Spintronics meets orbitronics: Emergence of orbital angular momentum in solids

D Jo, D Go, GM Choi, HW Lee - npj Spintronics, 2024 - nature.com
One of the ultimate goals of spintronics is to realize an efficient electrical manipulation of
spin for high-speed and low-power nanodevices. A core ingredient for achieving this goal is …

Orbital angular momentum of Bloch electrons: equilibrium formulation, magneto-electric phenomena, and the orbital Hall effect

R Burgos Atencia, A Agarwal, D Culcer - Advances in Physics: X, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The investigation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of delocalised Bloch electrons has
advanced our understanding of magnetic, transport, and optical phenomena in crystals …

Observation of the orbital Hall effect in a light metal Ti

YG Choi, D Jo, KH Ko, D Go, KH Kim, HG Park, C Kim… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The orbital Hall effect refers to the generation of electron orbital angular momentum flow
transverse to an external electric field. Contrary to the common belief that the orbital angular …

Magneto-optical detection of the orbital Hall effect in chromium

I Lyalin, S Alikhah, M Berritta, PM Oppeneer… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The orbital Hall effect has been theoretically predicted but its direct observation is a
challenge. Here, we report the magneto-optical detection of current-induced orbital …

Time-domain observation of ballistic orbital-angular-momentum currents with giant relaxation length in tungsten

TS Seifert, D Go, H Hayashi, R Rouzegar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The emerging field of orbitronics exploits the electron orbital momentum L. Compared to
spin-polarized electrons, L may allow the transfer of magnetic information with considerably …

Observation of long-range orbital transport and giant orbital torque

H Hayashi, D Jo, D Go, T Gao, S Haku… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Modern spintronics relies on the generation of spin currents through spin-orbit coupling. The
spin-current generation has been believed to be triggered by current-induced orbital …

Orbital Hanle Magnetoresistance in a Transition Metal

G Sala, H Wang, W Legrand, P Gambardella - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The Hanle magnetoresistance is a telltale signature of spin precession in nonmagnetic
conductors, in which strong spin-orbit coupling generates edge spin accumulation via the …

Magnon orbital Nernst effect in honeycomb antiferromagnets without spin–orbit coupling

G Go, D An, HW Lee, SK Kim - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Recently, topological responses of magnons have emerged as a central theme in
magnetism and spintronics. However, resulting Hall responses are typically weak and …

Detection of long-range orbital-Hall torques

A Bose, F Kammerbauer, R Gupta, D Go, Y Mokrousov… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We report and quantify a large orbital-Hall torque generated by Nb and Ru, which we
identify from the strong dependence of torques on the ferromagnets. This is manifested as …

Inverse orbital Hall effect and orbitronic terahertz emission observed in the materials with weak spin-orbit coupling

P Wang, Z Feng, Y Yang, D Zhang, Q Liu, Z Xu… - npj Quantum …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Orbital Hall effect, which originates from materials with weak spin-orbit
coupling, has attracted considerable interest for spin-orbitronic applications. Here, we …