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Chirality and topology team up to produce orbital monopole

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Nature Physics, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02658-y

Electrons in a chiral topological material exhibit a unique orbital angular momentum profile in momentum space that resembles magnetic monopoles. It gives an opportunity to utilize the orbital motion of electrons for information processing — so-called orbitronics.