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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

Despite recent advances in orbitronics, the influence of disorder on the orbital Hall effect and orbital relaxation mechanisms remains poorly understood. In this work, we numerically investigate the role of disorder in orbital transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Hyun-Woo Lee , Tatiana G. Rappoport

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

An electric current flowing in Pt, a material with strong spin-orbit coupling, leads to spins accumulating at the interfaces by virtue of the spin Hall effect and interfacial charge-spin conversion. We measure the influence of these…

We study inverse spin and orbital Hall effects in 19 transition metals using spin-pumping driven by ferromagnetic resonance. Spin-to-charge conversion was measured in YIG/X(5), while orbital-to-charge conversion was probed in YIG/Pt(2)/X(5)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 J. L. Costa , E. Santos , J. B. S. Mendes , A. Azevedo

Conversion of charge to orbital angular momentum through the orbital Hall effect (OHE) holds transformative potential for the development of orbital-based electronics, however, it is challenging to directly observe the electrically…

Spin and electric Hall currents are calculated numerically in a two-dimensional mesoscopic system with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling by means of the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. It is found that both electric and spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jian Li , Liangbin Hu , Shun-Qing Shen

The quantum Hall effect emerges when two-dimensional samples are subjected to strong magnetic fields at low temperatures: Topologically protected edge states cause a quantized Hall conductivity in multiples of $e^2/h$. Here we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-11 Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig

The spin Hall effect depends crucially on the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling of the energy band. Because of the smaller spin-orbit coupling in silicon, the spin Hall effect is expected to be much reduced. We show that the electric field in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We report observation of intrinsic inverse spin Hall effect in un-doped GaAs multiple quantum wells with a sample temperature of 10 K. A transient ballistic pure spin current is injected by a pair of laser pulses through quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 Lalani K. Werake , Brian A. Ruzicka , Hui Zhao

Spin currents in ferromagnets afford diverse functionalities. We evaluate the extrinsic spin Hall effects of magnetic impurity scattering in ferromagnetic metals. We show that spin-dependent scattering can provide a high spin current…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-12 Yuta Yahagi , Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma

The nonlinear Hall effect is a new type of Hall effect that has recently attracted significant attention. For the physical origin of the nonlinear Hall effect, while orbital magnetization has long been hypothesized to underpin the nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Zesheng Zhang , Xin-Zhi Li , Wen-Yu He

Orbital angular momentum transport has emerged as a promising route for manipulating magnetic devices, yet its generation has largely relied on the conventional orbital Hall effect. Here, we show that ferro-rotational order enables the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-12 Daegeun Jo , Peter M. Oppeneer

Recent discovery of orbital currents in several material platforms including light element metals has opened new possibilities for exploring novel transport phenomena and applications to spin-orbitronic devices. These orbital currents,…

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

Modern spintronics relies on the generation of spin currents through spin-orbit coupling. The spin-current generation has been believed to be triggered by current-induced orbital dynamics, which governs the angular momentum transfer from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Hiroki Hayashi , Daegeun Jo , Dongwook Go , Tenghua Gao , Satoshi Haku , Yuriy Mokrousov , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kazuya Ando

Spin Hall effects are a collection of relativistic spin-orbit coupling phenomena in which electrical currents can generate transverse spin currents and vice versa. Although first observed only a decade ago, these effects are already…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-13 Jairo Sinova , Sergio O. Valenzuela , J. Wunderlich , C. H. Back , T. Jungwirth

Generation of spin current from lattice distortion dynamics in metals is studied with special attention on the effect of spin-orbit coupling. Treating the lattice distortion by local coordinate transformation, we calculate spin current and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Takumi Funato , Hiroshi Kohno

We generalize the spin Hall angle to laser pulses of finite frequencies in the linear response regime and predict a giant optical spin Hall effect. Namely, for certain transition metal elements, at particular frequencies, the spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 P. Elliott , S. Shallcross , Sangeeta Sharma

We investigate the effect of random defect scattering on the orbital Hall effect by solving a quantum Boltzmann equation. Depending on the specific orbital textures, diffuse scattering by an \emph{arbitrarily} weak disorder can affect and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Ping Tang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer