Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob
for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the …

An experimentalist's guide to the matrix element in angle resolved photoemission

S Moser - Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related …, 2017 - Elsevier
Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is commonly known as a powerful
probe of the one-electron removal spectral function in ordered solid state. With increasing …

Orbitronics: Orbital currents in solids

D Go, D Jo, HW Lee, M Kläui, Y Mokrousov - Europhysics Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In solids, electronic Bloch states are formed by atomic orbitals. While it is natural to expect
that orbital composition and information about Bloch states can be manipulated and …

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 …

Generating optical orbital angular momentum at visible wavelengths using a plasmonic metasurface

E Karimi, SA Schulz, I De Leon, H Qassim… - Light: Science & …, 2014 - nature.com
Light beams with a helical phase-front possess orbital angular momentum along their
direction of propagation in addition to the spin angular momentum that describes their …

Transport evidence for Fermi-arc-mediated chirality transfer in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

PJW Moll, NL Nair, T Helm, AC Potter, I Kimchi… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The dispersion of charge carriers in a metal is distinctly different from that of free electrons
owing to their interactions with the crystal lattice. These interactions may lead to …

Spin–orbit-torque engineering via oxygen manipulation

X Qiu, K Narayanapillai, Y Wu, P Deorani… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Spin transfer torques allow the electrical manipulation of magnetization at room temperature,
which is desirable in spintronic devices such as spin transfer torque memories. When …

Signature of Strong Spin-Orbital Coupling in the Large Nonsaturating Magnetoresistance Material

J Jiang, F Tang, XC Pan, HM Liu, XH Niu, YX Wang… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We report the detailed electronic structure of WTe 2 by high resolution angle-resolved
photoemission spectroscopy. We resolved a rather complicated Fermi surface of WTe 2 …

Observation of possible topological in-gap surface states in the Kondo insulator SmB6 by photoemission

J Jiang, S Li, T Zhang, Z Sun, F Chen, ZR Ye… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
SmB6, a well-known Kondo insulator, exhibits a transport anomaly at low temperature. This
anomaly is usually attributed to states within the hybridization gap. Recent theoretical work …

Orbital Rashba effect in a surface-oxidized Cu film

D Go, D Jo, T Gao, K Ando, S Blügel, HW Lee… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Recent experimental observation of an unexpectedly large current-induced spin-orbit torque
in surface oxidized Cu on top of a ferromagnet pointed to a possibly prominent role of the …