrium almost-stationary state (NEASS), which well approximates the physical state of the system (in the sense of space-adiabatic perturbation theory) and allows moreover to compute the response of the adiabatic S-current as the trace per unit volume of the S-current operator times the NEASS. This technique can be applied in a general framework, which includes both discrete and continuum models.


2020 ◽  
Vol 116 (14) ◽  
pp. 141603
Author(s):  
Jinling Yu ◽  
Wenyi Wu ◽  
Yumeng Wang ◽  
Kejing Zhu ◽  
Xiaolin Zeng ◽  
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