  Coupling between charge and spin, and magnetoelectric effects more generally,
have been an area of great interest for several years, with the sought-after
ability to control magnetic degrees of freedom via charge currents serving as
an impetus. The orbital Edelstein effect (OEE) is a kinetic magnetoelectric
effect consisting of a bulk orbital magnetization induced by a charge current.
It is the orbital analogue of the spin Edelstein effect in spin-orbit coupled
materials, in which a charge current drives nonzero electron spin
magnetization. The OEE has recently been investigated in the context of Weyl
semimetals and Weyl metals. Motivated by these developments, we study a model
of electrons without spin-orbit coupling which exhibits line nodes that get
gapped out by via symmetry breaking due to an interaction-induced charge
density wave order. This model is shown to exhibit a temperature dependent OEE,
which appears due to symmetry reduction into a gyrotropic crystal class.
