Imprinting and driving electronic orbital magnetism using magnons

Zhang LC, Go D, Hanke JP, Buhl PM, Grytsiuk S, Blugel S, Lux FR, Mokrousov Y (2020)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Journal

Communications Physics Springer Nature

Book Volume: 3

Article Number: 227

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1038/s42005-020-00490-3

Abstract

Magnons, as the most elementary excitations of magnetic materials, have recently emerged as a prominent tool in electrical and thermal manipulation and transport of spin, and magnonics as a field is considered as one of the pillars of modern spintronics. On the other hand, orbitronics, which exploits the orbital degree of freedom of electrons rather than their spin, emerges as a powerful platform in efficient design of currents and redistribution of angular momentum in structurally complex materials. Here, we uncover a way to bridge the worlds of magnonics and electronic orbital magnetism, which originates in the fundamental coupling of scalar spin chirality, inherent to magnons, to the orbital degree of freedom in solids. We show that this can result in efficient generation and transport of electronic orbital angular momentum by magnons, thus opening the road to combining the functionalities of magnonics and orbitronics to their mutual benefit in the realm of spintronics applications.

Involved external institutions

Forschungszentrum Jülich / Research Centre Jülich (FZJ) DE Germany (DE) Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Zhang, L.-C., Go, D., Hanke, J.-P., Buhl, P.M., Grytsiuk, S., Blugel, S.,... Mokrousov, Y. (2020). Imprinting and driving electronic orbital magnetism using magnons. Communications Physics, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-020-00490-3

MLA:

Zhang, Li-Chuan, et al. "Imprinting and driving electronic orbital magnetism using magnons." Communications Physics 3.1 (2020).

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