Magnetism, symmetry and spin transport in van der Waals layered systems

H Kurebayashi, JH Garcia, S Khan, J Sinova… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The discovery of an ever-increasing family of atomic layered magnetic materials, together
with the already established vast catalogue of strong spin–orbit coupling and topological …

Recent advances in spin-orbit torques: Moving towards device applications

R Ramaswamy, JM Lee, K Cai, H Yang - Applied Physics Reviews, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The ability of spintronic devices to utilize an electric current for manipulating the
magnetization has resulted in large-scale developments, such as magnetic random access …

Tilted spin current generated by the collinear antiferromagnet ruthenium dioxide

A Bose, NJ Schreiber, R Jain, DF Shao, HP Nair… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Symmetry plays a central role in determining the polarization of spin currents induced by
electric fields. It also influences how these spin currents generate spin-transfer torques in …

Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization at room temperature using out-of-plane spins from TaIrTe4

Y Liu, G Shi, D Kumar, T Kim, S Shi, D Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The development of spintronic devices based on spin–orbit torque requires the electrical-
current-driven field-free switching of magnetization in materials with perpendicular magnetic …

Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization by two-dimensional PtTe2/WTe2 van der Waals heterostructures with high spin Hall conductivity

F Wang, G Shi, KW Kim, HJ Park, JG Jang, HR Tan… - Nature materials, 2024 - nature.com
The key challenge of spin–orbit torque applications lies in exploring an excellent spin
source capable of generating out-of-plane spins while exhibiting high spin Hall conductivity …

Nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in few-layer WTe2

K Kang, T Li, E Sohn, J Shan, KF Mak - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
The Hall effect occurs only in systems with broken time-reversal symmetry, such as materials
under an external magnetic field in the ordinary Hall effect and magnetic materials in the …

Observation of the nonlinear Hall effect under time-reversal-symmetric conditions

Q Ma, SY Xu, H Shen, D MacNeill, V Fatemi, TR Chang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The electrical Hall effect is the production, upon the application of an electric field, of a
transverse voltage under an out-of-plane magnetic field. Studies of the Hall effect have led to …

Probing magnetism in 2D van der Waals crystalline insulators via electron tunneling

DR Klein, D MacNeill, JL Lado, D Soriano… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Magnetic insulators are a key resource for next-generation spintronic and topological
devices. The family of layered metal halides promises varied magnetic states, including …

Large out-of-plane spin–orbit torque in topological Weyl semimetal TaIrTe4

L Bainsla, B Zhao, N Behera, AM Hoque… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The unique electronic properties of topological quantum materials, such as protected
surface states and exotic quasiparticles, can provide an out-of-plane spin-polarized current …

Anomalous spin current anisotropy in a noncollinear antiferromagnet

C Cao, S Chen, RC **ao, Z Zhu, G Yu, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cubic materials host high crystal symmetry and hence are not expected to support
anisotropy in transport phenomena. In contrast to this common expectation, here we report …