TY  - JOUR
AU  - Zhang, Li-chuan
AU  - Go, Dongwook
AU  - Hanke, Jan-Philipp
AU  - Buhl, Patrick
AU  - Grytsiuk, Sergii
AU  - Blügel, Stefan
AU  - Lux, Fabian R.
AU  - Mokrousov, Yuriy
TI  - Imprinting and driving electronic orbital magnetism using magnons
JO  - Communications Physics
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SN  - 2399-3650
CY  - London
PB  - Springer Nature
M1  - FZJ-2020-05028
SP  - 227
PY  - 2020
AB  - 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000597944900002
DO  - DOI:10.1038/s42005-020-00490-3
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/888564
ER  -