Direct X-Ray detection of the spin Hall effect in CuBi

The spin Hall effect and the inverse spin Hall effect are important spin-charge conversion mechanisms. The direct spin Hall effect induces a surface spin accumulation from a transverse charge current due to spin-orbit coupling even in nonmagnetic conductors. However, most detection schemes involve a...

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Autores: Ruiz-Gómez, Sandra, Guerrero, Rubén, Khaliq, Muhammad W., Fernández-González, Claudia, Prat, Jordi, Valera, Andrés, Finizio, Simone, Perna, Paolo, Camarero de Diego, Julio, Pérez, Lucas, Aballe, Lucía, Foerster, Michael
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/706309
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/706309
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.031032
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Binary Alloys
Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
Copper
Crystal Symmetry
Dichroism
Magnetic Moments
X Ray Spectroscopy
Física
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Sumario:The spin Hall effect and the inverse spin Hall effect are important spin-charge conversion mechanisms. The direct spin Hall effect induces a surface spin accumulation from a transverse charge current due to spin-orbit coupling even in nonmagnetic conductors. However, most detection schemes involve additional interfaces, leading to large scattering in reported data. Here we perform interface-free x-ray spectroscopy measurements at the Cu L3,2 absorption edges of highly Bi-doped Cu (Cu95Bi5). The detected x-ray magnetic circular dichroism signal corresponds to an induced magnetic moment of (2.2 ± 0.5) × 10-12 μB A-1 cm2 per Cu atom averaged over the probing depth, which is of the same order of magnitude as found for Pt measured by magneto-optics. The results highlight the importance of interface-free measurements to assess material parameters and the potential of CuBi for spin-charge conversion applications