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In spintronics, the spin Hall effect has been widely used to generate and detect spin currents in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling such as Pt and Ta. Recently, its orbital counterpart has drawn attention as a new tool to generate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 M. Xochitl Aguilar-Pujol , Isabel C. Arango , Eoin Dolan , You Ba , Marco Gobbi , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

We investigate the orbit-to-charge conversion in YIG/Pt/nonmagnetic material (NM) trilayer heterostructures. With the additional Ru layer on the top of YIG/Pt stacks, the charge current signal increases nearly an order of magnitude in both…

A recent paper [Go $\textit{et al}$., Phys. Rev. Lett. $\textbf{121}$, 086602 (2018)] proposed that the intrinsic orbital Hall effect (OHE) can emerge from momentum-space orbital texture in centrosymmetric materials. In searching for real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Daegeun Jo , Dongwook Go , Hyun-Woo Lee

The intrinsic orbital Hall effect (OHE), the orbital counterpart of the spin Hall effect, was predicted and studied theoretically for more than one decade, yet to be observed in experiments. Here we propose a strategy to convert the orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Jiewen Xiao , Yizhou Liu , Binghai Yan

The highly efficient torques generated by 3D topological insulators make them a favourable platform for faster and more efficient magnetic memory devices. Recently, research into harnessing orbital angular momentum in orbital torques has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 James H. Cullen , Hong Liu , Dimitrie Culcer

We demonstrate the formation of orbital and spin Hall effects (OHE/SHE) in the 1T phase of non-magnetic transition metal dichalcogenides. With the aid of density functional theory calculations and model Hamiltonian studies on MX$_2$ (M =…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Pratik Sahu , Jatin Kumar Bidika , Bubunu Biswal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

We report that due to the orbital Hall effect, orbital pumping effects can occur in materials with weak spin-orbit coupling. Moreover, there is a positive correlation between the strength of the orbital Hall effect and the size of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Yuejie Zhang , Jinjun Ding , Tao Liu , Xiaofei Yang , Taoyuan Ouyang , Shi Chen , Yongqing Peng

5d transition metal Pt is the canonical spin Hall material for efficient generation of spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in Pt/ferromagnetic layer (FM) heterostructures. However, for a long while with tremendous engineering endeavors, the…

The Orbital Hall effect, which originates from materials with weak spin-orbit coupling, has attracted considerable interest for spin-orbitronic applications. Here, we demonstrate the inverse effect of the orbital Hall effect and observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Ping Wang , Zheng Feng , Yuhe Yang , Delin Zhang , Quancheng Liu , Zedong Xu , Zhiyan Jia , Yong Wu , Guoqiang Yu , Xiaoguang Xu , Yong Jiang

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…

The orbital-Hall effect (OHE), similarly to the spin-Hall effect (SHE), refers to the creation of a transverse flow of orbital angular momentum that is induced by a longitudinally applied electric field. For systems in which the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Luis M. Canonico , Tarik P. Cysne , Tatiana G. Rappoport , R. B. Muniz

The spin Hall effect originating from 5d heavy transition metal thin films such as Pt, Ta, and W is able to generate efficient spin-orbit torques that can switch adjacent magnetic layers. This mechanism can serve as an alternative to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-30 Wei-Bang Liao , Tian-Yue Chen , Yari Ferrante , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Chi-Feng Pai

Orbital Hall effect was recently discovered as a novel pathway for driving magnetic moment. However, the integration of orbital Hall effect in magnetic memories suffers from low orbital-to-spin conversion efficiency and incompatibility with…

We study the origin of the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and the d-orbital Hall conductivity (OHC) in Pt based on a multiorbital tight-binding model with spin-orbit interaction. We find that the SHC reaches 1000 \hbar/e\Omega cm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kontani , M. Naito , D. S. Hirashima , K. Yamada , J. Inoue

In transition metals and their compounds, the orbital degrees of freedom gives rise to an orbital current, in addition to the ordinary spin and charge currents. We reveal that considerably large spin and anomalous Hall effects (SHE and AHE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kontani , T. Tanaka , D. S. Hirashima , K. Yamada , J. Inoue

Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) has emerged as a promising method for achieving energy-efficient magnetisation switching in advanced spintronic devices. Over the past two decades, researchers have primarily focused on enhancing spin…

The orbital Hall effect (OHE) designates the generation of a charge-neutral flow of orbital angular momentum transverse to an initial charge current. Recent theoretical investigations suggest that transition metals display sizable OHE,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Armando Pezo , Diego Garcia Ovalle , Aurelien Manchon

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 spin Hall effect (SHE) enables efficient electrical manipulation of magnetization through the spin Hall current \left(\mathbit{J}_{\mathbit{SHE}}\right), advancing energy-efficient spintronics. In parallel, the orbital Hall effect (OHE)…

The orbital Hall effect can generate currents of angular momentum more efficiently than the spin Hall effect in most metals. However, so far, it has only been understood as a steady state phenomenon. In this theoretical study, the orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-08 Oliver Busch , Franziska Ziolkowski , Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig , Jürgen Henk