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EPL
Volume 120, Number 1, October 2017
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| Article Number | 17001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/120/17001 | |
| Published online | 19 December 2017 | |
Intrinsic spin-Hall effect in aluminum
B. I. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Nauky Ave. 47, Kharkov 61103, Ukraine
Received: 15 June 2017
Accepted: 21 November 2017
With the help of an artificially created spin imbalance that induces a charge imbalance unrelated to the Lorentz force, the relativistic spin-Hall effect (SHE) in 3D superpure monocrystalline aluminum was first studied. The nonlinear behavior of SHE in a magnetic field is revealed as a direct proof of the manifestation of the intrinsic (band) mechanism of the spin polarization of electrons in a nonmagnetic metal under spin-orbit interaction conditions with a minimized external impurity spin-polarization factor. Based on the data obtained, the spin-orbit coupling coefficient in aluminum is estimated.
PACS: 75.70.Tj – Spin-orbit effects / 72.25.-b – Spin polarized transport / 72.25.Ba – Spin polarized transport in metals
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