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We demonstrate spin pumping, i.e. the generation of a pure spin current by precessing magnetization, without application of microwave radiation commonly used in spin pumping experiments. We use femtosecond laser pulses to simultaneously…

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 generation of spin-orbital currents is crucial for advancing energy-efficient spintronic devices. Here, the intricate process involved in the generation and conversion of spin and orbital to charge currents in Zr(t=2, 3, 4.5, 6,…

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

Spin Hall effect, an electric generation of spin current, allows for efficient control of magnetization. Recent theory revealed that orbital Hall effect creates orbital current, which can be much larger than spin Hall-induced spin current.…

Quantized charge pumping in one-dimensional chiral wires has been widely studied in the context of topological physics in a (1+1)-dimensional synthetic space, yet the role of orbital and spin degrees of freedom in such topological pumps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Esmaeil Taghizadeh Sisakht , Uiseok Jeong , Xiao jiang , Jinseok Oh , Yizhou Liu , Binghai Yan , Noejung Park

Spin pumping is a widely recognized method to generate the spin current in the spintronics, which is acknowledged as a fundamentally dynamic process equivalent to the spin-transfer torque. In this work, we theoretically verify that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Chunlei Zhang , Jianing Wang , Chendong Jin , Haiyan Xia , Jianbo Wang , Qingfang Liu

We propose three different mechanisms for pumping spin-polarized currents in a ballistic circuit using a time-dependent magnetic field acting on an asymmetrically connected quantum ring at half filling. The first mechanism works thanks to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Michele Cini , Stefano Bellucci

The electrical manipulation of magnetization by current-induced spin torques has given access to realize a plethora of ultralow power and fast spintronic devices such as non-volatile magnetic memories, spin-torque nano-oscillators, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-21 Yuya Tazaki , Yuito Kageyama , Hiroki Hayashi , Takashi Harumoto , Tenghua Gao , Ji Shi , Kazuya Ando

The emergence of an orbital angular momentum (OAM) response to a charge current holds promise for technological applications, allowing electrical control of magnetization dynamics. Often, the OAM current is invoked in explaining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Niels Henrik Aase , Erik Wegner Hodt , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Asle Sudbø , Jacob Linder

We experimentally investigate spin-orbit torques and spin pumping in NiFe/Pt bilayers with direct and interrupted interfaces. The damping-like and field-like torques are simultaneously measured with spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance tuned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Tianxiang Nan , Satoru Emori , Carl T. Boone , Xinjun Wang , Trevor M. Oxholm , John G. Jones , Brandon M. Howe , Gail J. Brown , Nian X. Sun

We study theoretically the effect of a rotating electric field on a diffusive nanowire and find an effect that is analogous to spin pumping, which refers to the generation of spin through a rotating magnetic field. The electron spin couples…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Jacob Linder

Understanding the mechanism driving magnetization switching in spin-orbit-torque-assisted devices remains a subject of debate. While originally attributed to the spin Hall effect and spin Rashba-Edelstein effect, recent discoveries related…

The surprising discovery of ultrafast demagnetization -- where electric field of femtosecond laser pulse couples to electrons of a ferromagnetic (FM) layer causing its magnetization vector {\em to shrink while not rotating}, is also assumed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Jalil Varela-Manjarres , Ali Kefayati , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch , John Q. Xiao , Branislav K. Nikolic

Spintronics is an analogue to electronics where spin of the electron rather than its charge is functionally controlled for devices. The generation and detection of spin current without ferromagnetic or exotic/scarce materials are two the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Paul C Lou , Sandeep Kumar

Pumps are transport mechanisms in which direct currents result from a cyclic evolution of the potential. As Thouless has shown, the pumping process can have topological origins, when considering the motion of quantum particles in spatially…

Orbital current, defined as the orbital character of Bloch states in solids, can ballistically travel with larger coherence length through a broader range of materials than its spin counterpart, facilitating a robust, higher density and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-17 Sobhan Subhra Mishra , James Lourembam , Dennis Jing Xiong Lin , Ranjan Singh

We investigate the effect of orbital current arising from orbital Hall effect in thin films of Nb and Ti in ohmic contact with ferromagnetic Ni in the second harmonic longitudinal and transverse voltages in response to an a.c. current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Dhananjaya Mahapatra , Abu Bakkar Miah , HareKrishna Bhunia , Soumik Aon , Partha Mitra

Spin pumping is the emission of a spin current by a magnetization dynamics while spin transfer stands for the excitation of magnetization by spin currents. Using Onsager's reciprocity relations we prove that spin pumping and spin-transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Paul J. Kelly

Modern information technologies rely on controlling the flow of electrons through their charge and spin. A rapidly emerging alternative is to use the orbital motion of electrons, the way they circulate around atomic sites as a new carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Sobhan Subhra Mishra , Ranjan Singh