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Quantum rings connected to ballistic circuits couple strongly to external magnetic fields if the connection is not symmetric. By analytical theory and computer simulation I show that properly connected rings can be used to pump currents in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Michele Cini

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

Comparing with the spin of electron, the electronic orbitals, which have been long ignored in non-equilibrium transport, are getting more and more attentions, due to the prediction and experimental verification of orbital Hall effect (OHE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Xin Li

Optically induced spin currents have proven to be useful in spintronics applications, allowing for sub-ps all-optical control of magnetization. However, the mechanism responsible for their generation is still heavily debated. Here we use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Tom Lichtenberg , Maarten Beens , Menno H. Jansen , Rembert A. Duine , Bert Koopmans

The out-of-plane antidamping-like orbital torque fosters great hope for high-efficiency spintronic devices. Here we report experimentally the observation of out-of-plane antidamping-like torque that could be generated by z-polarized orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Zeyang Gong , Fu Liu , Xinhong Guo , Changjun Jiang

We investigate parametric pumping of a spin-polarized current through a nearly-closed quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field. Pumping is achieved by tuning the tunnel couplings to the left and right lead - thereby operating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Blaauboer , C. M. L. Fricot

In this study, we investigate the spin and orbital densities induced by magnetization dynamics in a planar bilayer heterostructure. To do this, we employed a theory of adiabatic pumping using the Keldysh formalism and Wigner expansion. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Armando Pezo , Dongwook Go , Yuriy Mokrousov , Henri Jaffrès , Aurélien Manchon

Along with the progress of spin science and spintronics research, the flow of electron spins, (i.e. spin current), has attracted interest. New phenomena and electronic states were explained in succession using the concept of spin current.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-20 Sadamichi Maekawa , Takashi Kikkawa , Hiroyuki Chudo , Jun'ichi Ieda , Eiji Saitoh

We report on the experimental implementation of a spin pump with ultracold bosonic atoms in an optical superlattice. In the limit of isolated double wells it represents a 1D dynamical version of the quantum spin Hall effect. Starting from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-26 Christian Schweizer , Michael Lohse , Roberta Citro , Immanuel Bloch

It is known that internal energy flow in a light beam can be divided into the orbital flow, associated with the macroscopic energy redistribution within the beam, and the spin flow originating from instantaneous rotation of the field…

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

Pure spin currents are shown to be generated by an electrically controlled quantum pump applied at the edges of a topological insulator. The electric rather than the more conventional magnetic control offers several advantages and avoids,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-23 R. Citro , F. Romeo , N. Andrei

We study the DC spin current induced into an unbiased quantum spin Hall system through a two-point contacts setup with time dependent electron tunneling amplitudes. By means of two external gates, it is possible to drive a current with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Dario Ferraro , Giacomo Dolcetto , Roberta Citro , Francesco Romeo , Maura Sassetti

An unexpectedly large transient magnetization induced by circularly polarized ferroelectric phonons was recently observed in a nonmagnetic insulator SrTiO3 [Nature 628, 534 (2024)]. We use a minimal molecular orbital model to demonstrate…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-06 Sergei Urazhdin

We demonstrate a violation of local reciprocity in the interconversion between charge and orbital currents. By investigating orbital torque and orbital pumping in W/Ni bilayers, we show that the charge-orbital interconversion in the bulk of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Hisanobu Kashiki , Hiroki Hayashi , Dongwook Go , Yuriy Mokrousov , Kazuya Ando

We demonstrate that a quantum spin Hall current, spontaneously generated at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator, acts as a source of spin-pumping for a magnetic impurity with uniaxial anisotropy. One can then manipulate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Aaron Hurley , Awadhesh Narayan , Stefano Sanvito

We investigate the orbital-to-charge current conversion in CoFeB|CuO bilayers as a function of CuO thickness, employing orbital pumping via ferromagnetic resonance. The dynamic injection of orbital angular momentum into the CuO layer…

Orbital angular momentum offers a new channel for information transport in a vast set of materials. Its coherent generation and detection remain, however, largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that chiral surface acoustic waves (SAWs)…

The orbital angular momentum is a core ingredient of orbital magnetism, spin Hall effect, giant Rashba spin splitting, orbital Edelstein effect, and spin-orbit torque. However, its experimental detection is tricky. In particular, direct…

The spin-pumping mechanism is probed through a tunnelling MgO interlayer in Fe/Pt bilayers. We show by ferromagnetic resonance technique and spin-pumping experiments that spin currents can tunnel through the MgO interlayer for thickness up…