  Magnons, as the most elementary excitations of magnetic materials, have
recently emerged as a prominent tool in electrical and thermal manipulation and
transport of spin, and magnonics as a field is considered as one of the pillars
of modern spintronics. On the other hand, orbitronics, which exploits the
orbital degree of freedom of electrons rather than their spin, emerges as a
powerful platform in efficient design of currents and redistribution of angular
momentum in structurally complex materials. Here, we uncover a way to bridge
the worlds of magnonics and electronic orbital magnetism, which originates in
the fundamental coupling of scalar spin chirality, inherent to magnons, to the
orbital degree of freedom in solids. We show that this can result in efficient
generation and transport of electronic orbital angular momentum by magnons,
thus opening the road to combining the functionalities of magnonics and
orbitronics to their mutual benefit in the realm of spintronics applications.

Strongly Correlated Electrons