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Fractional Spin Ferroelectric and Sliding Spin Current in Magnetic Sliding Ferroelectrics

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Pith's one-line read Sliding magnetic bilayers convert an electric field into a pure spin current with zero charge current.

desk verdict A fresh mechanism for pure spin current in magnetic sliding ferroelectrics, with clean symmetry arguments and DFT support, but an untested spin-U(1) assumption that likely breaks down in the headline material CrI3. read the letter →

arxiv 2608.07305 v1 pith:R34CEY7H submitted 2026-08-07 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Yilin Han , Lei Li , Chaoxi Cui , Run-Wu Zhang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao This is my paper · ORCID
classification cond-mat.mtrl-sci PACS 72.25.-b77.80.-e
keywords fractionalspinferroelectricslidingcurrentpureferroelectricityelectronicpolarizationquantumbilayerCrI32H-VX2
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A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

The paper argues that a new class of materials, magnetic sliding ferroelectrics, can convert an out-of-plane electric field into a pure spin current with no accompanying charge current. During ferroelectric switching, the top layer slides and the charge contributions of ions and valence electrons cancel, while the spin contribution, carried only by electrons, changes by a quantized fractional polarization quantum. The authors call this the sliding spin current and verify it with first-principles calculations in bilayer CrI$_3$, bilayer $2H$-V$X_2$ ($X$ = S, Se, Te), and several other magnetic bilayers. If correct, this gives an all-electrical, low-dissipation route to generating spin currents that does not require heavy elements or large charge currents, with predicted densities comparable to the spin Hall effect.

What carries the argument

The central object is the spin electronic polarization $P_s = P^\uparrow - P^\downarrow$, the difference of the Berry-phase electric polarizations of the two spin channels, together with the symmetry operator $O = \{g \mid \tau\}$ (a point-group operation followed by a translation) that maps one ferroelectric state onto the other. The argument requires two conditions: $O P_s - P_s$ must equal a sum of the symmetry-allowed fractional polarization quanta $F_i$, and the translation $\tau$ must be a fractional lattice translation. When both hold, $\delta P_s$ is quantized while the charge polarization change $\delta P$ vanishes because the van der Waals layers are nearly charge neutral, so each layer's ionic and electronic charge centers move together and cancel; the spin current then follows from $J_s = \delta P_s / \Delta t$.

What would settle it

A first-principles calculation of the sliding path with spin-orbit coupling included, or a spin-transport measurement on bilayer CrI$_3$ during switching, that yields a nonzero charge current or a spin electronic polarization change that is not an integer multiple of the fractional polarization quantum would contradict the central claim.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that magnetic sliding ferroelectrics, whose two degenerate ground states differ by an interlayer sliding, are simultaneously fractional spin ferroelectrics: during ferroelectric switching the in-plane spin electronic polarization $P_s = P^\uparrow - P^\downarrow$ changes by a quantized amount, an integer multiple of the fractional polarization quantum, while the in-plane electric polarization $P$ returns to the same value because the ionic and valence-electron charge transfers exactly cancel. As a result, the switching produces a pure spin current $J_s = \delta P_s / \Delta t$ with zero charge current, which the authors term the sliding spin current. The claim is verified by symmetry analysis and first-principles calculations for H-stacked bilayer CrI$_3$, R-stacked bilayer $2H$-V$X_2$ ($X$ = S, Se, Te), and several other magnetic bilayers, where the estimated spin current densities at 1 ns switching reach $10^9$ and $10^8$ in units of $(\hbar/2e)\,\mathrm{A/m^2}$.

