Different types of spin currents in the comprehensive materials database of nonmagnetic spin Hall effect

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Contributors

  • Yang Zhang - , Chair of Solid State Theory, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Author)
  • Qiunan Xu - , Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Author)
  • Klaus Koepernik - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • Roman Rezaev - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • Oleg Janson - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • Jakub Železný - , Czech Academy of Sciences (Author)
  • Tomáš Jungwirth - , Czech Academy of Sciences, University of Nottingham (Author)
  • Claudia Felser - , Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Harvard University (Author)
  • Jeroen van den Brink - , Clusters of Excellence ct.qmat: Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter, Chair of Solid State Theory, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Author)
  • Yan Sun - , Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Author)

Abstract

Spin Hall effect (SHE) has its special position in spintronics. To gain new insight into SHE and to identify materials with substantial spin Hall conductivity (SHC), we performed high-precision high-throughput ab initio calculations of the intrinsic SHC for over 20,000 nonmagnetic crystals. The calculations revealed a strong relationship between the magnitude of the SHC and the crystalline symmetry, where a large SHC is typically associated with mirror symmetry-protected nodal line band structures. This database includes 11 materials with an SHC comparable to or even larger than that of Pt. Materials with different types of spin currents were additionally identified. Furthermore, we found that different types of spin current can be obtained by rotating applied electrical fields. This improves our understanding and is expected to facilitate the design of new types of spin-orbitronic devices.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Journalnpj computational materials
Volume7
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021
Peer-reviewedYes