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High intensity THz lasers allow for the coherent excitation of individual phonon modes. The ultrafast control of emergent magnetism by means of phonons opens up new tuning mechanisms for functional materials. While theoretically predicted…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 R. Matthias Geilhufe , Wolfram Hergert

We have studied the magnetic response of transverse optical phonons in Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_{x}$Te films. Polarization-dependent terahertz magnetospectroscopy measurements revealed Zeeman splittings and diamagnetic shifts, demonstrating that these…

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

We construct a general theory of spin magnetization driven by chiral phonons under an adiabatic process, in which atoms rotate around their equilibrium positions with a low phonon frequency. Here the spin magnetization originates from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Dapeng Yao , Shuichi Murakami

Chiral phonons are desirable for applications in spintronics but their generation and control remains a challenge.Here we demonstrate the emergence of truly chiral phonons from selective magnon-phonon coupling in inversion-symmetric…

Circularly polarized phonons conventionally carry an angular momentum and a magnetic moment arising from circular motions of the atoms. Here, we present three anomalous cases that lead to phonon magnetic moments, which cannot be described…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Swati Chaudhary , Carl P. Romao , Dominik M. Juraschek

The phonon inverse Faraday effect describes the emergence of a DC magnetization due to circularly polarized phonons. In this work we present a microscopic formalism for the phonon inverse Faraday effect. The formalism is based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-10 Natalia Shabala , R. Matthias Geilhufe

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…

We develop a theory for the phonon magnetic moment in doped Dirac materials, treating phonons as emergent gauge and gravitational fields coupled to Dirac fermions in curved space. By classifying electron-phonon coupling into angular…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-16 Wenqin Chen , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Ting Cao , Shi-Zeng Lin , Di Xiao

We provide a topological understanding on phonon Hall effect in dielectrics with Raman spinphonon coupling. A general expression for phonon Hall conductivity is obtained in terms of the Berry curvature of band structures. We find a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-28 Lifa Zhang , Jie Ren , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

Circularly polarized lattice vibrations carry angular momentum and lead to magnetic responses in applied magnetic fields or when resonantly driven with ultrashort laser pulses. Recent measurements have found responses that are orders of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Swati Chaudhary , Dominik M. Juraschek , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Gregory A. Fiete

The direct, ultrafast excitation of polar phonons with electromagnetic radiation is a potent strategy for controlling the properties of a wide range of materials, particularly in the context of influencing their magnetic behavior. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 R. Merlin

We develop a general formalism of phonon magnetic moment by including the relaxation process. We then identify the skew-scattering and side-jump contributions to the phonon magnetic moment originating from the non-adiabaticity, both of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Rui Xue , Zhenhua Qiao , Yang Gao , Qian Niu

The current understanding of chirality suggests the existence of a connection between structure and angular momentum, including spin. This is particularly emphasised in the chiral induced spin selectivity effect, where chiral structures act…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 J. Fransson

We present a quantum theory of phonon magnetic moment in doped Dirac semimetals. Our theory is based on an emergent gauge field approach to the electron-phonon coupling, applicable to both gapless and gapped systems. We find that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-25 Wenqin Chen , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Ying Su , Ting Cao , Di Xiao , Shi-Zeng Lin

Axial or circularly polarized phonons are collective lattice vibrations with angular momentum. Over the past decade they have emerged as a promising mechanism for the manipulation of magnetism, in parallel to well established optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Natalia Shabala , Finja Tietjen , R. Matthias Geilhufe

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

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

Electrons in moir\'e flat band systems can spontaneously break time reversal symmetry, giving rise to a quantized anomalous Hall effect. Here we use a superconducting quantum interference device to image stray magnetic fields in one such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 C. L. Tschirhart , M. Serlin , H. Polshyn , A. Shragai , Z. Xia , J. Zhu , Y. Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. E. Huber , A. F. Young

Circularly polarized phonons, characterized by nonzero angular momenta and magnetic moments, have attracted extensive attention. However, a long-standing critical issue in this field is the lack of an approach to accurately calculate phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-29 Fuyi Wang , Xinqi Liu , Hong Sun , Huaiqiang Wang , Shuichi Murakami , Lifa Zhang , Haijun Zhang , Dingyu Xing
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