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Recent experiments suggest that the conditions for ferromagnetic order in, e.g., magnetite, can be modified by adsorption of chiral molecules. Especially, the coercivity of magnetite was increased by nearly 100 \%, or 20 times the earth…

In chiral crystals, two types of phonon angular momenta have been introduced. One is crystal angular momentum (CAM) arising from the rotational or screw-rotational symmetry and the other is mechanical angular momentum (MAM) associated with…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Akihito Kato , Nobuhiko Yokoshi , Jun-ichiro Kishine

We theoretically study magnon-phonon hybrid excitations in a square lattice ferromagnet subjected to a magnetic field by varying the field direction. The bulk bands of hybrid excitations, which are referred to as magnon-polarons, are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-18 Pengtao Shen , Se Kwon Kim

We show that magnetism in moir\'e Mott-Wigner crystals can be induced by the collective vibration of electrons around their equilibrium positions (i.e., electronic phonons), even without spin interactions between electrons. Due to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Weide Liang , Xiaoying Du , Na Zhang , Hongyi Yu

We study the topological property of the magnetoelastic excitation in non-collinear antiferromagnets. As a toy model, we consider the magnon-phonon coupling in a triangular antiferromagnet with a $120^\circ$ N\`eel order. We find that in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Sungjoon Park , Bohm-Jung Yang

Motivated by recent experiments on the observation of room temperature skyrmions in a layered heterostructure and subsequent demonstration of topological Hall effect in the same system, we have studied a minimal model of itinerant electrons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-27 Nyayabanta Swain , Munir Shahzad , Pinaki Sengupta

Lattice vibrations can carry angular momentum and magnetic moments under broken inversion or time-reversal symmetry, forming so-called chiral phonons. While such excitations have been explored in nonmagnetic systems via optical probes,…

Time-dependent rotational electric polarizations have been proposed to generate temporally varying magnetic moments, for example, through a combination of ferroelectric polarization and optical phonons. This phenomenon has been called…

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

Gluon field configurations with nonzero topological charge induce P- and CP-odd effects. Such configurations are likely to be produced during heavy ion collisions. In this article, I will argue that in the intense (electromagnetic) magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-17 Harmen J. Warringa

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

Chirality, the breaking of improper rotational symmetry, is a fundamental concept spanning diverse scientific domains. In condensed matter physics, chiral phonons, originating from circular atomic motions that carry angular momentum, have…

Magnetic order typically emerges due to the short-range exchange interaction between the constituent electronic spins. Recent discoveries have found a crucial role for spin-phonon coupling in various phenomena from optical ultrafast…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Petros Andreas Pantazopoulos , Johannes Feist , Francisco J. García-Vidal , Akashdeep Kamra

We propose a mechanism to obtain chiral phonon-like excitations from the bond-dependent magnetoelastic couplings in the absence of out-of-plane magnetization and magnetic fields. By mapping the hybrid excitation to its phononic analog, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Bowen Ma , Z. D. Wang , Gang V. Chen

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

In crystals with broken time-reversal symmetry, zone-center phonons can acquire a finite angular momentum via velocity-dependent forces on the nuclei. Despite having the same order of magnitude as the electron spin angular momentum, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Chiara Fiorazzo , Cheol-Hwan Park , Ivo Souza , Matteo Calandra

We theoretically studied the phonon properties of the triangular-, stripe- and honeycomb-type electronic crystals recently found in two-dimensional semiconductor moir\'e patterns. By analyzing the phonon dispersions, we found the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Hongyi Yu , Jiyong Zhou

We theoretically investigate magnon-phonon hybrid excitations in two-dimensional ferromagnets. The bulk bands of hybrid excitations, which are referred to as magnon-polarons, are analytically shown to be topologically nontrivial, possessing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-11 Gyungchoon Go , Se Kwon Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee

Time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is pivotal for materials optical, magnetic, topological, and transport properties. Chiral phonons, characterized by atoms rotating unidirectionally around their equilibrium positions, generate dynamic lattice…

We propose a mechanism of current-induced phonon angular momentum, which we call phonon Edelstein effect. We investigate this effect in three-dimensional chiral metals with spin-orbit coupling and chiral phonons, and obtain an analytical…

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