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Systems with space-periodic Hamiltonians have unique scattering properties. The discrete translational symmetry associated with periodicity of the Hamiltonian creates scattering channels that govern the scattering process. We consider a…

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Competing magnetic anisotropies in chiral crystals with Dzyaloshinskii Moriya exchange interactions can give rise to non-trivial chiral topological magnetisation configurations with new and interesting properties. One such configuration is…

Strain engineering has quickly emerged as a viable option to modify the electronic, optical and magnetic properties of 2D materials. However, it remains challenging to arbitrarily control the strain. Here we show that by creating…

Dirac and Weyl semimetals form an ideal platform for testing ideas developed in high energy physics to describe massless relativistic particles. One such quintessentially field-theoretic idea of chiral anomaly already resulted in the…

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An anomalous magneto-optical spectrum is discovered for dipolar valley excitons in twisted double layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD), where in-plane magnetic field induces a sizable multiplet splitting of exciton states inside the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Huiyuan Zheng , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

Searching for novel two-dimensional (2D) materials is crucial for the development of the next generation technologies such as electronics, optoelectronics, electrochemistry and biomedicine. In this work, we designed a series of 2D materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-29 Jie Li , Ruqian Wu

We propose a feasible waveguide design optimized for harnessing Stimulated Brillouin Scattering with long-lived phonons. The design consists of a fully suspended ridge waveguide surrounded by a 1D phononic crystal that mitigates losses to…

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

Lateral superlattices in 2D materials are emerging as a powerful platform for exploring novel quantum phenomena, which can be realized through the proximity coupling in forming moir\'e pattern with another layer. This approach, however, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Pei Zhao , Chengxin Xiao , Wang Yao

We investigate the long-wavelength dispersion of longitudinal and transverse optical phonon modes in polar two-dimensional materials, multilayers, and their heterostructures. Using analytical models and density-functional perturbation…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 Thibault Sohier , Marco Gibertini , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri , Nicola Marzari

In this paper, the chiral Hall effect of strained Weyl semimetals without any external magnetic field is proposed. Electron-phonon coupling emerges in the low-energy fermionic sector through a pseudogauge potential. We show that, by using…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Shiva Heidari , Reza Asgari

We study the interplay between a uniaxial strain and the topology of the Haldane and the modified Haldane models which, respectively, exhibit chiral and antichiral edge modes. The latter were, recently, predicted by Colom\'es and Franz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Marwa Mannaï , Sonia Haddad

Magnons in ferromagnets have one chirality, and typically are in the GHz range and have a quadratic dispersion near the zero wavevector. In contrast, magnons in antiferromagnets are commonly considered to have bands with both chiralities…

We propose a symmetry-based framework for constructing effective harmonic phonon models using a symmetry-adapted multipole basis. By decomposing the force-constant matrix into bond-centered electric multipoles, we identify the minimal…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 Yu Xie , Rikuto Oiwa , Satoru Hayami

The interplay of twist and strain in bilayer graphene enables the formation of moir\'e patterns and narrow bands that host correlated and topological phases. While magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has been widely studied, strain…

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Recent studies have shown that non-equilibrium optical systems under static electric fields offer a pathway to realize chiral gain, where the non-Hermitian response of a material is controlled by the spin angular momentum of the wave. In…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Filipa R. Prudêncio , Mário G. Silveirinha

Strain engineering can modulate the material properties of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors for electronic and optoelectronic applications. Recent theory and experiments have found that uniaxial tensile strain can improve the electron…

Circular dichroism and helical dichroism are intriguing chiroptical phenomena with broad applications in optical sensing and imaging. Here, we generalize one of the phenomena-helical dichroism-to acoustics. We show that a one-dimensional…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Qing Tong , Shubo Wang

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a promising two-dimensional platform for quantum sensing, due to its optically addressable spin defects, such as the negatively charged boron vacancy ($V_{\text{B}}^-$). Despite hBN being…

Chiral condensed matter systems, such as liquid crystals and magnets, exhibit a host of spatially localized topological structures that emerge from the medium's tendency to twist and its competition with confinement and field coupling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-07 Jung-Shen B. Tai , Ivan I. Smalyukh