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Orbital relaxation length from first-principles scattering calculations

Orbital relaxation length from first-principles scattering calculations

The orbital Hall effect generates a current of orbital angular momentum perpendicular to a charge current. Experiments suggest that this orbital current decays on a long length scale that is of the order of the spin-flip diffusion length or longer. We examine this suggestion using first-principles quantum mechanical scattering calculations …