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| author | Zheng, Kun Wang, Haonan Chen, Ju Cui, Hongxin Meng, Jing Li, Zheng Cao, Cuimei Lin, Haoyu Wang, Yuhao Xia, Keqi Liu, Jiahao Feng, Xiaoyu Zhang, Hui Yu, Bocheng Li, Jiyuan Xu, Yang Yang, Zhengzhong Gong, Shijing Zhan, Qingfeng Shang, Tian |
| author_facet | Zheng, Kun Wang, Haonan Chen, Ju Cui, Hongxin Meng, Jing Li, Zheng Cao, Cuimei Lin, Haoyu Wang, Yuhao Xia, Keqi Liu, Jiahao Feng, Xiaoyu Zhang, Hui Yu, Bocheng Li, Jiyuan Xu, Yang Yang, Zhengzhong Gong, Shijing Zhan, Qingfeng Shang, Tian |
| contents | Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) plays a crucial role in the next-generation spin-orbitronics. Enhancing its efficiency is both fundamentally and practically interesting and remains a challenge to date. Recently, orbital counterparts of spin effects that do not rely on the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) have been found as an alternative mechanism to realize it. This work highlights the engineering of copper oxidation states for manipulating the orbital current and its torque in the CuO$_x$-based heterostructures. The orbital hybridization and thus the orbital-Rashba-Edelstein effect at the CuO$_x$/Cu interfaces are significantly enhanced by increasing the copper oxidation state, yielding a torque efficiency that is almost ten times larger than the conventional heavy metals. The Cu$_4$O$_3$/Cu interface, rather than the widely accepted CuO/Cu interface, is revealed to account for the enhanced SOT performance in the CuO$_x$-based heterostructures. In addition, the torque efficiency can be alternatively switched between high and low thresholds through the redox reaction. The current results establish an exotic and robust strategy for engineering the orbital current and SOT for spin-orbitronics, which applies to other weak-SOC materials. |
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| spellingShingle | Engineering of Orbital Hybridization: An Exotic Strategy to Manipulate Orbital Current Zheng, Kun Wang, Haonan Chen, Ju Cui, Hongxin Meng, Jing Li, Zheng Cao, Cuimei Lin, Haoyu Wang, Yuhao Xia, Keqi Liu, Jiahao Feng, Xiaoyu Zhang, Hui Yu, Bocheng Li, Jiyuan Xu, Yang Yang, Zhengzhong Gong, Shijing Zhan, Qingfeng Shang, Tian Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) plays a crucial role in the next-generation spin-orbitronics. Enhancing its efficiency is both fundamentally and practically interesting and remains a challenge to date. Recently, orbital counterparts of spin effects that do not rely on the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) have been found as an alternative mechanism to realize it. This work highlights the engineering of copper oxidation states for manipulating the orbital current and its torque in the CuO$_x$-based heterostructures. The orbital hybridization and thus the orbital-Rashba-Edelstein effect at the CuO$_x$/Cu interfaces are significantly enhanced by increasing the copper oxidation state, yielding a torque efficiency that is almost ten times larger than the conventional heavy metals. The Cu$_4$O$_3$/Cu interface, rather than the widely accepted CuO/Cu interface, is revealed to account for the enhanced SOT performance in the CuO$_x$-based heterostructures. In addition, the torque efficiency can be alternatively switched between high and low thresholds through the redox reaction. The current results establish an exotic and robust strategy for engineering the orbital current and SOT for spin-orbitronics, which applies to other weak-SOC materials. |
| title | Engineering of Orbital Hybridization: An Exotic Strategy to Manipulate Orbital Current |
| topic | Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12841 |