Abstract
Oxide materials possess a vast range of functional properties, ranging from superconductivity to multiferroicity, that stem from the interplay between the lattice, charge, spin and orbital degrees of freedom, and electron correlations often play an important role in defining such properties. Historically, spin–orbit coupling was rarely a dominant energy scale in oxides. However, it recently became the focus of intense interest and was exploited to realize various exotic phenomena connected with real-space and reciprocal-space topology that may be harnessed in spintronics applications. In this Review, we survey the recent advances in the new field of oxide spin-orbitronics, with a special focus on spin–charge interconversion through the direct and inverse spin Hall and Edelstein effects, and on the generation and observation of topological spin textures, such as skyrmions. We also highlight the control of spin–orbit-driven effects by ferroelectricity and discuss the future perspectives for the field.
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The authors thank A. Caviglia and M. Cuoco for fruitful discussions and S. Vélez for the critical reading of this manuscript. This work received support from the ERC Advanced Grant no. 833973 ‘FRESCO’, the QuantERA project ‘QUANTOX’, the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the ‘Investissement d’Avenir’ programme (LABEX NanoSaclay, ref. ANR-10-LABX-0035) through project ‘AXION’ and the Laboratoire d’Excellence LANEF (ANR-10-LABX-51-01), ANR project OISO (ANR-17-CE24-0026-03) and ANR project CONTRABASS (ANR-19-CE24-CE24-0023). F.T. acknowledges support by research grant 37338 (SANSIT) from Villum Fonden. P.N. acknowledges the support of the ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship programme. J.-P.A. acknowledges support from the ‘Institut Universitaire de France’ and from the French National Research Agency in the framework of the ‘Investissements d’avenir’ programme (ANR-15-IDEX-02).
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Trier, F., Noël, P., Kim, JV. et al. Oxide spin-orbitronics: spin–charge interconversion and topological spin textures. Nat Rev Mater 7, 258–274 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-021-00395-9
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