Heat drives electron orbital currents, revealing first experimental evidence of orbital Nernst effect
Researchers at National Taiwan University (NTU) have reported the first experimental evidence of heat-current-driven transverse accumulation of electrons' orbital angular momentum, a phenomenon known as the orbital Nernst effect. The…
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Nov 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC · Updated 6 hours ago · 1 min read

Researchers at National Taiwan University (NTU) have reported the first experimental evidence of heat-current-driven transverse accumulation of electrons' orbital angular momentum, a phenomenon known as the orbital Nernst effect. The study was recently published in Nature Communications.
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