Researchers have demonstrated that electron orbitals, not just spin, can serve as a practical lever for controlling magnetism ...

a) In a weak magnetic field, broad cyclotron orbits suppress the orbital contribution, allowing spin polarization to dominate, (b) In strong magnetic fields, tight cyclotron orbits enhance orbital ...

Electrons inherently carry both spin and orbital angular momentum (i.e., properties that help to understand the rotating motions and behavior of particles). While some physicists and engineers have ...

An international research team have observed “orbital pumping,” a new phenomenon in which orbital currents are generated from the precession of magnetization in magnetic materials. Microwave-induced ...

For over a century, scientists have accepted an uneasy truth. Quantum mechanics and relativity, two of the most successful theories in physics, don’t go along. This conflict becomes more apparent when ...

Researchers used sophisticated resonant X-ray scattering to directly view spin wave currents. The findings were published in Nature.

In a new study published in Nature Physics, scientists have achieved the first experimental observation of phonon angular momentum in chiral crystals. Phonons are the quantized lattice vibrations ...

Electrons are proficient little magicians. They seem to flit about an atom without tracing a particular path, they frequently appear to be in two places at once, and their behavior in silicon ...