@article{996412d29e7640aab5d68f6cde0a1830,
title = "Spin-Flip Diffusion Length in 5d Transition Metal Elements: A First-Principles Benchmark",
abstract = "Little is known about the spin-flip diffusion length lsf, one of the most important material parameters in the field of spintronics. We use a density-functional-theory based scattering approach to determine values of lsf that result from electron-phonon scattering as a function of temperature for all 5d transition metal elements. lsf does not decrease monotonically with the atomic number Z but is found to be inversely proportional to the density of states at the Fermi level. By using the same local current methodology to calculate the spin Hall angle ΘsH that characterizes the efficiency of the spin Hall effect, we show that the products ρ(T)lsf(T) and ΘsH(T)lsf(T) are constant.",
author = "Nair, {Rohit S.} and Ehsan Barati and Kriti Gupta and Zhe Yuan and Kelly, {Paul J.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was financially supported by the “Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek” (NWO) through the research programme of the former “Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie,” (NWO-I, formerly FOM) and through the use of supercomputer facilities of NWO “Exacte Wetenschappen” (Physical Sciences). R. S. N (Project No. 15CSER12) and K. G. (Project No. 13CSER059) acknowledge funding from the Shell-NWO/FOM “Computational Sciences for Energy Research (CSER)” Ph.D. program. The work was also supported by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Work in Beijing was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61774018), the Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2018EYT03). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 American Physical Society.",
year = "2021",
month = may,
day = "12",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.196601",
language = "English",
volume = "126",
journal = "Physical review letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "19",
}