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A time-dependent inelastic electron transport theory for strong electron-phonon interaction is established via the equations of motion method combined with the small polaron transformation. In this work, the dissipation via electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-21 Yu Zhang , ChiYung Yam , GuanHua Chen

We demonstrate that local modulations of magnetic couplings have a profound effect on the temperature dependence of the relaxation rate of optical magnons in a wide class of antiferromagnets in which gapped excitations coexist with acoustic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-28 A. L. Chernyshev , M. E. Zhitomirsky , N. Martin , L. -P. Regnault

Recent experiment demonstrates magnon to phonon conversion in a YIG film under the application of a non-uniform magnetic field. Light scattered from phonons is observed to change its polarization state interpreted by the authors signifying…

General Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 S C Tiwari

We study the magnetic and lattice contributions to the thermal conductivity of electrically insulating strongly spin-orbit coupled magnetically ordered phases on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice using the Kitaev-Heisenberg model.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Georgios L. Stamokostas , Panteleimon E. Lapas , Gregory A. Fiete

We present a first-principles study of the temperature- and density-dependent intrinsic electrical resistivity of graphene. We use density-functional theory and density-functional perturbation theory together with very accurate Wannier…

Cavity magnomechanics has become an ideal platform to explore macroscopic quantum effects. Bringing together magnons, phonons, and photons in a system, it opens many opportunities for quantum technologies. It was conventionally realized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Chun-Jie Yang , Qingjun Tong , Jun-Hong An

The presence of spin-polarized charge carriers in metallic magnets provides a mechanism for spin-lattice interactions mediated by electron-phonon coupling. Here, we present a theory of this mechanism used to estimate its effect on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-20 Danis I. Badrtdinov , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Alexander N. Rudenko

Spin current -- a flow of the spin degree of freedom in matter -- has vital importance in spintronics. Propagation of the spin current ranges over a whole momentum space; however, generated spin currents are mainly detected in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-01 Yusuke Nambu , Shin-ichi Shamoto

Phonons are well known to be the main mechanism for the coupling between bright and dark excitons in nonmagnetic semiconductors. Here, we investigate diluted magnetic semiconductors where this process is in direct competition with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Florian Ungar , Moritz Cygorek , Vollrath Martin Axt

Spin-phonon coupling underlies a number of diverse range of phenomena of recent interest, particularly in transition metal insulators with strong spin-orbit effects, where it may give rise to hybrid magnetoelastic excitations, and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-02 Ramesh Dhakal , Samuel Griffith , Kate Choi , Stephen M. Winter

The ultrastrong coupling of (quasi-)particles has gained considerable attention due to its application potential and richness of the underlying physics. Coupling phenomena arising due to electromagnetic interactions are well explored. In…

This work, presents a study of lifetime of carriers due to intrinsic scattering mechanisms $viz.$ electron-electron (EEI), electron-phonon (EPI) and phonon-phonon interactions (PPI) in a promising half-Heusler thermoelectric FeVSb. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-26 Shivprasad S. Shastri , Sudhir K. Pandey

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

Spin and lattice dynamics of CaMn7O12 ceramics were investigated using infrared, THz and inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectroscopies in the temperature range 2 to 590 K, and, at low temperatures, in applied magnetic fields of up to 12…

Ferromagnetic metals and insulators are widely used for generation, control and detection of magnon spin signals. Most magnonic structures are based primarily on either magnetic insulators or ferromagnetic metals, while heterostructures…

Magnonics has been receiving significant attention in magnetism and spintronics because of its premise for devices using spin current carried by magnons, quanta of spin-wave excitations of a macroscopically ordered magnetic media. Although…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Junmo Jeon , Se Kwon Kim , SungBin Lee

The thermal transport across metal-insulator interface can be characterized by electron-phonon interaction through which an electron lead is coupled to a phonon lead if phonon-phonon coupling at the interface is very weak. We investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-17 Lifa Zhang , Jing-Tao Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

We investigate the phenomenon of magnomechanically induced grating (MMIG) within a cavity magnomechanical system, comprising magnons (spins in a ferromagnet, such as yttrium iron garnet), cavity microwave photons, and phonons [\textit{J.…

We calculate the dispersion relations for magnon waves on a periodic chain of spherical or cylindrical Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) particles. We use the quasistatic approximation, appropriate when $kd \ll 1$, where $k$ is the wave number and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Nicholas A. Pike , David Stroud

Mode fluctuations with a long lifetime are essential for quantum information and logic operations in magnonic devices. We probe the broadband nonlinear magnetization dynamics of a high-quality ferromagnet under a strong microwave drive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Qian-Nan Huang , Zhiping Xue , Tao Yu