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Orbital magnetism is a purely quantum phenomenon that reflects intrinsic electronic properties of solids, yet its microscopic description in interacting multiband systems remains incomplete. We develop a general quantum many-body framework…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-22 Mengxing Ye

A feature of the "modern theory" is that electric polarization is not well-defined in a metallic ground state. A different approach invokes the general existence of a complete set of exponentially localized Wannier functions, with respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Perry T. Mahon , J. E. Sipe

Recent observations of quantum anomalous Hall effects in moir\'e systems have revealed the emergence of interaction-driven ferromagnetism with significant orbital contributions. To capture this physics, we extend the modern theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Xiaoyu Liu , Chong Wang , Haoran Chen , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

The theory of bulk orbital magnetization has been formulated both in reciprocal space based on Berry curvature and related quantities, and in real space in terms of the spatial average of a quantum mechanical local marker. Here we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Daniel Seleznev , David Vanderbilt

Magnetization is thermodynamically defined as the derivative of the grand potential with respect to a uniform magnetic field. However, a uniform magnetic field makes the kinetic momentum operators noncommuting and Landau-quantizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Chunli Huang

The orbital Hall effect, which does not rely on the spin-orbit coupling, has recently emerged as a promising mechanism for electrically manipulating magnetization in thin-film ferromagnets. Despite its potential, direct experimental…

Construction of hybrid atomic orbitals is proposed as the approximate common eigen states of finite first moment matrices. Their hybridization and orientation can be a-priori tunned as per their anticipated neighbourhood. Their Wannier…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-15 Manoar Hossain , Joydev De , Joydeep Bhattacharjee

Spin-orbit coupling introduces chirality into electronic structure. This can have profound effects on the magnetization induced by orbital motion of electrons. Here we derive a formula for the orbital magnetization of interacting electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-23 R. Nourafkan , G. Kotliar , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We derive an exact expression for the orbital magnetization of electrons with short-range interactions (such as density-density interactions) in terms of exact zero-frequency response functions of the zero-field system. The result applies…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-03 Xi Chen , Zhi-Da Song

Using the fully-relativistic screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method I study the orbital magnetism in the half-metallic Heusler alloys. Orbital moments are almost completely quenched and they are negligible with respect to the spin moments.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Galanakis

We study orbital magnetism in a three-dimensional (3D) quantum dot with a parabolic confining potential. We calculate the free energy of the system as a function of the magnetic field and the temperature. By this, we show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Takeru Suzuki , Hiroshi Imamura , Masahiko Hayashi , Hiromichi Ebisawa

We develop a gauge-independent perturbation theory for the grand potential of itinerant electrons in two-dimensional tight-binding models in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. At first order in the field, we recover the result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 A. Raoux , F. Piéchon , J. N. Fuchs , G. Montambaux

In experiments and applications usually the spin magnetic moment of magnons is considered. In this Paper we identify an additional degree of freedom of magnons: an \emph{orbital} magnetic moment brought about by spin-orbit coupling.Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-16 Robin R. Neumann , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

We calculate the orbital magnetization of 822 two-dimensional magnetic materials from the Computational 2D Materials Database (C2DB). For compounds containing 5$d$ elements we find orbital moments of the order of 0.3-0.5 $\mu_\mathrm{B}$,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-11 Martin Ovesen , Thomas Olsen

We describe an ab initio theory of finite temperature magnetism in strongly-correlated electron systems. The formalism is based on spin density functional theory, with a self-interaction corrected local spin density approximation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 I. D. Hughes , M. Daene , A. Ernst , W. Hergert , M. Lueders , J. B. Staunton , Z. Szotek , W. M. Temmerman

We present a rigorous derivation of the orbital magnetization for interacting electrons within the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. Our method also allows us to derive formulas for the orbital magnetic susceptibility. The results…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-16 Jian Kang , Minxuan Wang , Oskar Vafek

The availability of large magnetic fields at international facilities and of simulated magnetic fields that can reach the flux-quantum-per-unit-area level in cold atoms, calls for systematic studies of orbital effects of the magnetic field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-20 S. Acheche , L-F. Arsenault , A. -M. S. Tremblay

Orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) has been used when studying atoms, molecules and solids. In nuclear physics, there has been basically no application of OF-DFT so far, as the Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been widely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-03 Gianluca Colo' , Kouichi Hagino

Harnessing spin and orbital angular momentum is a fundamental concept in condensed matter physics, materials science, and quantum-device applications. In particular, the search for new phenomena that generate a flow of spin angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Hiroki Hayashi , Dongwook Go , Yuriy Mokrousov , Kazuya Ando

The key formula for computing the orbital magnetization of a crystalline system has been recently found [D. Ceresoli, T. Thonhauser, D. Vanderbilt, R. Resta, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 74}, 024408 (2006)]: it is given in terms of a Brillouin-zone…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-19 D. Ceresoli , R. Resta