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Magnetization can be induced by an electric field in systems without inversion symmetry $\mathcal{P}$ and time-reversal symmetry $\mathcal{T}$. This phenomenon is called the magnetoelectric (ME) effect. The spin ME effect has been actively…
We revisit a quantum-mechanical formula of the spin magnetic quadrupole moment (MQM) in periodic crystals. Two previous attempts were inconsistent with each other; one is gauge dependent, and the other is gauge invariant. Here we define the…
We derive a quantum-mechanical formula of the orbital magnetic quadrupole moment (MQM) in periodic systems by using the gauge-covariant gradient expansion. This formula is valid for insulators and metals at zero and finite temperature. We…
We propose an orbital magnetothermal effect wherein a temperature gradient generates an orbital magnetization (OM) for Bloch electrons, and we present a unified theory for electrically and thermally induced OM, valid for both metals and…
We establish a theoretical formulation of the orbital magnetic moment in multiorbital tight-binding models, focusing on the role of the electric dipole. We demonstrate that the total magnetic moment can be decomposed into several…
We show that the orbital magneto-electric effect (OME) -- the generation of a steady-state orbital angular momentum density -- is partly the result of a nonequilibrium dipole moment generated via Zitterbewegung and proportional to the…
Electrical control of the orbital degrees of freedom is an important area of research in the emerging field of "orbitronics." Orbital {\it gyrotropic} magneto-electric effect (OGME) is the generation of an orbital magnetization in a…
We study the magnon contribution to the gravitomagnetoelectric (gravito-ME) effect, in which the magnetization is induced by a temperature gradient, in noncentrosymmetric antiferromagnetic insulators. This phenomenon is totally different…
A conventional and rotating magnetoelectric effect of a half-filled spin-electron model on a doubly decorated square lattice is investigated by exact calculations. An importance of the electron hopping and spatial orientation of the…
The magnetoelectric (ME) effect traditionally arises from complex spin-orbital interactions in multiferroic materials. In this work, we propose a distinct, intrinsic mechanism for the magnetoelectric effect in quasi-2D magnetic systems that…
We propose a nonlinear orbital magnetoelectric effect, which generates orbital magnetization quadratically in centrosymmetric materials where the linear orbital magnetoelectric effect is strictly forbidden. Using extended semiclassical…
For a twisted (vortex) Dirac particle in nonuniform electric and magnetic fields, the relativistic Foldy-Wouthuysen Hamiltonian is derived including high order terms describing new effects. The result obtained shows for the first time that…
Magnetoelectric responses are a fundamental characteristic of materials that break time-reversal and inversion symmetries (notably multiferroics) and, remarkably, of "topological insulators" in which those symmetries are unbroken. Previous…
The orbital magnetoelectric effect (OME) generically refers to the appearance of an orbital magnetization induced by an applied electric field. Here, we show that nanoribbons of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with zigzag (ZZ) edges…
Multiferroic materials have undergone extensive research in the past two decades in an effort to produce a sizable room-temperature magneto-electric (ME) effect in either exclusive or composite materials for use in a variety of electronic…
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…
The experimental studies of magnetoelectric effects in pulse magnetic field up to 250 kOe and their theoretical analysis on the basis of magnetic symmetry consideration are carried out. It is shown that the nonvanishing components of…
Recently, Berry phase in the semiclassical dynamical of Bloch electrons has been found to make a correction to the phase-space density of states and a general multi-band formula for finite-temperature orbital magnetization has been given…
We present magnetodielectric measurements in single crystals of the cubic spin-1/2 compound Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$. A magnetic field-induced electric polarization ($\vec{P}$) and a finite magnetocapacitance (MC) is observed at the onset of the…
Superconducting magnetoelectric effect, which is the current-induced magnetization in a superconductor, mainly focused on the spin magnetization in previous studies, but ignore the effect of the orbital magnetic moments carried by the…