2024/10/03 by Michael Quinn Patton, Patton, Michael, Dongwook Go +17
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #Magneto-Optical Properties and Applications #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Quantum optics and atomic interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.02996
openalex publication_date 2024/10/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recent discovery of orbital currents in several material platforms including light element metals has opened new possibilities for exploring novel transport phenomena and applications to spin-orbitronic devices. These orbital currents, similar to spin currents, have the ability to generate torque on adjacent magnetic layers, opening a new avenue for efficient spintronic devices. However, separating spin and orbital currents has been one of the major challenges. Here, we show evidence for large conventional as well as unconventional spin and orbital currents in IrO2 and disentangle them by crystal symmetry. We study the anisotropic spin and orbital Hall effects in IrO2 (001), (100), and (111) orientations and find unconventional z-polarized orbital torques using angular spin torque ferromagnetic resonance of IrO2/Ni heterostructures, which are in agreement regarding the relative signs with theoretical calculations of spin and orbital Hall conductivity. This work provides a promising route towards highly efficient low power spintronic and orbitronic devices in oxide heterostructures.