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Motivated by the recent discovery of anomalously large magnetic response of chiral phonons in dipolar magnets, we explore an extension to study Einstein quantum phonon modes coupled to multipolar moments. We consider the case of non-Kramers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-25 Ruairidh Sutcliffe , Kathleen Hart , Swati Chaudhary , Arun Paramekanti

Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites with chiral organic cations are very interesting for optoelectronic applications because of their intrinsically chiral light-matter interactions. Chiral distortions in these materials lead to circular…

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

Chiral phonons are mirror-symmetric vibrations that correspond to twisting and rotational motions of atoms. In chiral biomolecules, they correspond to low-energy terahertz (THz)-range vibrations of the molecular segments involving dozens of…

Chiral molecules can selectively transport electrons of a particular spin orientation, yet the underlying mechanism remain poorly understood. Here, we present theoretical evidence that electrons propagating through chiral materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-01 Xiaoming Wang , Yeming Xian , Yanfa Yan

The diagrammatic computation of the chiral anomaly is associated with momentum-routing invariance breaking. This happens because the momentum routing in the internal lines of a loop diagram is chosen such that the gauge Ward identities hold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 A. R. Vieira

Raman spectroscopy is a valuable characterization tool for two-dimensional materials. Starting from model Hamiltonians for Chern insulators and magnetized monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, we theoretically predict two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Selçuk Parlak , Ion Garate

The most important problem of spectroscopic chiral analysis is the inherently weak chiral signals are easily overwhelmed by the environment noises. Enormous efforts had been spent to overcome this problem by enhancing the symmetry break in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Chong Ye , Yifan Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

The recent discovery of 2D magnets has revealed various intriguing phenomena due to the coupling between spin and other degree of freedoms (such as helical photoluminescence, nonreciprocal SHG). Previous research on the spin-phonon coupling…

Molecular matter-wave interferometry enables novel strategies for manipulating the internal mechanical motion of complex molecules. Here, we show how chiral molecules can be prepared in a quantum superposition of two enantiomers by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Benjamin A. Stickler , Mira Diekmann , Robert Berger , Daqing Wang

Chirality is an indispensable concept that pervades fundamental science and nature, manifesting itself in diverse forms such as chiral quasiparticles and chiral structures. Of particular interest are Weyl phonons carrying specific Chern…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-25 Tiantian Zhang , Zhiheng Huang , Zitian Pan , Luojun Du , Guangyu Zhang , Shuichi Murakami

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…

In our recent paper [Phys. Rev. B 65, 075316 (2002)], the selection rules for the Raman scattering in spherical nanocrystals are analyzed. Here we show, that a physically expedient choice of the coordinate system, related to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. P. Pokatilov , S. N. Klimin , V. M. Fomin , J. T. Devreese , F. W. Wise

In monolayer hexagonal lattices, two inequivalent valleys appear in the Brillouin zone. With inversion symmetry breaking, we find chiral phonons with valley contrasting circular polarization and ionic magnetic moment. At valley centers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Lifa Zhang , Qian Niu

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in chiral phonons, lattice vibrations carrying angular momentum and exhibiting handedness, as revealed by helicity-dependent optical phenomena. Despite this progress, a quantitative…

Axial phonons, carrying angular momentum through rotational lattice vibrations, offer a promising platform for exploring phonon-magnetic coupling effects. However, how the interplay of lattice and magnetism determine the phonon angular…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-29 Fuyi Wang , Junqi Xu , Xinqi Liu , Huaiqiang Wang , Lifa Zhang , Haijun Zhang

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

Chirality characterizes the asymmetry between a structure and its mirror image and underlies a wide range of chiral functionalities. In crystallographically chiral materials, phonons with non-zero linear momentum $\textbf{k}$ can acquire a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 J. Okamoto , C. Y. Mou , H. Y. Huang , G. Channagowdra , C. Won , K. Du , X. Fang , E. V. Komleva , C. T. Chen , S. V. Streltsov , A. Fujimori , S-W. Cheong , D. J. Huang

The bosonisation technique is used to calculate the resonant Raman spectrum of a quantum wire with two electronic sub-bands occupied. Close to resonance, the cross section at frequencies in the region of the inter sub-band transitions shows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Mariani , M. Sassetti , B. Kramer

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…