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 Hall effect and orbital edge states caused by electrons

O Busch, I Mertig, B Göbel - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
An orbital current can be generated whenever an object has a translational degree of
freedom and a rotational degree of freedom. In condensed matter physics, intra-atomic …

Topology-engineered orbital Hall effect in two-dimensional ferromagnets

Z Chen, R Li, Y Bai, N Mao, M Zeer, D Go, Y Dai… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in the manipulation of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) within the
paradigm of orbitronics presents a promising avenue for the design of future electronic …

Nonlinear optics-driven spin reorientation in ferromagnetic materials

Q Xue, Y Sun, J Zhou - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Based on nonlinear optics, we propose that light irradiation could induce a nonequilibrium
steady state magnetization variation. We formulize a band theory to elucidate its general …

Quantum spin Hall effect protected by spin U (1) quasisymmetry

L Liu, Y Liu, J Li, H Wu, Q Liu - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators, with their unique helical edge states where
counterpropagating edge channels possess opposite spins, have attracted broad interest …

Orbital Hall effect and topology on a two-dimensional triangular lattice: From bulk to edge

ALR Barbosa, LM Canonico, JH García, TG Rappoport - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We investigate a generalized multiorbital tight-binding model on a triangular lattice, a system
prevalent in a wide range of two-dimensional materials and particularly relevant for …

Intrinsic torque on the orbital angular momentum in an electric field

RB Atencia, DP Arovas, D Culcer - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Orbitronics harnesses nonequilibrium densities and flows of electrons' orbital angular
momentum (OAM). Although the OAM must be long lived to be useful in information …

Ultrafast light-induced magnetization in non-magnetic films: from orbital and spin Hall phenomena to the inverse Faraday effect

H Hamamera, F Souza Mendes Guimarães… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The field of orbitronics has emerged with great potential to impact information technology by
enabling environmentally friendly electronic devices. The main electronic degree of freedom …

Orbitronics: Mechanisms, Materials and Devices

P Wang, F Chen, Y Yang, S Hu, Y Li… - Advanced Electronic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Spintronics has been extensively explored over the past decades, focusing primarily on the
spin characteristic of the electron, while the orbital feature of the electron has been …

Spin and orbital Edelstein effect in a bilayer system with Rashba interaction

S Leiva-Montecinos, J Henk, I Mertig… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The spin Edelstein effect has proven to be a promising phenomenon to generate spin
polarization from a charge current in systems without inversion symmetry. In recent years, a …