Jairo Sinova

Jairo Sinova (* 1972 ) is a Spanish-American theoretical physicist who specializes in spintronics .

Sinova studied physics at Ohio University (bachelor's degree in 1994) and Indiana University , where he received his master's degree in 1995 and received his doctorate in 1999 under Steven Girvin (Nuclear magnetic resonance in the quantum Hall regime: skyrmion diffusion model). He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Tennessee and the University of Texas at Austin . In 2003 he became Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University , Associate Professor in 2007 and Professor in 2010. In 2013 he received a Humboldt Professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . There he is setting up a center for spintronics (Spin Phenomena Interdisciplinary Center, SPICE). He is a fellow of the Gutenberg Research College.

He theoretically predicted the intrinsic spin Hall effect and was involved in its experimental discovery. The spin Hall effect had been known since the 1970s, but was attributed to extrinsic causes (spin-orbit coupling of impurities). An intrinsic effect was proposed in 2003 independently by Shuichi Murakami, Shoucheng Zhang and Naoto Nagaosa (for p-type semiconductors) and Allan H. MacDonald , Sinova, Thomas Jungwirth and colleagues (for n-type semiconductors) in heterostructures. The spin Hall effect is of interest in spintronics because it offers an efficient way of injecting spins into semiconductors.

In 2010, together with colleagues, he proposed a spin-Hall-effect transistor that was built using only semiconductors.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and, together with others, received an ERC Synergy Grant for the project Spin-charge conversion and spin caloritronics at hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces .

Fonts (selection)

• with Dimitrie Culcer, Q. Niu, NA Sinitsyn, T. Jungwirth, AH MacDonald : Universal Intrinsic Spin-Hall Effect, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 126603 (2004). Arxiv
• with Joerg Wunderlich, Bernd Kaestner, Tomas Jungwirth: Experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled semiconductor systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 047204 (2005). Arxiv
• with J. Wunderlich, AC Irvine, BG Park, XL Xu, B. Kaestner, V. Novak, and T. Jungwirth: Spin-injection Hall effect in a planar photovoltaic cell, Nature Physics 5, 675 (2009).
• with Naoto Nagaosa, Shigeki Onoda, AH MacDonald, NP Ong: Anomalous Hall Effect, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 82, 1010, p. 1539, Arxiv
• with Jürgen Weischenberg, Frank Freimuth, Stefan Blügel, Yuriy Mokrousov: Ab Initio Theory of Scattering-Independent Anomalous Hall Effect, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 106601 (2011). Arxiv
• with J. Wunderlich, BG Park, AC Irvine, LP Zarbo, E. Rozkotova, P. Nemec, V. Novak, T. Jungwirth: Spin Hall effect transistor, Science 330, 1801 (2010).
• with C. Bruene, A. Roth, EG Novik, M. Koenig, H. Buhmann, EM Hankiewicz, W. Hanke, LW Molenkamp : Evidence of ballistic Intrinsic Spin Hall Effect in HgTe Nanostructures, Nature Physics 6, 448 (2010).
• with Xin Liu: Reading charge transport from spin dynamics on the surface of topological insulators, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 166801 (2013), Arxiv

Web links

• Website at the University of Mainz