The Critical Role of Itinerant Contributions to Orbital Angular Momentum Relaxation and Dynamics

arXiv:2609.21300 · cond-mat.mtrl-sci, cond-mat.other, quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-18 · Read on arXiv

cond-mat.mtrl-sci, cond-mat.other, quant-ph

Submitted: 2026-09-18

Updated: 2026-09-18

Terminology

• Electron-Phonon Scattering — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Department of Energy — 2× in this paper
• Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Supplemental Material — 2× in this paper
• Ab Initio — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Non-Markovian Dynamics — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Spin-Orbit Coupling (SOC) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Valley Polarization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Modern Approach to Orbital Hall Effect Based on Wannier Picture of Solids
• Open-quantum-system theory of non-Markovian electron-phonon dynamics

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