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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…

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

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…

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 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

Chiral phonons provide a route to couple lattice motion to magnetic order, but conventional chiral phonons carry a net angular momentum and thus couple naturally to net magnetization rather than to compensated N\'eel order. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Sanjib Kumar Das , Randy Yeh , Yafei Ren

We propose a mechanism for magnon-plasmon coupling and hybridization in ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) systems. The electric field associated with plasmon oscillations creates a non-equilibrium spin density via the inverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Anna Dyrdał , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Arne Brataas , Józef Barnaś

Phonons in chiral crystal structures can be circularly polarized, making them chiral. Chiral phonons carry angular momentum, which is observable in heat currents, and, via coupling to electron spin, in spin currents. Two-dimensional (2D)…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 Mike Pols , Geert Brocks , Sofía Calero , Shuxia Tao

Using a rotationally invariant formulation of spin-lattice coupling, we derive a rigorous definition of the chemical potential for magnon-polaron quasiparticles in collinear ferromagnets (FMs) and antiferromagnets (AFMs), valid when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Violet Williams , Benedetta Flebus

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

Chiral phonons are the ones with nonzero polarization and can be observed only via a selective coupling with valley electrons and circularly polarized photons. In such process, a new physical quantity, i.e., pseudo-angular momentum (PAM),…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-24 Tiantian Zhang , Shuichi Murakami

The capability of magnons to hybridize and strongly couple with diverse excitations offers a promising avenue for realizing and controlling emergent properties that hold significant potential for applications in devices, circuits, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-22 D. -Q. To , A. Rai , J. M. O. Zide , S. Law , J. Q. Xiao , M. B. Jungfleisch , M. F. Doty

Magnetic layered materials have emerged recently as promising systems to introduce magnetism in structures based on two-dimensional (2D) materials and to investigate exotic magnetic ground states in the 2D limit. In this work, we apply high…

Strong coupling between distinct quasiparticles in condensed matter systems gives rise to hybrid states with emergent properties. We demonstrate the hybridization of confined phonons and finite-wavelength magnons, forming a magnon-polaron…

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

Phonons are quanta of lattice vibrations, and their modes (linear, circular, or stationary) are symmetry-determined. Circularly polarized phonons, possessing nonzero angular momentum (AM), have drawn widespread attention recently. Despite…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Shuai Zhang , Zhiheng Huang , Muchen Du , Tianping Ying , Luojun Du , Tiantian Zhang

The interplay of spin and lattice fluctuations in two-dimensional magnets without inversion symmetry is investigated. We find a general form for the magnetoelastic coupling between magnons and existing chiral phonons based on the symmetries…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Jose D. Mella , L. E. F. Foa Torres , Roberto E. Troncoso

We present a fully analytical model of hybridization between magnon, and phonons observed experimentally in magneto-Raman scattering in van der Waals (vdW) antiferromagnets (AFM). Here, the representative material, FePS3, has been shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Somsubhra Ghosh , Mainak Palit , Sujan Maity , Subhadeep Datta

Chiral phonons were initially proposed and further verified experimentally in two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal crystal lattices. Many intriguing features brought about by chiral phonons are attributed to the pseudo-angular momenta which are…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-10 Qianqian Wang , Si Li , Jiaojiao Zhu , Hao Chen , Weikang Wu , Weibo Gao , Lifa Zhang , Shengyuan A. Yang

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
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