Orbital Pumping by Magnetization Dynamics in Ferromagnets
Abstract
We show that dynamics of the magnetization in ferromagnets can pump the orbital angular momentum, which we denote by orbital pumping. This is the reciprocal phenomenon to the orbital torque that induces magnetization dynamics by the orbital angular momentum in non-equilibrium. The orbital pumping is analogous to the spin pumping established in spintronics but requires the spin-orbit coupling for the orbital angular momentum to interact with the magnetization. We develop a formalism that describes the generation of the orbital angular momentum by magnetization dynamics within the adiabatic perturbation theory. Based on this, we perform first-principles calculation of the orbital pumping in prototypical ferromagnets, Fe, Co, and Ni. The results show that the ratio between the orbital pumping and the spin pumping ranges from 5 to 15 percents, being smallest in Fe and largest in Ni. This implies that ferromagnetic Ni is a good candidate for measuring the orbital pumping. Implications of our results on experiments are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2309.14817,
title = {Orbital Pumping by Magnetization Dynamics in Ferromagnets},
author = {Dongwook Go and Kazuya Ando and Armando Pezo and Stefan Blügel and Aurélien Manchon and Yuriy Mokrousov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.14817},
year = {2024}
}