Load-bearing premise

The derivation assumes spin U(1) symmetry, meaning collinear magnetic order with negligible spin-orbit coupling, so that up-spin and down-spin polarizations are separately well defined and the spin current is conserved.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Applying a periodic out-of-plane electric field to a magnetic sliding ferroelectric drives repeated sliding and produces an alternating pure spin current with no charge current.
  • The estimated spin current densities reach about $10^9\,(\hbar/2e)\,\mathrm{A/m^2}$ in H-stacked bilayer CrI$_3$ and $10^8\,(\hbar/2e)\,\mathrm{A/m^2}$ in bilayer $2H$-V$X_2$ at 1 ns switching, comparable to spin Hall sources without requiring large charge currents.
  • The effect operates in materials with negligible spin-orbit coupling, unlike the spin Hall effect, widening the material base for all-electrical spin current generation.
  • The compensation between ionic and valence-electron charge transfer is symmetry-protected, so the pure spin current does not depend on the detailed sliding path.
  • If picosecond light-induced switching is achieved, the spin current density could rise to about $10^{12}\,(\hbar/2e)\,\mathrm{A/m^2}$ in bilayer CrI$_3$.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • In real iodides such as CrI$_3$, spin-orbit coupling will mix the up and down spin channels, so the exact quantization and the perfectly charge-free character of the current may soften into a spin current that also exerts a torque; a natural test is to recompute the spin-resolved polarization along the sliding path with spin-orbit coupling included.
  • The same cancellation logic should apply to orbital angular momentum, since the ions carry no orbital moment, so materials with nonzero orbital electronic polarization could host a sliding orbital current.
  • The symmetry criterion, a point-group operator plus a fractional translation that maps $P_s$ to a sum of symmetry-allowed quanta, provides a fast screening rule for discovering new fractional spin ferroelectrics without full first-principles calculations.
  • The formula $J_s = \delta P_s / \Delta t$ assumes the switching is slow enough for the adiabatic polarization-change relation to hold; at picosecond timescales, non-adiabatic and phonon-drag effects may change the instantaneous current and should be checked in time-dependent simulations.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper introduces the concept of fractional spin ferroelectricity (FSFE) in magnetic sliding ferroelectrics (SFEs) and proposes that ferroelectric switching in such systems generates a pure spin current, the "sliding spin current." Under the assumption of spin U(1) symmetry, the electric polarization is decomposed into ionic and spin-resolved electronic parts, and the difference between up- and down-spin electronic polarizations defines the spin electronic polarization P_s. The authors argue that during interlayer sliding the ionic and valence-electron contributions to the in-plane charge polarization cancel, so the electric polarization does not change, while the in-plane spin polarization changes by a (fractional) polarization quantum, giving a pure spin current J_s = δP_s/Δt. The symmetry argument is illustrated with a toy model and supported by DFT+U calculations for H-stacked bilayer CrI3 and R-stacked bilayer 2H-VX2 (X = S, Se, Te), as well as several other magnetic SFEs listed in Table I. The reported spin-current densities are on the order of 10^9 (ℏ/2e) A/m² for CrI3 and 10^8 (ℏ/2e) A/m² for VX2 at a 1 ns switching time.

Significance. If the central mechanism survives scrutiny, this is a conceptually new and appealing route to all-electrical pure spin-current generation, distinct from the spin Hall effect and spin pumping. The paper's strengths include a clean symmetry-based derivation, a simple solvable toy model, path-resolved first-principles calculations of P_ion, P↑, P↓, P, and P_s for multiple candidate materials, and concrete quantitative predictions that are in principle testable. The main risk is that the entire framework relies on spin U(1) symmetry, while the proposed realistic materials contain heavy elements with non-negligible spin-orbit coupling; the manuscript does not test whether the quantization and the pure-spin-current property survive SOC. A second, more local concern is whether the purity of the current is guaranteed along the entire switching path or only in the endpoint-averaged sense of Eq. (3). These issues are load-bearing for the material-specific predictions but appear addressable within the scope of a revision.

