Abstract
We investigate the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and the d-orbital Hall conductivity (OHC) in metallic d-electron systems, by focusing on the t2g-orbital tight-binding model for Sr2MO4 (M=Ru, Rh, Mo). The conductivities obtained are one or 2 orders of magnitude larger than predicted values for p-type semiconductors with approximately 5% hole doping. The origin of these giant Hall effects is the "effective Aharonov-Bohm phase" that is induced by the d-atomic angular momentum in connection with the spin-orbit interaction and the interorbital hopping integrals. The huge SHC and OHC generated by this mechanism are expected to be ubiquitous in multiorbital transition metal compounds, which opens the possibility of realizing spintronics as well as "orbitronics" devices.
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