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Spin-orbitronics, based on both spin and orbital angular momentum, presents a promising pathway for energy-efficient memory and logic devices. Recent studies have demonstrated the emergence of orbital currents in light transition metals…

The theory of the orbital Hall effect (OHE), a transverse flow of orbital angular momentum in response to an electric field, has concentrated overwhelmingly on intrinsic mechanisms. Here, using a quantum kinetic formulation, we determine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Hong Liu , Dimitrie Culcer

We propose a general theory of charge, spin, and orbital diffusion based on Keldysh formalism. Our findings indicate that the diffusivity of orbital angular momentum in metals is much lower than that of spin or charge due to the strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Xiaobai Ning , A. Pezo , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Weisheng Zhao , Kyung-Jin Lee , Aurelien Manchon

We introduce a previously unknown spin-related transport phenomenon, consisting in a transformation (swapping) of spin currents, in which the spin direction and the direction of flow are interchanged. Swapping is due to the spin-orbit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-26 Maria B. Lifshits , Michel I. Dyakonov

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

A brief review is given on the spin Hall effect, where an external electric field induces a transverse spin current. It has been recognized over 30 years that such effect occurs due to impurities in the presence of spin-orbit coupling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shuichi Murakami

Using orbital angular momentum (OAM) currents in nanoelectronics, for example, for magnetization manipulation via spin-orbit torque (SOT), represents a growing field known as "spin-orbitronics". Here, using the density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Poonam Kumari , Cyrille Barreteau , Alexander Smogunov

The spin-orbit interaction in a solid couples the spin of an electron to its momentum. This coupling gives rise to mutual conversion between spin and charge currents: the direct and inverse spin Hall effects. The spin Hall effects have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Kazuya Ando , Eiji Saitoh

We propose a mechanism of torque generation by injection of an orbital current, which we call $\textit{orbital torque}$. In a magnetic bilayer consisting of a nonmagnet (NM) and a ferromagnet (FM), we consider a situation where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Dongwook Go , Hyun-Woo Lee

We investigate the effect of an electrical current on the attenuation length of a 900 nm wavelength spin-wave in a permalloy/Pt bilayer using propagating spin-wave spectroscopy. The modification of the spin-wave relaxation rate is linear in…

We investigate a generalized multi-orbital tight-binding model on a triangular lattice, a system prevalent in a wide range of two-dimensional materials, and particularly relevant for simulating transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Luis M. Canonico , Jose H. García , Tatiana G. Rappoport

Reversible spin Hall effect comprising the "direct" and "inverse" spin Hall effects was successfully detected at room temperature. This experimental demonstration proves the fundamental relations called Onsager reciprocal relations between…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Kimura , Y. Otani , T. Sato , S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

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 current--a flow of electron spins without a charge current--is an ideal information carrier free from Joule heating for electronic devices. The celebrated spin Hall effect, which arises from the relativistic spin-orbit coupling,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 Makoto Naka , Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose , Yuki Yanagi , Yukitoshi Motome , Hitoshi Seo

Charge-to-spin conversion in inhomogeneous systems is studied theoretically. We consider free electrons subject to impurities with spin-orbit interaction and with spatially modulated distribution, and calculate spin accumulation and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 T. Funato , H. Kohno

Orbital angular momentum has recently emerged as an important carrier of angular momentum in solids, offering new pathways for spin orbitronic functionality beyond conventional spin transport. Here, we investigate the orbital Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Abhishek Erram , Akanksha Chouhan , Ashwin A. Tulapurkar

We examine the evolution of paraxial beams carrying intrinsic spin and orbital angular momenta (AM) in gradient-index media. A parabolic-type equation is derived which describes the beam diffraction in curvilinear coordinates accompanying…

Optics · Physics 2009-01-25 K. Y. Bliokh , A. S. Desyatnikov

Employing unbiased large-scale time-dependent density-matrix renormalization-group simulations, we demonstrate the generation of a charge-current vortex via spin injection in the Rashba system. The spin current is polarized perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Florian Lange , Satoshi Ejima , Junji Fujimoto , Tomonori Shirakawa , Holger Fehske , Seiji Yunoki , Sadamichi Maekawa

We show that the Chern-Simons-Ginzburg-Landau theory of the quantum Hall effect needs a modification, because the order parameter in that theory carries an intrinsic orbital angular momentum. This quantum number contains additional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 D. H. Lee , X. G. Wen

Despite recent advances in orbitronics, generating out-of-plane orbital torques essential for field-free deterministic switching of perpendicular magnetization remains a key challenge. Here, we propose a strategy to produce such…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-14 Hui Wang , Xukun Feng , Jin Cao , Huiying Liu , Weibo Gao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Lay Kee Ang