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We consider the absorption of light with emission of one S(tot)=1 magnetic excitation in systems with a spin gap induced by quantum fluctuations. We argue that an electric dipole transition is allowed on the condition that a virtual phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Olivier Cepas , Timothy Ziman

In altermagnets, the magnon bands are anisotropically spin-split in reciprocal space without relativistic or dipolar spin-spin interactions. In this work, we theoretically study magnons and phonons coupled by spin-lattice interaction in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Hannah Bendin , Alexander Mook , Ingrid Mertig , Robin R. Neumann

Using a combination of first-principles and magnetization-dynamics calculations, we study the effect of the intense optical excitation of phonons on the magnetic behavior in insulating magnetic materials. Taking the prototypical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-13 M. Fechner , A. Sukhov , L. Chotorlishvili , C. Kenel , J. Berakdar , N. A. Spaldin

The discrete rotational symmetry of crystals leads to the conservation of quantized angular momentum in solids. While the exchange of energy and linear momentum between lattice vibrations (phonons) via anharmonic coupling is a cornerstone…

In ionic materials, circularly polarized phonons carry orbital magnetic moments that arise from circular motions of the ions, and which interact with other magnetic moments or fields. Here, we calculate the orbital magnetic moments of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-12 Dominik M. Juraschek , Nicola A. Spaldin

The interaction of polarized light with a spin in the presence of dissipation is shown to be equivalent to a spin transfer process that can cause switching. In plasmas, the spin transfer is dominated by a spin-spin exchange term while at…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rebei , J. Hohlfeld

Indirect long range interactions between localized magnetic moments are in metals mediated by itinerant electrons. In insulators and semi-conductor, such interactions need to be small, if not negligible, due to the absence of mediating…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-17 J. Fransson

Altermagnets have recently attracted considerable interest due to their unique symmetry-governed spintronic properties. Here, we investigate phonon-induced magnon spin currents in a two-dimensional altermagnet. Starting from a microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Sofie Helene Ursin , Mathias Kläui , Kjetil M. D. Hals

Spin current has emerged as a leading candidate for manipulation of spins in a nano-magnet. We here experimentally show another utility of spin current viz. it can be used for generation of phonons. Within the same experimental setup, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 Swapnil Bhuktare , Hanuman Singh , Arnab Bose , Ashwin. A. Tulapurkar

Despite the growing interest in phonon angular momentum (AM) in recent years, current studies remain limited to a few materials due to the constraints imposed by time reversal symmetry on macroscopic phonon AM. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-09 Hong Sun , Xiaozhe Li , Lifa Zhang

We study interaction between two magnetic impurities on top of a two dimensional insulator in the presence of chiral phonons by second-order perturbation theory. We show that this exchange interaction arises from angular momentum of phonons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Takehito Yokoyama

A spin current - a flow of spin angular momentum - can be carried either by spin polarised free electrons or by magnons, the quanta of a moving collective oscillation of localised electron spins - a spin wave. Traditionally, it was assumed,…

Phonon spectroscopy is used to investigate the mechanism of current-induced spin torques in nonmagnetic/ferromagnetic (N/F) point contacts. Magnetization excitations observed in the magneto-conductance of the point contacts are pronounced…

Chiral phonons with atomic rotations converted into electron spins result in a change of spin magnetizations in crystals. In this paper, we investigate a new conversion of chiral phonons into magnons both in ferromagnets and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Dapeng Yao , Shuichi Murakami

The magneto-optical and opto-magnetic effects describe the interaction of light with a magnetic medium. The most prominent examples are the Faraday and Cotton-Mouton effects that modify the transmission of light through a medium, and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-14 Dominik M. Juraschek , Prineha Narang , Nicola A. Spaldin

Thermoelectric phenomena in magnetic materials present tantalizing possibilities for manipulating spin-information using heat in future 'spin caloritronic' devices. Key to unraveling their underlying physics is to understand spin-lattice…

We investigate spin angular momentum transfer in the Einstein-de Haas effect within prototypical magnetic crystals, focusing on its partition between phonons and rigid-body rotation. Using the Eckart frame to decouple local vibrations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Xin Nie , Wenhao Luo , Kun Cao , Dao-Xin Yao

A positive muon is a spin-1/2 particle. Beams of muons with all their spins polarized can be prepared and subsequently implanted in various types of condensed matter. The subsequent precession and relaxation of their spins can then be used…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-13 S. J. Blundell

We derive the anomalous Hall contributions arising from dipolar interactions to diffusive spin transport in magnetic insulators. Magnons, the carriers of angular momentum in these systems, are shown to have a non-zero Berry curvature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Pieter M. Gunnink , Rembert A. Duine , Andreas Rückriegel

Circularly polarized phonons offer a new route for mediating angular momentum in solids. However, controlling phonon angular momentum without altering the material's structure or composition remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Fangliang Wu , Jing Zhou , Song Bao , Liangyue Li , Jinsheng Wen , Yuan Wan , Qi Zhang