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Chiral phonons possessing valley pseudo angular momentum (PAM) underlie a diversity of quantum phenomena of fundamental and applied importance, but are challenging to probe directly. We show that deficiencies of typical momentum-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-02 Marc R. Bourgeois , Andrew W. Rossi , David J. Masiello

We study inherently chiral self-propelled particles, self-rotating at a fixed frequency, in two dimensions, subjected to nematic alignment interactions and rotational noise. By means of both, homogeneous and spatially resolved mean field…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-19 Rüdiger Kürsten , Demian Levis

We have studied the precession mode, the rotational excitation built on the high-$K$ isomeric state, in comparison with the recently identified wobbling mode. The random-phase-approximation (RPA) formalism, which has been developed for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Yoshifumi R. Shimizu , Masayuki Matsuzaki , Kenichi Matsuyanagi

Features of the phonon spectrum of a chiral crystal are examined within the micropolar elasticity theory. This formalism accounts for not only translational micromotions of a medium but also rotational ones. It is found that there appears…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 J. Kishine , A. S. Ovchinnikov , A. A. Tereshchenko

Distinct from the phononic valley pseudo-spin, the real physical spin of elastic waves adds a novel tool-kit capable of envisaging the valley-spin physics of topological valley phononic crystals from a local viewpoint. Here, we report the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jinfeng Zhao , Chenwen Yang , Weitao Yuan , Danmei Zhang , Yang Long , Yongdong Pan , Hong Chen , Zheng Zhong , Jie Ren

The chiral plasmon modes of relativistic matter in background magnetic and strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields are studied in detail using the consistent chiral kinetic theory. The results reveal a number of anomalous features of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Chiral phonons, quantized lattice vibrations with circular polarization and non-zero angular momentum, offer new perspectives for phononic and quantum device engineering. Graphyne could be a promising candidate due to its unique lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Subhendu Mishra , Arpan Chakraborty , Douglas S. Galvao , Pedro A. S. Autreto , Abhishek Kumar Singh

Truly chiral phonons are lattice eigenmodes that combine broken mirror symmetry with circular atomic motion. They can mediate angular-momentum-selective interactions in quantum materials, yet directly resolving both their chirality and…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-29 Yuhan Wang , Yuxuan Wei , Li Huang , Chuanshan Tian

A collective model is proposed to describe the chiral rotation and vibration and applied to a system with one $h_{11/2}$ proton particle and one $h_{11/2}$ neutron hole coupled to a triaxial rigid rotor. The collective Hamiltonian is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-02-26 Q. B. Chen , S. Q. Zhang , P. W. Zhao , R. V. Jolos , J. Meng

We study a relativistic spin-1/2 fermion subjected to a Dirac oscillator coupling and a constant magnetic field. An interplay between opposed chirality interactions culminates in the appearance of a relativistic quantum phase transition,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Bermudez , M. A. Martin-Delgado , A. Luis

Chiral phonons, originally identified in two-dimensional hexagonal lattices and later extended to kagome, square, and other lattices, have been extensively studied as manifestations of broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-03 Ravi Kiran , A. Taraphder

Massive Dirac particles are a superposition of left and right chiral components. Since chirality is not a conserved quantity, the free Dirac Hamiltonian evolution induces chiral quantum oscillations, a phenomenon related to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt , Alex E. Bernardini , Massimo Blasone

Chiral phonons have been proposed to be involved in various physical phenomena, yet the chirality of molecular normal modes has not been well defined mathematically. Here we examine two approaches for assigning and quantifying the chirality…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Ethan Abraham , Abraham Nitzan

Non-Hermiticity and chirality are two fundamental properties known to give rise to various intriguing phenomena. However, the interplay between these properties has been rarely explored. In this work, we bridge this gap by introducing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Haowei Xu , Guoqing Wang , Changhao Li , Hao Tang , Paola Cappellaro , Ju Li

The notion that phonons can carry pseudo-angular momentum has become popular in the last decade, with recent research efforts highlighting phonon chirality, Berry curvature of phonon band structure, and the phonon Hall effect. When a phonon…

Many-body systems with chiral fermions exhibit anomalous transport phenomena originated from quantum anomalies. Based on quantum field theory, we derive the kinetic theory for chiral fermions interacting with an external electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-08 Yu-Chen Liu , Lan-Lan Gao , Kazuya Mameda , Xu-Guang Huang

The recently reported wobbling bands in $^{135}$Pr are investigated by the collective Hamiltonian, in which the collective parameters, including the collective potential and the mass parameter, are respectively determined from the tilted…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-15 Q. B. Chen , S. Q. Zhang , J. Meng

The hallmark of two-dimensional chiral topological phases is the existence of anomalous gapless modes at the spatial boundary. Yet, the manifestation of this edge anomaly within the bulk ground-state wavefunction itself remains only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Yarden Sheffer , Ruihua Fan , Ady Stern , Erez Berg , Shinsei Ryu

The method of description of the high-spin states, which was previously developed and applied for the states of this type in $^{208}$Pb, is generalized for the case of the states having more complex multiphonon structure. In this method,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 N. Lyutorovich , V. Tselyaev

We study in this work the 2D dynamics of an experimental system of disk-shaped rotors, fluidized by turbulent upflow. Contrary to previous knowledge, our experiments show the same particle chiral geometry can produce flows with different…