Imaging of a van der Waals spin-orbit torque system using spin ensembles in hBN
June 2026 Xi Zhang; Jingcheng Zhou; Chaowei Hu; PeiYu Cai; Kuangyin Deng; Chuangtang Wang; Nishkarsh Agarwal; Hanshang Jin; Faris A. Al-Matouq; Stelo Xu; Roshan S. Trivedi; Senlei Li; Sumedh Rathi; Hanyi Lu; Zhigang Jiang; Valentin Taufour; Robert Hovden; Liuyan Zhao; Ran Cheng; Xiaodong Xu; Elton J. G. Santos; Jiun-Haw Chu; Chunhui Rita Du; Hailong Wang Nature Communications 17, 7350 (2026)
Disentangled field-like and damping-like torques in deterministic SOT switching, clarifying the SOT/STT interplay in Fe3GaTe2/hBN.