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The plethora of recent discoveries in the field of topological electronic insulators has inspired a search for boson systems with similar properties. There are predictions that ferromagnets on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice may host…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Even Thingstad , Akashdeep Kamra , Arne Brataas , Asle Sudbø

Chiral structures that produce asymmetric spin-phonon coupling can theoretically generate spin-phonon polarons -- quasiparticles exhibiting non-degenerate spin states with phonon displacements. These quasiparticles are speculated to be the…

We present a theoretical study of excitations formed by hybridization between magnons and phonons - magnon-polarons - in antiferromagnets. We first outline a general approach to determining which magnon and phonon modes can and cannot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Haakon T. Simensen , Roberto E. Troncoso , Akashdeep Kamra , Arne Brataas

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

Generation of magnon polarons, which are hybridized states resulting from strong magnon-phonon coupling, is a key to enabling coherent manipulation in acoustic and spintronic devices. However, the conventional device configuration, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Daiki Hatanaka , Motoki Asano , Megumi Kurosu , Yoshitaka Taniyasu , Hajime Okamoto , Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Quasiparticles describe collective excitations in many-body systems, and their symmetry classification is of fundamental importance because they govern physical processes on various timescales, e.g., excited states, transport phenomena, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-29 Hiroki Ueda , Abhishek Nag , Carl P. Romao , Mirian García-Fernández , Ke-Jin Zhou , Urs Staub

Magnomechanical devices, in which magnetic excitations couple to mechanical vibrations, have been discussed as efficient and broadband microwave signal transducers in the classical and quantum limit. We experimentally investigate the…

Recent Raman experiments on the Kitaev material $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ have reported a finite Raman circular dichroism (RCD), revealing chiral phonon behaviour not expected from lattice symmetry alone. To explain this observation, we develop a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-20 Eduard Koller , Swetlana Swarup , Johannes Knolle , Natalia B. Perkins

We theoretically study magnon-phonon hybrid excitations (magnon-polarons) in two-dimensional antiferromagnets on a honeycomb lattice. With an in-plane Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) allowed from mirror symmetry breaking from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Bowen Ma , Gregory A. Fiete

Chiral phonon-polaritonic states are of interest for handedness-dependent light-matter interactions, yet their realization and magnetic control remain challenging, while direct magneto-optical tunability of phonon-polaritonic media is…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-15 Yu Sun , Jue Li , Wei Li , Bo Li , Qinghua Song , Mengyao Li

Chiral phonons, circularly polarized lattice vibrations carrying intrinsic angular momentum, offer unprecedented opportunities for controlling heat flow, manipulating quantum states through spin-phonon coupling, and realizing exotic…

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

Chiral symmetry breaking of phonons plays an essential role in emergent quantum phenomena owing to its strong coupling to spin degree of freedom. However, direct experimental evidence of the chiral phonon-spin coupling is lacking. In this…

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

Magnetic excitations in van der Waals (vdW) materials, especially in the two-dimensional (2D) limit, are an exciting research topic from both the fundamental and applied perspectives. Using temperature-dependent, magneto-Raman spectroscopy,…

Magnons in antiferromagnets exhibit two chiral modes, providing an intrinsic degree of freedom for magnon-based computing architectures and spintronic devices. Electrical control of chiral splitting is crucial for applications, but remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Yu Xie , Dinghui Wang , Chao Li , Xiaofan Shen , Junting Zhang

We explicitly derive the wavefunctions of chiral phonons propagating along the helical axis in chiral crystals and clarify the characteristics of electron-phonon interactions in chiral helical crystals. In particular, we elucidate how the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-07 Tomomi Tateishi , Akihito Kato , Jun-ichiro Kishine

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 hybridization of magnons (spin waves) with phonons, if sufficiently strong and comprising long wavelength excitations, may offer a new playground when manipulating the magnetically ordered systems with light. Applying a magnetic field…

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…