major comments (3)
  1. [Symmetry analysis, Eqs. (1)-(3); Figs. 3-4] The derivation of P_s = P↑ - P↓ and the subsequent quantization statements assume spin U(1) symmetry, i.e., conserved spin with well-defined up and down channels. This assumption is stated at the start of the symmetry analysis but is not validated for the proposed materials. CrI3 contains iodine and has strong magnetic anisotropy, and VTe2 (and to a lesser extent VSe2) contain heavy chalcogens, so spin-orbit coupling is not negligible. Without SOC, the decomposition into spin-resolved Berry phases is gauge-invariant and the spin current is conserved; with SOC, P_s as defined here loses its gauge-invariant meaning and spin-orbit torque terms enter the spin continuity equation. The manuscript provides no noncollinear or SOC calculations to show that the reported δP_s values (e.g., -2Q_a for CrI3 and (1/3,-1/3)Q for VS2) survive. I request a concrete test: perform noncollinear DFT with SOC along the sliding path, using a global spin projection to evaluate the spin polarization, and check whether the quantization and the cancellation of charge current remain; alternatively, restrict the quantitative material claims to strictly negligible-SOC cases and clearly label the CrI3 and VTe2 predictions as an idealized U(1) limit.
  2. [Eq. (3) and Figs. 3(c), 4(c)] Equation (3) defines J_c and J_s as mean currents over the switching time using only the endpoint difference δP = OP - P. A vanishing δP guarantees zero time-integrated charge transfer, but not zero instantaneous charge current during the switching process. In the CrI3 section the text states that along the path the total electric polarization is "nearly unchanged and returns to zero" while individual contributions show "sizable variations." This implies dP/dt is generally nonzero along the path, so the charge current is not strictly zero at every instant; the "pure" character holds only in a time-averaged or endpoint-integrated sense. The central claim of the paper is a pure spin current without charge transport, so the authors should either demonstrate that J_c(t) = 0 along the entire adiabatic path (e.g., by showing the path-resolved total P is constant to numerical precision for every material) or explicitly redefine "pure spin current" as zero net charge transfer over the full switching event. This distinction is important because the mechanism's novelty rests on the absence of charge transport.
  3. [Table I and Discussion] The claim that "most currently known magnetic SFEs turn out to be FSFEs" is supported only by the eight materials listed in Table I and discussed in the text and Supplemental Material. This is an extrapolation that is not justified by an exhaustive survey of known magnetic SFEs. The statement should be softened to "all magnetic SFEs examined here" or supported by a broader materials screening.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Discussion, spin-current density estimates] The conversion from the 2D current-per-width δP_s/Δt (units A/m) to the quoted 3D current densities of 10^9 and 10^8 (ℏ/2e) A/m² is not specified. The effective thickness used for each material should be stated explicitly, because it directly affects the quantitative comparison with spin Hall experiments.
  2. [Toy model, Eq. (4)] In Eq. (4), the quantity δ' = 1 - δ/2 is introduced without explanation. The text should clarify what units δ is measured in and why δ' takes this particular form.
  3. [References] Reference [35] is cited as an arXiv preprint from 2026. If this work has not yet appeared in a peer-reviewed venue, the citation should be marked as a preprint to avoid giving the impression of a published reference.
  4. [Figures 3 and 4] The figure captions for the DFT results do not define the reference state with respect to which the plotted variations are computed, nor the modulus convention used for P and P_s modulo Q. Defining these conventions would improve reproducibility.
  5. [Section 'H-stacked bilayer CrI3'] The text states that δP_s = (-2Q_a, 0) and calls this an integer multiple of Q. Since the paper's title and central concept emphasize fractional spin ferroelectricity, it would be helpful to clarify in the text that integer multiples of Q are included in the FSFE classification and that the genuinely fractional case is realized in VX2 and the other Table I entries.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the spin-current magnitudes are computed from DFT and symmetry, not fitted, and the J_s = δP_s/Δt relation is a definitional conversion rather than the prediction itself.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is self-contained. The spin electronic polarization P_s is defined as P_up - P_down (Eq. 2), and the mean currents are defined via J_c = δP/Δt and J_s = δP_s/Δt (Eq. 3). These are definitions, but the paper's predictive content is the computed values of δP_s (for example, -2Q_a in bilayer CrI3 and (1/3,-1/3)Q in bilayer VS2), which are obtained from DFT calculations along the sliding path and from the symmetry operator O connecting the two ferroelectric states. The central cancellation claim (δP = 0 while δP_s ≠ 0) is a computed result that depends on the small interlayer charge transfer q listed in Table I, not an imposed input. The explicit assumption of spin U(1) symmetry is a stated validity condition; its possible failure in real materials with SOC (e.g., CrI3 and VTe2) is a correctness caveat rather than a circular step. The self-citations [70,71] concern the type-IV magnet intermediate state, which is peripheral to the spin-current derivation and is not load-bearing. No equation in the paper reduces to another by construction, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the spin U(1) and negligible ion magnetic moment assumptions, the Berry-phase definition of spin-resolved polarization, and DFT+U parameters (U=3 eV). The quantitative current density additionally depends on an assumed switching time and an unstated layer thickness conversion. No new particles or forces are introduced; the new content is a symmetry-based classification and material predictions.

