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Ohmic currents induced prior to decoupling are investigated in a standard transport model accounting both for the expansion of the background geometry as well as of its relativistic inhomogeneities. The relative balance of the Ohmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-13 Massimo Giovannini , Nguyen Quynh Lan

Atomtronics is a relatively new subfield of atomic physics that aims to realize the device behavior of electronic components in ultracold atom-optical systems. The fact that these systems are coherent makes them particularly interesting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 R. A. Pepino

We propose a general theory of charge, spin, and orbital diffusion based on Keldysh formalism. Our findings indicate that the diffusivity of orbital angular momentum in metals is much lower than that of spin or charge due to the strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Xiaobai Ning , A. Pezo , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Weisheng Zhao , Kyung-Jin Lee , Aurelien Manchon

Orbital currents have recently emerged as a promising tool to achieve electrical control of the magnetization in thin-film ferromagnets. Efficient orbital-to-spin conversion is required in order to torque the magnetization. Here we show…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-01 Shilei Ding , Min-Gu Kang , William Legrand , Pietro Gambardella

Recent interest in orbital angular momentum has led to a rapid expansion of research on spin-orbit coupling effects in solids, while also highlighting significant technical challenges. The breaking of rotational symmetry renders the orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Bumseop Kim , Noejung Park , Kyoung-Whan Kim

Chiral materials have garnered significant attention in the field of condensed matter physics. Nevertheless, the magnetic moment induced by the chiral spatial motion of electrons in helical materials, such as elemental Te and Se, remains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Bumseop Kim , Dongbin Shin , Seon Namgung , Noejung Park , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Jeongwoo Kim

We have described the electron spin dynamics in the presence of Rashba spin- orbit interaction and disorder using the spin-density matrix method. We showed that in the Born approximation in the scattering amplitude the spin current is zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Khaetskii

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

Persistent current, or "flow without friction", as well as quantum vortices are the hallmarks of superfluidity. Recently a very long-lived persistent flow of atoms has been experimentally observed in Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a…

Orbitronics has recently emerged as a very active research topic after several proposals aiming to exploit the orbital degree of freedom for charge-free electronics. In this communication, we investigate orbital transport in selected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Armando Pezo , Diego García Ovalle , Aurélien Manchon

We show that the antiferromagnetic state commonly observed in the phase diagrams of the iron-based superconductors necessarily triggers loop currents characterized by charge transfer between different Fe $ 3d $ orbitals. This effect is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-17 Markus Klug , Jian Kang , Rafael M. Fernandes , Jörg Schmalian

The orbital angular momentum of electrons offers a promising, yet largely unexplored, degree of freedom for ultrafast, energy-efficient information processing. As the foundation of orbitronics, understanding how orbital currents propagate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Tongyang Guan , Jiahao Liu , Wentao Qin , Yongwei Cui , Shunjia Wang , Yizheng Wu , Zhensheng Tao

Spintronics is the ability of injecting, manipulating and detecting electron spins into solid state systems. Molecular-electronics investigates the possibility of making electronic devices using organic molecules. Traditionally these two…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Sanvito , Alexandre Reily Rocha

We investigate the persistent spin currents in one- and two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction in thermodynamics equilibrium at absolute zero temperature. The persistent spin current is the intrinsic one which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-18 Xiang Zhou , Cheng-Zheng Hu , Zhenyu Zhang , Ling Miao , Xia Wang

Carrying information using generation and detection of the orbital current, instead of the spin current, is an emerging field of research, where the orbital Hall effect (OHE) is an important ingredient. Here, we propose a new mechanism of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Sayantika Bhowal , S. Satpathy

The semiclassical Boltzmann transport equation of charged, massive fermions in a rotating frame of reference, in the presence of external electromagnetic fields is solved in the relaxation time approach to establish the distribution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 O. F. Dayi , E. Yunt

Bloch oscillations are a phenomenon well known from quantum mechanics where electrons in a lattice experience an oscillatory motion in the presence of an electric field gradient. Here, we report on Bloch oscillations of hybrid light-matter…

We show that electron interaction with the crystal lattice imposes stringent symmetry constrains on the orbital moment propagation. We present examples that elucidate the underlying mechanisms and reveal an additional effect of ultrafast…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-20 S. Urazhdin

Pure spin currents carry information in quantum spintronics and could play an essential role in the next generation low-energy-consumption electronics. Here we theoretically predict that the magnetic field can induce a quantum spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We propose a new orbital controlled model to explain the gate field induced switching of current in a semiconducting PbS-nanowire junction. A single particle scattering formalism in conjunction with a posteriori density functional approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Subhasish Mandal , Ranjit Pati