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, Julio, Pérez García, Lucas, Aballe, Lucía, Foerster, Michael
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/72108
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/72108
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:538.9
Electrons
Física de materiales
Física del estado sólido
2211 Física del Estado Sólido
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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 L_(3;2) absorption edges of highly Bi-doped Cu (Cu_(95)Bi_5). The detected x-ray magnetic circular dichroism signal corresponds to an induced magnetic moment of (2.2 + 0.5) x 10^(-12) mu(B) A^(-1) cm^(2) 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.