Microscopic Origin of Spin-Orbit Torque in Ferromagnetic Heterostructures: A First Principles Approach

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01983v1
• Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 20:40:07 GMT
• Title: Microscopic Origin of Spin-Orbit Torque in Ferromagnetic Heterostructures: A First Principles Approach
• Authors: Farzad Mahfouzi, Rahul Mishra, Po-Hao Chang, Hyunsoo Yang, Nicholas Kioussis
• Abstract summary: We study the origin of the spin-orbit torque (SOT) in Normal-Metal(NM)/Ferromagnet(FM) heterostructures. The calculations reveal that the experimentally reported oxygen-induced sign-reversal of the FL-SOT in Pt/Co bilayers is due to the significant reduction of the majority-spin orbital moment accumulation on the interfacial NM atoms.
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• Abstract: We present an {\it ab initio}-based theoretical framework which elucidates the origin of the spin-orbit torque (SOT) in Normal-Metal(NM)/Ferromagnet(FM) heterostructures. The SOT is decomposed into two contributions, namely, {\it spin-Hall} and the {\it spin-orbital} components. We find that {\it (i)} the Field-Like (FL) SOT is dominated by the spin-orbital component and {\it (ii)} both components contribute to the damping-like torque with comparable magnitude in the limit of thick Pt film. The contribution of the spin-orbital component to the DL-SOT is present only for NMs with strong SOC coupling strength. We demonstrate that the FL-SOT can be expressed in terms of the non-equilibrium spin-resolved orbital moment accumulation. The calculations reveal that the experimentally reported oxygen-induced sign-reversal of the FL-SOT in Pt/Co bilayers is due to the significant reduction of the majority-spin orbital moment accumulation on the interfacial NM atoms.

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