Magnetic skyrmions have attracted enormous research interest since their discovery a
decade ago. The non-trivial real-space topology of these nano-whirls leads to fundamentally …

Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged
as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin …

Magnetic nanostructures are being developed for use in many aspects of our daily life,
spanning areas such as data storage, sensing and biomedicine. Whereas patterned …

Recent demonstrations of magnetization switching induced by in-plane current injection in
heavy metal/ferromagnetic heterostructures have drawn increasing attention to spin torques …

Current-induced effective magnetic fields can provide efficient ways of electrically
manipulating the magnetization of ultrathin magnetic heterostructures. Two effects, known as …

Solid understanding of current induced torques is a key to the development of current and
voltage controlled magnetization dynamics in ultrathin magnetic heterostructures. To …

In the past decade, resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) has made remarkable progress
as a spectroscopic technique. This is a direct result of the availability of high-brilliance …

Recent advances in the understanding of spin orbital effects in ultrathin magnetic
heterostructures have opened new paradigms to control magnetic moments electrically. The …

In order to explain recent experiments reporting a motion of magnetic domain walls (DW) in
nanowires carrying a current, we propose a modification of the spin transfer torque term in …

In bilayer nanowires consisting of a ferromagnetic layer and a nonmagnetic layer with strong
spin-orbit coupling, currents create torques on the magnetization beyond those found in …