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It is shown that due to Thomas precession, angular momentum is not generally a constant of the motion in a quasiclassical model of the Positronium atom consisting of circular-orbiting point charges with intrinsic spin and associated…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-12-13 David C. Lush

Axial phonons, carrying angular momentum through rotational lattice vibrations, offer a promising platform for exploring phonon-magnetic coupling effects. However, how the interplay of lattice and magnetism determine the phonon angular…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-29 Fuyi Wang , Junqi Xu , Xinqi Liu , Huaiqiang Wang , Lifa Zhang , Haijun Zhang

In an easy-plane antiferromagnet with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), magnons are subject to an effective spin-momentum locking. An in-plane temperature gradient can generate interfacial accumulation of magnons with a specified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

The ultrafast non-thermal control of magnetization has recently become feasible in canted antiferromagnets through photomagnetic instantaneous pulses [A.V. Kimel {\it et al.}, Nature {\bf 435}, 655 (2005)]. In this experiment circularly…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. A. Perroni , A. Liebsch

We compute how phonon creation affects the fidelity of the quantum spin dynamics in trapped ion simulators. A rigorous treatment of the quantum dynamics is made by employing an exact operator factorization of the evolution operator.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-03-31 C. -C. Joseph Wang , James Freericks

The traditional theory of magnetic moments for chiral phonons is based on the picture of the circular motion of the Born effective charge, typically yielding a small fractional value of the nuclear magneton. Here we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Yafei Ren , Cong Xiao , Daniyar Saparov , Qian Niu

When magnons and phonons, the fundamental quasiparticles of the solid, are coupled to one another, they form a new hybrid quasi-particle, leading to novel phenomena and interesting applications. Despite its wide-ranging importance, however,…

Recent experimental evidence points to low-energy magnons as the primary contributors to the spin Seebeck effect. This spectral dependence is puzzling since it is not observed on other thermocurrents in the same material. Here, we argue…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 I. Diniz , A. T. Costa

We study the negative correction to the quantized value $2e^2/h$ of the conductance of a quantum point contact due to the backscattering of electrons by acoustic phonons. The correction shows activated temperature dependence and also gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Georg Seelig , K. A. Matveev

The electron-phonon interaction is one of the most fundamental mechanisms in condensed matter physics. Phonons can induce memory effects in solid-state platforms when localized electronic states interact with lattice vibrations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Ariel Norambuena , Diego Tancara , Vicente Chomalí-Castro , Daniel Castillo

The effect of pressure on the zone-center optical phonon modes and the elastic properties of hafnium has been studied by both experimental (Raman scattering) and theoretical (DFT) approaches. It was found an anomaly dependence of the phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-06 D. Novoselov , V. I. Anisimov , Yu. S. Ponosov

The time-dependent behavior of the Heisenberg model in contact with a phonon heat bath and in an external time-dependent magnetic field is studied by means of a path integral approach. The action of the phonon heat bath is taken into…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Turkowski , V. R. Vieira , P. D. Sacramento

Shot noise is a powerful tool to probe correlations and microscopic transport details that conductance measurements alone cannot reveal. Even in atomic-scale Au devices that are well described by Landauer-B{\"u}ttiker physics, complications…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Ruoyu Chen , Douglas Natelson

The electron-phonon interaction plays a critical role in materials electrical, thermal, optical, and superconducting properties. However, measuring the phonon mode-resolved electron-phonon interaction has been challenging. Here we propose…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-22 Chuliang Fu , Phum Siriviboon , Artittaya Boonkird , Michael Landry , Chen Li , Weiwei Xie , Mingda Li

We propose a new mechanism for the thermal Hall effect in exchange spin-wave systems, which is induced by the magnon-phonon interaction. Using symmetry arguments, we first show that this effect is quite general, and exists whenever the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Xiaoou Zhang , Yinhan Zhang , Satoshi Okamoto , Di Xiao

Sharp structures in magnetic field-dependent spin Seebeck effect (SSE) voltages of Pt/Y$_{3}$Fe$_{5}$O$_{12}$ (YIG) at low temperatures are attributed to the magnon-phonon interaction. Experimental results are well reproduced by a Boltzmann…

We generalize the analysis of the normal modes for a rotating ionic Coulomb crystal in a Penning trap to allow for inhomogeneities in the system. Our formal developments are completely general, but we choose to examine a crystal of Be+ ions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. McAneny , B. Yoshimura , J. K. Freericks

The role of photon angular momentum in laser-induced demagnetization of Nickel thin films is investigated by means of pump-probe time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect in the polar geometry. The recorded data display a strong dependency…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Dalla Longa , J. T. Kohlhepp , W. J. M. de Jonge , B. Koopmans

The fully kinetic simulations of magnetic nozzle acceleration are conducted to investigate the axial momentum gains of ions and electrons with the electrostatic and Lorentz forces. Axial momentum gains per ion and electron are directly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Kazuma Emoto , Kazunori Takahashi , Yoshinori Takao

A magnon and a phonon are the quanta of spin wave and lattice wave, respectively, and they can hybridize into a magnon polaron when their frequencies and wavenumbers match close enough the values at the exceptional point. Guided by an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Shihao Zhuang , Jia-Mian Hu