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 …

Room-temperature van der Waals magnetoresistive memories with data writing by orbital current in the Weyl semimetal

D Li, XY Liu, ZC Pan, AQ Wang, J Zhang, P Yu… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Current-induced out of plane magnetization has been utilized for field-free switching of
ferromagnets with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Identifying systems capable of energy …

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 …

Facilitating field-free perpendicular magnetization switching with a Berry curvature dipole in a Weyl semimetal

D Li, XY Liu, XG Ye, ZC Pan, WZ Xu, PF Zhu, AQ Wang… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We report the synergy between orbital and spin-orbit torques in WTe 2/Fe 3 GeTe 2
heterostructures characterized by a Berry curvature dipole. By applying a current along the a …

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

RB Atencia, A Agarwal, D Culcer - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.07055, 2024 - arxiv.org
The investigation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of delocalised Bloch electrons has
significantly advanced our understanding of magnetic, transport, and optical phenomena in …

Nonlinear spin and orbital Edelstein effect in

XG Ye, PF Zhu, WZ Xu, TY Zhao, ZM Liao - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In materials with spin-momentum locked spin textures, such as Rashba states and
topological surface states, the current-induced shift of the Fermi contour in the k space leads …

Current-induced circular dichroism on metallic surfaces: A first-principles study

F Mahfouzi, MD Stiles, PM Haney - Physical Review B, 2025 - APS
We use ab initio calculations to evaluate the current-induced optical response and orbital
moment accumulation at the surfaces of metallic films. These two quantities are related by a …

Moir\'e amplification of highly tunable shift current response in twisted trilayer graphene

Y Mao, C Attaccalite, DG Ovalle - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.07844, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work we analyze the shift current conductivity in helical twisted trilayer graphene.
Without loss of generality, we show that the density of states and the twist angle set an upper …

Terahertz electro-optic effect in BiSe crystals

AA Melnikov, AA Sokolik, YG Selivanov… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We report the observation of the electro-optic effect in Bi $ _2 $ Se $ _3 $ crystals induced
by an intense single-cycle terahertz pulse. The effect reveals itself as a transient change of …