Structural chirality and electronic chirality in quantum materials

B Yan - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by
nonsuperimposable mirror images for a material such as DNA. In physics, however, chirality …

Monopole-like orbital-momentum locking and the induced orbital transport in topological chiral semimetals

Q Yang, J Xiao, I Robredo… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The interplay between chirality and topology nurtures many exotic electronic properties. For
instance, topological chiral semimetals display multifold chiral fermions that manifest …

Harnessing orbital Hall effect in spin-orbit torque MRAM

R Gupta, C Bouard, F Kammerbauer… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Abstract Spin-Orbit Torque (SOT) Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) devices offer
improved power efficiency, nonvolatility, and performance compared to static RAM, making …

First-principles calculation of orbital Hall effect by Wannier interpolation: Role of orbital dependence of the anomalous position

D Go, HW Lee, PM Oppeneer, S Blügel, Y Mokrousov - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The position operator in a Bloch representation acquires a gauge correction in the
momentum space on top of the canonical position, which is called the anomalous position …

Orbitronics: Mechanisms, Materials and Devices

P Wang, F Chen, Y Yang, S Hu, Y Li… - Advanced Electronic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Spintronics has been extensively explored over the past decades, focusing primarily on the
spin characteristic of the electron, while the orbital feature of the electron has been …

Orbital relaxation length from first-principles scattering calculations

M Rang, PJ Kelly - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
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 …

Efficient noncollinear antiferromagnetic state switching induced by the orbital Hall effect in chromium

H Xie, N Zhang, Y Ma, X Chen, L Ke, Y Wu - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recently, orbital Hall current has attracted attention as an alternative method to switch the
magnetization of ferromagnets. Here we present our findings on electrical switching of the …

Observation of a non-trivial in-plane field-like torque due to out-of-plane spin polarization in Al/Ni80Fe20/AlOx heterostructures

R Mudgal, P Gupta, S Das, PK Muduli - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We performed spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance studies on the Al/NiFe/AlO x
heterostructure. We observed a large non-trivial field-like torque, τ FL z⁠, due to the out-of …

Bulk and Interface Effects Based on Rashba-like States in Ti and Ru Nanoscale-Thick Films: Implications for Orbital-Charge Conversion in Spintronic Devices

ES Santos, JE Abrão, JL Costa… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The interplay between spin currents and orbital momentum currents is fundamental in the
emerging field of orbitronics, particularly when considering nanoscale features. Unlike spin …

Investigation of spin-orbit torque efficiency in CuBi alloys

K Tatsuoka, M Aoki, M Funato, R Ohshima, Y Ando… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Experimental demonstration of substantially large and negative spin Hall angle in CuBi
alloys, in which diluted Bi atoms are doped into Cu, sheds light on a novel aspect of spin …