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Optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) provides an additional dimension for photons to carry information in high-capacity optical communication. Although the practical needs have intrigued the generations of miniaturized devices to…

We use first-principles scattering calculations based upon wave-function matching and implemented with a tight-binding MTO basis to evaluate the orbital Hall conductivity $\sigma_{\rm oH}$ for Ti, V, Cr, Cu and Pt metals with…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Max Rang , Paul J. Kelly

We show theoretically that both intrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE) and orbital Hall effect (OHE) can arise in centrosymmetric systems through momentum-space orbital texture, which is ubiquitous even in centrosymmetric systems unlike spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Dongwook Go , Daegeun Jo , Changyoung Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee

Electron vortex beams have been predicted to enable atomic scale magnetic information measurement, via transfer of orbital angular momentum. Research so far has focussed on developing production techniques and applications of these beams.…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-21 L. Clark , A. Béché , G. Guzzinati , J. Verbeeck

The field of orbitronics has emerged with great potential to impact information technology by enabling environmentally friendly electronic devices. The main electronic degree of freedom at play is the orbital angular momentum, which can…

Free electrons can possess an intrinsic orbital angular momentum, similar to those in an electron cloud, upon free-space propagation. The wavefront corresponding to the electron's wavefunction forms a helical structure with a number of…

We investigate the optical response induced by a d.c. current flowing in a nonmagnetic material that lacks inversion symmetry. In this class of materials, the flowing current experiences a nonlinear Hall effect and induces a nonequilibrium…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-25 Diego Garcia Ovalle , Armando Pezo , Aurélien Manchon

It is shown that an electric field applied to p-doped graphane generates a dissipationless orbital momentum Hall current. In the clean limit the corresponding Hall conductivity is independent of the concentration of holes. The Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-25 I. V. Tokatly

Free electrons with a helical phase front, referred to as "twisted" electrons, possess an orbital angular momentum (OAM) and, hence, a quantized magnetic dipole moment along their propagation direction. This intrinsic magnetic moment can be…

A recent paper [Go $\textit{et al}$., Phys. Rev. Lett. $\textbf{121}$, 086602 (2018)] proposed that the intrinsic orbital Hall effect (OHE) can emerge from momentum-space orbital texture in centrosymmetric materials. In searching for real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Daegeun Jo , Dongwook Go , Hyun-Woo Lee

The orbital Hall effect (OHE) in light transition metals offers a promising route to generate orbital torques for efficient magnetization control, providing an alternative to conventional spin Hall effect approaches that rely on heavy…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Gaurav K. Shukla , Yoshio Miura , Mayank K. Singh , Shinji Isogami

Quantum complementarity states that particles, e.g. electrons, can exhibit wave-like properties such as diffraction and interference upon propagation. \textit{Electron waves} defined by a helical wavefront are referred to as twisted…

Many methods now exist to prepare free electrons into orbital angular momentum states, and the predicted applications of these electron states as probes of materials and scattering processes are numerous. The development of electron orbital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Tyler R. Harvey , Benjamin J. McMorran

Several experimental groups have recently obtained the so called vortex electrons (electrons with orbital angular momentum (OAM) of l = 100h) with energies of 300 keV. The gyromagnetic ratio of such electrons becomes proportional to the OAM…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Anatoly S. Konkov , Alexander P. Potylitsyn , Marina S. Polonskaya

State-of-the-art developments in magnetic devices rely on manufacturing faster, more efficient memory elements. A significant development in this direction has been the discovery of orbital torques, which employ the orbital angular momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 James H. Cullen , Zhanning Wang , Dimitrie Culcer

The recent demonstration of electron vortex beams has opened up the new possibility of studying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the interaction between electron beams and matter. To this aim, methods to analyze the OAM of an electron beam…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-18 Giulio Guzzinati , Laura Clark , Armand Béché , Jo Verbeeck

Recent progress in orbitronics reveals the possibility of using orbit current as an information carrier. The interconversion between orbit currents and charge currents is crucial for orbit information processing. Although orbit currents can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Yong Xu , Fan Zhang , Yongshan Liu , Renyou Xu , Yuhao Jiang , Houyi Cheng , Albert Fert , Weisheng Zhao

Our investigation reveals a groundbreaking discovery of a negative inverse orbital Hall effect (IOHE) in Ge thin films. We employed the innovative orbital pumping technique where spin-orbital coupled current is injected into Ge films using…

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

Recently, a new device to measure the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) electronic spectrum after elastic/inelastic scattering in a transmission electron microscope has been introduced. We modified the theoretical framework needed to describe…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-28 Matteo Zanfrognini , Enzo Rotunno , Stefano Frabboni , Alicia Sit , Ebrahim Karimi , Ulrich Hohenester , Vincenzo Grillo

In transition metals and their compounds, the orbital degrees of freedom gives rise to an orbital current, in addition to the ordinary spin and charge currents. We reveal that considerably large spin and anomalous Hall effects (SHE and AHE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kontani , T. Tanaka , D. S. Hirashima , K. Yamada , J. Inoue