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The generation of current-induced torques through the spin Hall effect in Pt has been key to the development of spintronics. In prototypical ferromagnetic-metal/Pt devices, the characteristic length of the torque generation is known to be about 1 nm due to the short spin diffusion length of Pt. Here, we report the observation of a long-range current-induced torque in Ni/Pt bilayers. We demonstrate that when Ni is used as the ferromagnetic layer, the torque efficiency increases with the Pt thickness, even when it exceeds 10 nm. The torque efficiency is also enhanced by increasing the Ni thickness, providing evidence that the observed torque cannot be attributed to the spin Hall effect in the Pt layer. These findings, coupled with our semirealistic tight-binding calculations of the current-induced torque, suggest the possibility that the observed long-range torque is dominated by the orbital Hall effect in the Pt layer.
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