The orbital Hall effect in light materials has attracted considerable attention for developing novel orbitronic devices. Here we investigate the orbital torque efficiency and demonstrate the switching of the perpendicularly magnetized materials through the orbital Hall material (OHM), i.e., Zirconium (Zr). The orbital torque efficiency of approximately 0.78 is achieved in the Zr OHM with the perpendicularly magnetized [Co/Pt]3 sample, which significantly surpasses that of the perpendicularly magnetized CoFeB/Gd/CoFeB sample (approximately 0.04). Such notable difference is attributed to the different spin-orbit correlation strength between the [Co/Pt]3 sample and the CoFeB/Gd/CoFeB sample, which has been confirmed through the theoretical calculations. Furthermore, the full magnetization switching of the [Co/Pt]3 sample with a switching current density of approximately 2.6x106 A/cm2 has been realized through Zr, which even outperforms that of the W spin Hall material. Our finding provides a guideline to understand orbital torque efficiency and paves the way to develop energy-efficient orbitronic devices.
@article{arxiv.2403.03043,
title = {Orbital torque switching in perpendicularly magnetized materials},
author = {Yuhe Yang and Ping Wang and Jiali Chen and Delin Zhang and Chang Pan and Shuai Hu and Ting Wang and Wensi Yue and Cheng Chen and Wei Jiang and Lujun Zhu and Xuepeng Qiu and Yugui Yao and Yue Li and Wenhong Wang and Yong Jiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03043},
year = {2024}
}