free parameters (3)
  • Hubbard U = 3 eV
    Applied to Cr and V d-electrons in PBE+U; the value is chosen a priori and not varied, and the polarization results may depend on it.
  • switching time Delta(t) = 1 ns
    Taken from experimental sliding ferroelectric switching times, used to convert delta(P_s) into spin-current density; the current density scales inversely with Delta(t).
  • effective thickness for 3D current density = not stated explicitly
    The quoted A/m^2 values require converting the 2D polarization current (A/m) to 3D using a layer thickness, but the thickness used is not given in the text.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Spin U(1) symmetry (collinear spins, negligible spin-orbit coupling)
    Stated at the start of the symmetry analysis: 'For simplicity, we assume the magnetic SFEs have spin U(1) symmetry.' This makes P_up and P_down well-defined and spin current conserved.
  • domain assumption Ions carry negligible magnetic moment
    Used to conclude that ion motion contributes no spin current, so J_s comes only from valence electrons. Reasonable for the light ions considered but not exact.
  • domain assumption Transient current equals delta(P)/Delta(t)
    Equation (3) defines mean currents during switching; this assumes the polarization difference divided by switching time captures the relevant transport, and that the path is the one connecting the two states.
  • standard math Modern theory of polarization (Berry phase) applies to each spin channel
    P_up and P_down are evaluated via Berry connections following Vanderbilt; this is standard for insulators, but requires the system to remain insulating along the sliding path.
  • domain assumption DFT+U with U=3 eV describes the magnetic ground states
    The calculated polarizations and moments depend on the exchange-correlation and Hubbard U; no validation against beyond-DFT methods is provided.

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abstract

We investigate the fractional spin ferroelectric (FSFE) in magnetic sliding ferroelectrics (SFEs), where ferroelectric switching is characterized not only by the reversal of the out-of-plane electric polarization but also by a variation of fractional in-plane spin electronic polarization. We show that interlayer sliding in FSFEs can naturally lead to a symmetry-protected pure spin current, termed the sliding spin current here. The underlying mechanism is that, during switching, the contributions of valence electrons and ions to the in-plane charge transfer cancel each other, whereas the in-plane spin transfer, which stems solely from valence electrons, persists, leading to a pure spin current. We demonstrate our ideas in various material candidates, including $H$-stacked bilayer CrI$_3$, whose few-layer form has been experimentally confirmed to be a magnetic SFE, and $R$-stacked bilayers $2H$-V$X_2$ ($X=$ S, Se, Te), which have been experimentally synthesised. For a typical switching time of about $1$ ns, the estimated spin-current densities for bilayer CrI$_3$ and V$X_2$ reach $10^9 (\hbar/2e)\mathrm{A/m^2}$ and $10^8 (\hbar/2e)\mathrm{A/m^2}$, respectively. This means that by applying a periodic out-of-plane electric field, a significant alternating spin current can be generated in magnetic SFEs. Thus, our findings propose a compelling new mechanism for the all-electrical generation of pure spin current, and predict concrete realistic materials for experimental verification.

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