Large Chiral Orbital Texture and Orbital Edelstein Effect in Co/Al Heterostructure
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| author | Nikolaev, Sergey A. Chshiev, Mairbek Ibrahim, Fatima Krishnia, Sachin Sebe, Nicolas George, Jean-Marie Cros, Vincent Jaffrès, Henri Fert, Albert |
| author_facet | Nikolaev, Sergey A. Chshiev, Mairbek Ibrahim, Fatima Krishnia, Sachin Sebe, Nicolas George, Jean-Marie Cros, Vincent Jaffrès, Henri Fert, Albert |
| contents | Recent experiments by S. Krishnia et al., Nano Lett. 23, 6785 (2023) reported an unprecedentedly large enhancement of torques upon inserting thin Al layer in Co/Pt heterostructure that suggested the presence of a Rashba-like interaction at the metallic Co/Al interface. Based on first-principles calculations, we reveal the emergence of a large helical orbital texture in reciprocal space at the interfacial Co layer, whose origin is attributed to the orbital Rashba effect due to the formation of the surface states at the Co/Al interface and where spin-orbit coupling is found to produce smaller contributions with a higher-order winding of the orbital momentum. Our results unveil that the orbital texture gives rise to a non-equilibrium orbital accumulation producing large current-induced torques, thus providing an essential theoretical background for the experimental data and advancing the use of orbital transport phenomena in all-metallic magnetic systems with light elements. |
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| spellingShingle | Large Chiral Orbital Texture and Orbital Edelstein Effect in Co/Al Heterostructure Nikolaev, Sergey A. Chshiev, Mairbek Ibrahim, Fatima Krishnia, Sachin Sebe, Nicolas George, Jean-Marie Cros, Vincent Jaffrès, Henri Fert, Albert Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Recent experiments by S. Krishnia et al., Nano Lett. 23, 6785 (2023) reported an unprecedentedly large enhancement of torques upon inserting thin Al layer in Co/Pt heterostructure that suggested the presence of a Rashba-like interaction at the metallic Co/Al interface. Based on first-principles calculations, we reveal the emergence of a large helical orbital texture in reciprocal space at the interfacial Co layer, whose origin is attributed to the orbital Rashba effect due to the formation of the surface states at the Co/Al interface and where spin-orbit coupling is found to produce smaller contributions with a higher-order winding of the orbital momentum. Our results unveil that the orbital texture gives rise to a non-equilibrium orbital accumulation producing large current-induced torques, thus providing an essential theoretical background for the experimental data and advancing the use of orbital transport phenomena in all-metallic magnetic systems with light elements. |
| title | Large Chiral Orbital Texture and Orbital Edelstein Effect in Co/Al Heterostructure |
| topic | Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09957 |