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@PHDTHESIS{Bouaziz:865993,
author = {Bouaziz, Juba},
title = {{S}pin-orbitronics at the nanoscale: {F}rom analytical
models to real materials},
volume = {204},
school = {RWTH Aachen},
type = {Dr.},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-05254},
isbn = {978-3-95806-429-4},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. Reihe
Schlüsseltechnologien / Key Technologies},
pages = {228 S.},
year = {2019},
note = {RWTH Aachen, Diss., 2019},
abstract = {This thesis provides a theoretical description of magnetic
nanostructures in inversion-asymmetric environments with
strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI). The theoretical
concepts introduced here can be applied in the field of
spin-orbitronics, which consists ofexploiting the SOI to
manipulate the electron spin without external magnetic
fields. The investigated systems display a plethora of
interesting phenomena ranging from chiral magnetic
interactions to gapped magnetic excitations. In practice, we
adopt two different approaches: First, a model-based one
relying on the Rashba Hamiltonian, which is employed to
demystify and understand magnetic and transport properties
of magnetic nanostructures embedded in a Rashba electron
gas. Second, we use a first-principles approach within the
framework of the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) Green function
method to investigate the ground state properties of
magnetic impurities in topologically insulating hosts. This
method is suitable to simulate nanostructures in real space.
Then, we employed our newly developed code based on
time-dependent density functional theory to compute the spin
excitation spectra of these magnetic nanostructures embedded
in topological insulators. Moreover, the KKR Green function
method was used to simulate the electronic structure and
ground state properties of large magnetic nanostructures,
namely magnetic Skyrmions. In the first part, the analytical
Rashba Green function and the scattering matrices modeling
the magnetic impurities in the s-wave approximation are
employed for the computation of the magnetic interaction
tensor which contains: isotropic exchange,
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) and pseudo-dipolar interactions.
The competition between these interactions leads to a rich
phase diagram depending on the distance between the magnetic
impurities. Next, we consider an external perturbing
electric field and investigate the transport properties by
computing the residual resistivity tensor within linear
response theory. The contribution of SOI is explored. The
investigation of arbitrary orientations of the impurity
magnetic moment allowed a detailed analysis of contributions
from the anisotropic magnetoresistance and planar Hall
effect. Moreover, we calculate the impurity induced bound
currents in the Rashba electron gas, which are used to
compute the induced orbital magnetization. For a trimer of
impurities with a non-vanishing spin chirality (SC) a finite
orbital magnetization is observed when SOI is turned off.
Since it emerges from the SC, it was named chiral orbital
magnetization. [...]},
cin = {IAS-1 / PGI-1},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-1-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-1-20110106},
pnm = {142 - Controlling Spin-Based Phenomena (POF3-142)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-142},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3 / PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/865993},
}