Analysis of the giant spin Hall effect in Cu(Bi) alloys

作者:Fedorov Dmitry V*; Herschbach Christian; Johansson Annika; Ostanin Sergey; Mertig Ingrid; Gradhand Martin; Chadova Kristina; Koedderitzsch Diemo; Ebert Hubert
来源:Physical Review B, 2013, 88(8): 085116.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.085116

摘要

Two years after the prediction of a giant spin Hall effect for the dilute Cu(Bi) alloy [Gradhand et al., Phys. Rev. B 81, 245109 (2010)], a comparably strong effect was measured in thin films of Cu(Bi) alloys by Niimi et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 156602 (2012)]. Both theory and experiment consider the skew-scattering mechanism to be responsible, however they obtain opposite sign for the spin Hall angle. Based on a detailed analysis of the obtained theoretical results, we propose that either the formation of extremely small clusters or the influence of interface roughness and grain boundaries decorated with Bi atoms are responsible for the observed phenomenon.

  • 出版日期2013-8-19