Roadmap of spin–orbit torques

Q Shao, P Li, L Liu, H Yang, S Fukami… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spin–orbit torque (SOT) is an emerging technology that enables the efficient manipulation of
spintronic devices. The initial processes of interest in SOTs involved electric fields, spin …

The role of spin in thermoelectricity

G Yang, L Sang, C Zhang, N Ye, A Hamilton… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Thermoelectric (TE) materials and devices are crucial for renewable thermal-to-electrical
energy conversion applications. The optimization of TE performance can be achieved by …

Emerging research landscape of altermagnetism

L Šmejkal, J Sinova, T Jungwirth - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Magnetism is one of the largest, most fundamental, and technologically most relevant fields
of condensed-matter physics. Traditionally, two basic magnetic phases have been …

First-principles theory of intrinsic spin and orbital Hall and Nernst effects in metallic monoatomic crystals

L Salemi, PM Oppeneer - Physical Review Materials, 2022 - APS
The generation of spin and orbital currents is of crucial importance in the field of spin-
orbitronics. In this work, using relativistic density functional theory and the Kubo linear …

Non-Hermitian topological magnonics

T Yu, J Zou, B Zeng, JW Rao, K Xia - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Dissipation in mechanics, optics, acoustics, and electronic circuits is nowadays recognized
to be not always detrimental but can be exploited to achieve non-Hermitian topological …

Coexistence of large conventional and planar spin Hall effect with long spin diffusion length in a low-symmetry semimetal at room temperature

P Song, CH Hsu, G Vignale, M Zhao, J Liu, Y Deng… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
The spin Hall effect (SHE) is usually observed as a bulk effect in high-symmetry crystals with
substantial spin–orbit coupling (SOC), where the symmetric spin–orbit field imposes a …

Efficient spin Seebeck and spin Nernst effects of magnons in altermagnets

Q Cui, B Zeng, P Cui, T Yu, H Yang - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We report two nondegenerate magnon modes with opposite spins or chiralities in collinearly
antiferromagnetic insulators driven by symmetry-governed anisotropic exchange couplings …

Transport phenomena in spin caloritronics

KI Uchida - Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The interconversion between spin, charge, and heat currents is being actively studied from
the viewpoints of both fundamental physics and thermoelectric applications in the field of …

Pure spin photocurrent in non-centrosymmetric crystals: bulk spin photovoltaic effect

H Xu, H Wang, J Zhou, J Li - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Spin current generators are critical components for spintronics-based information
processing. In this work, we theoretically and computationally investigate the bulk spin …

Chirality-induced selectivity of phonon angular momenta in chiral quartz crystals

K Ohe, H Shishido, M Kato, S Utsumi, H Matsuura… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
A generation, propagation, and transfer of phonon angular momenta are examined on
thermal transport in chiral insulative and diamagnetic crystals of α-quartz. We found that …