Paper Title:

Skew Scattering Mechanism by an Ab Initio Approach: Extrinsic Spin Hall Effect in Noble Metals

Periodical Solid State Phenomena (Volumes 168 - 169)
Main Theme Trends in Magnetism
Edited by V. Ustinov
Pages 27-30
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.168-169.27
Citation Martin Gradhand et al., 2010, Solid State Phenomena, 168-169, 27
Online since December, 2010
Authors Martin Gradhand, Dmitry V. Fedorov, Peter Zahn, Ingrid Mertig
Keywords Impurities in Metals, KKR Method, Skew Scattering, Spin Hall Effect
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Abstract

We present a first-principles study of the extrinsic spin Hall effect due to skew scattering at substitutional defects in noble metals (Cu, Ag, and Au). The dependence of the spin Hall angle on the type of impurity atoms in the host materials is discussed. We perform a detailed analysis based on the consideration of the total angular momentum dependence on scattering phase shifts of the impurity and host atoms.