Anisotropy of spin relaxation and transverse transport in metals

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Mokrousov, Yuriy ^a   Zhang, Hongbin ^a   Freimuth, Frank ^a   Zimmermann, Bernd ^a   Long, Nguyen H ^a   Weischenberg, Jürgen ^a   Souza, Ivo ^b,c   Mavropoulos, Phivos ^a   Blügel, Stefan ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC BEHAVIORS; ANOMALOUS HALL EFFECTS; FIRST PRINCIPLES METHOD; INVERSION SYMMETRY; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN POLARIZED TRANSPORT; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; SPONTANEOUS MAGNETIZATION;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETS; MIXING; PARAMAGNETISM; SPIN HALL EFFECT; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 84876398086     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/25/16/163201     Document Type: Review

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