TY - JOUR AU - Freimuth, F. AU - Blügel, S. AU - Mokrousov, Y. TI - Anisotropic Spin Hall Effect From First Principles JO - Physical review letters VL - 105 SN - 0031-9007 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - PreJuSER-12787 SP - 246602 PY - 2010 N1 - We gratefully acknowledge computing time on the supercomputers JUGENE and JUROPA at JSC and funding under the HGF-YIG programme VH-NG-513. AB - We report on first principles calculations of the anisotropy of the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity (SHC) in nonmagnetic hcp metals and in antiferromagnetic Cr. For most of the metals of this study we find large anisotropies. We derive the general relation between the SHC vector and the direction of spin polarization and discuss its consequences for hcp metals. Especially, it is predicted that for systems where the SHC changes sign due to the anisotropy the spin Hall effect may be tuned such that the spin polarization is parallel either to the electric field or to the spin current. KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000286737500005 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.246602 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/12787 ER -