Chirality as generalized spin-orbit interaction in spintronics

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSREP.2023.01.002MaRDI QIDQ6155495zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tao Yu, Zhaochu Luo, Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Publication date 5 June 2023

Published in Physics Reports (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05535

zbMATH Keywords

chiral interactionchiral spin pumpingchiral spin seebeck effectchiralityevanescent electromagnetic fieldsgeneralized spin-orbit interactionmagnon Doppler effectnear-field spintronicsnon-reciprocityspin diode effectspin isolatorspin skin effectspin trapspin wavesspin-momentum lockingsurface acoustic wavessurface plasmon polaritonstransverse spin of evanescent wavesunidirectionalitywaveguide microwaves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-10) Quantum dots, waveguides, ratchets, etc. (81Q37) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: This review focuses on the chirality observed in the excited states of the magnetic order, dielectrics, and conductors that hold transverse spins when they are evanescent. Even without any relativistic effect, the transverse spin of the evanescent waves are locked to the momentum and the surface normal of their propagation plane. This chirality thereby acts as a generalized spin-orbit interaction, which leads to the discovery of various chiral interactions between magnetic, phononic, electronic, photonic, and plasmonic excitations in spintronics that mediate the excitation of quasiparticles into a single direction, leading to phenomena such as chiral spin and phonon pumping, chiral spin Seebeck, spin skin, magnonic trap, magnon Doppler, and spin diode effects. Intriguing analogies with electric counterparts in the nano-optics and plasmonics exist. After a brief review of the concepts of chirality that characterize the ground state chiral magnetic textures and chirally coupled magnets in spintronics, we turn to the chiral phenomena of excited states. We present a unified electrodynamic picture for dynamical chirality in spintronics in terms of generalized spin-orbit interaction and compare it with that in nano-optics and plasmonics. Based on the general theory, we subsequently review the theoretical progress and experimental evidence of chiral interaction, as well as the near-field transfer of the transverse spins, between various excitations in magnetic, photonic, electronic and phononic nanostructures at GHz time scales. We provide a perspective for future research before concluding this article.

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