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Orbitronics explores the control and manipulation of electronic orbital angular momentum in solid-state systems, opening new pathways for information processing and storage. One significant advantage of orbitronics over spintronics is that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Tarik P. Cysne , Luis M. Canonico , Marcio Costa , R. B. Muniz , Tatiana G. Rappoport

Current-induced torques originating from earth-abundant 3d elements offer a promising avenue for low-cost and sustainable spintronic memory and logic applications. Recently, orbital currents -- transverse orbital angular momentum flow in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-03 Silvia Damerio , Can O. Avci

Simultaneous control of structural and physical properties via applied electrical current poses a key, new research topic and technological significance. Studying the spin-orbit-coupled antiferromagnet Ca2RuO4, with 3% Mn doping to weaken…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-18 Hengdi Zhao , Bing Hu , Feng Ye , Christina Hoffmann , Itamar Kimchi , Gang Cao

Spintronics is a field of electronics based on using the electron spin instead of its charge. The recent advance in the manipulation of pure spin currents, i.e. angular momentum transfer not associated to conventional charge currents, has…

In experiments and applications usually the spin magnetic moment of magnons is considered. In this Paper we identify an additional degree of freedom of magnons: an \emph{orbital} magnetic moment brought about by spin-orbit coupling.Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-16 Robin R. Neumann , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

Had magnetic monopoles been ubiquitous as electrons are, we would probably have had a different form of matter, and power plants based on currents of these magnetic charges would have been a familiar scene of modern technology. Magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-17 Mohamed Azzouz

We study the generation of non-equilibrium spin currents in systems with spatially-inhomogeneous magnetic potentials. For sufficiently high current densities, the spin polarization can be transported over distances significantly exceeding…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivar Martin

In gyrotropic crystals, an oscillating magnetic field induces a charge response known as the gyrotropic magnetic current. While its conventional origin is attributed to magnetic field modified band energy and shift in the Fermi-surface, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Koushik Ghorai , Sankar Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

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

The orbital Hall effect generates a current of orbital angular momentum perpendicular to a charge current. Experiments suggest that this orbital current decays on a long length scale that is of the order of the spin flip diffusion length or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Max Rang , Paul J. Kelly

In this work, we explore macroscopic transport phenomena associated with a rotational system in the presence of an external orthogonal electromagnetic field. Simply based on the lowest Landau level approximation, we derive nontrivial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Gaoqing Cao

Converting magnetization spin to orbital current often relies on strong spin-orbit interaction that may cause additional angular momentum dissipation. We report that coherent magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructures can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Chengyuan Cai , Hanchen Wang , Tao Yu

We use quantum mechanical scattering calculations implemented in a basis of tight-binding muffin-tin orbitals to calculate nonequilibrium spin and orbital currents in transition metals with a view to understanding the length scale on which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Max Rang , Paul J. Kelly

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

Quantum oxide materials possess a vast range of properties stemming from the interplay between the lattice, charge, spin and orbital degrees of freedom, in which electron correlations often play an important role. Historically, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-10 Felix Trier , Paul Noël , Joo-Von Kim , Jean-Philippe Attané , Laurent Vila , Manuel Bibes

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

Spin-Orbitronics leverages the spin and orbital degrees of freedom in solids for information processing. The orbital Edelstein effect and orbital Hall effect, where the charge current induces a nonequilibrium orbital angular momentum, offer…

Circulating orbital currents produced by the spin-orbit interaction for a single electron spin in a quantum dot are explicitly evaluated at zero magnetic field, along with their effect on the total magnetic moment (spin and orbital) of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 J. van Bree , A. Yu. Silov , P. M. Koenraad , M. E. Flatté

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

This paper aims to investigate the spin dependent transport properties in hybrid nanoribbons, using the non equilibrium Greens function method. The effects of temperature gradient between the left and right leads, the ferromagnetic exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Zainab Gholami , Farhad Khoeini