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SUBMITTER: Salemi L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6879646 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Salemi Leandro L Berritta Marco M Nandy Ashis K AK Oppeneer Peter M PM
Nature communications 20191126 1
Efficient manipulation of magnetic order with electric current pulses is desirable for achieving fast spintronic devices. The Rashba-Edelstein effect, wherein spin polarization is electrically induced in noncentrosymmetric systems, provides a mean to achieve staggered spin-orbit torques. Initially predicted for spin, its orbital counterpart has been disregarded up to now. Here we report a generalized Rashba-Edelstein effect, which generates not only spin polarization but also orbital polarizatio ...[more]