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Spin-orbit coupling is a fundamental mechanism that connects the spin of a charge carrier with its momentum. Likewise, in the optical domain, a synthetic spin-orbit coupling is accessible, for instance, by engineering optical anisotropies…

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 at play is the orbital angular momentum, which can…

Increasing demand for computational power has initiated the hunt for energy efficient and stable memory devices. This is the overarching motivation behind the recent rise of \textit{orbitronics}, which looks to harness the orbital angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 James H. Cullen , Dimitrie Culcer

The quantum spin Hall effect has been observed in topological insulators using spin-orbit coupling as the probe, but it has not yet been observed in a metal. An experiment is proposed to measure the quantum spin Hall effect of an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Aiying Zhao , Qiang Gu , Timothy J. Haugan , Thomas J. Bullard , Richard A. Klemm

We investigate the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and the d-orbital Hall conductivity (OHC) in metallic d-electron systems, by focusing on the t_{2g}-orbital tight-binding model for Sr2MO4 (M=Ru,Rh,Mo). The conductivities obtained…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kontani , T. Tanaka , D. S. Hirashima , K. Yamada , J. Inoue

The orbital Hall effect provides an alternative means to the spin Hall effect to convert a charge current into a flow of angular momentum. Recently, compelling signatures of orbital Hall effects have been identified in 3d transition metals.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Giacomo Sala , Pietro Gambardella

Controlling/storing information carriers, such as electron charge and spin, is key for modern information society, and significant efforts have been paid made to establish novel technologies at the nanoscale. The rise of Si-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-24 R. Matsumoto , R. Ohshima , M. Funato , Y. Ando , Y. Mokrousov , D. Go , M. Shiraishi

We report a comprehensive experimental investigation of orbital-to-charge conversion in metallic and semiconductor materials, emphasizing the fundamental roles of the inverse orbital Hall effect (IOHE) and the inverse orbital Rashba effect.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 E. Santos , J. L. Costa , R. L. Rodriguez-Suarez , J. B. S. Mendes , A. Azevedo

It is generally believed that spin-orbit coupling (SOC) follows Z4 (atomic number) dependence and becomes significant only in heavy elements. Consequently, SOC in 3d transition metals should be negligible given their small Z. Using dynamic…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-08 Chunhui Du , Hailong Wang , Fengyuan Yang , P. Chris Hammel

With a view to electrical spin manipulation and quantum computing applications, recent significant attention has been devoted to semiconductor hole systems, which have very strong spin-orbit interactions. However, experimentally measuring,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Hong Liu , Elizabeth Marcellina , Alexander R. Hamilton , Dimitrie Culcer

The inverse orbital Hall effect (IOHE) has recently attracted considerable attention as an emerging mechanism for terahertz (THz) emission based on ultrafast angular-momentum-to-charge conversion. Most experimental studies have focused on…

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a spin-orbit interaction to a long-wave-length electromagnetic excitation. We observe that the transverse electric field creates spin polarization perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shnirman , Ivar Martin

Anomalous Hall effect (AHE), occurring in materials with broken time-reversal symmetry, epitomizes the intricate interplay between magnetic order and orbital motions of electrons[1-4]. In two dimensional (2D) systems, AHE is always coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Qingxin Li , Hua Fan , Min Li , Yinghai Xu , Junwei Song , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie , James Hone , Cory Dean , Yue Zhao , Jianpeng Liu , Lei Wang

High density data storage and spin-logic devices require highly efficient all-electric control of spin moments. So far, charge-to-spin conversion through the spin Hall effect (SHE) highly limits to d-orbital materials associated with strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-28 Gen Li , Ying Zhang , Xiaoguang Xu , Lei Shen , Zheng Feng , Kangkang Meng , Ang Li , Lu Cheng , Kang He , Wei Tan , Yong Wu , Yihong Wu , Yong Jiang

The nonlinear Hall effect is a new type of Hall effect that has recently attracted significant attention. For the physical origin of the nonlinear Hall effect, while orbital magnetization has long been hypothesized to underpin the nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Zesheng Zhang , Xin-Zhi Li , Wen-Yu He

The spin polarization induced by the spin Hall effect (SHE) in thin films typically points out of the plane. This is rooted on the specific symmetries of traditionally studied systems, not in a fundamental constraint. Recently, experiments…

We report the experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional (2D) hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The 2D hole layer is a part of a p-n junction light-emitting diode with a specially designed co-planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Joerg Wunderlich , Bernd Kaestner , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

The spin-Hall conductivity in spatially-homogeneous two-dimensional electron systems described by the spin-orbit Hamiltonian \hbar \Omega_p \sigma is presented as a sum of the universal part Me/8 \pi \hbar determined by the Berry phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. E. Raichev

The interplay between chirality and topology nurtures many exotic electronic properties. For instance, topological chiral semimetals display multifold chiral fermions that manifest nontrivial topological charge and spin texture. They are an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Qun Yang , Jiewen Xiao , Iñigo Robredo , Maia G. Vergniory , Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser

Based on a rigorous quantum-kinetic approach, spin-charge coupled drift-diffusion equations are derived for a strongly confined two-dimensional hole gas. An electric field leads to a coupling between the spin and charge degrees of freedom.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin