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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

Spin-phonon coupling and its efficacy in inducing multiple topological phase transitions in a frustrated kagome antiferromagnet have been rare in literature. To this end, we study the ramifications of invoking optical phonons in such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Shreya Debnath , Kuntal Bhattacharyya , Saurabh Basu

Strong coupling between two quanta of different excitations leads to the formation of a hybridized state which paves a way for exploiting new degrees of freedom to control phenomena with high efficiency and precision. A magnon polaron is…

On-chip cavity magnomechanics is an emerging field exploring acoustic and magnonic functionalities of various ferromagnetic materials and structures using strongly confined phonons. It is expected that such cavity magnomechanics can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Motoki Asano , Hiroki Matsumoto , Masamitsu Hayashi , Daiki Hatanaka

Organic/inorganic interfaces formed by monolayer substrates and conjugated molecular adsorbates are attractive material platforms leveraging the modularity of organic compounds together with the long-range phenomena typical of condensed…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-01 Hanen Hamdi , Jannis Krumland , Ana M. Valencia , Carlos-Andres Palma , Caterina Cocchi

Topological magnetic insulators host chiral gapless edge modes. In the presence of strong interaction effects, the spin of these modes may fractionalize. Studying a 2D array of coupled insulating spin-1/2 chains, we show how spatially…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Even Thingstad , Pierre Fromholz , Flavio Ronetti , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

In this work, we report the theoretical possibility of generating magnon polaron excitations through a space-varying magnetic field. The spatial dependence of the magnetic field in the Zeeman interaction gives rise to a magnon-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 N. Vidal-Silva , E. Aguilera , A. Roldán-Molina , R. A. Duine , A. S. Nunez

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

The magnon-phonon coupling has received growing attention in recent years due to its central role in spin caloritronics and the emerging field of acoustic spintronics. At resonance, this magnetoelastic interaction drives the formation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Tor Jonas Sjöstrand , Ferdi Aryasetiawan

The interaction between light and matter in condensed matter excitations and electromagnetic resonators serves as a rich playground for fundamental research and lies at the core of photonic and quantum technologies. Herein, we present…

Magnons in antiferromagnets can support both right-handed and left-handed chiralities, which shed a light on the chirality-based spintronics. Here we demonstrate the switching and reading of magnon chirality in an artificial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Yahui Liu , Zhengmeng Xu , Lin Liu , Kai Zhang , Yang Meng , Yuanwei Sun , Peng Gao , Hong-Wu Zhao , Qian Niu , J. Li

Elementary quasiparticles in solids such as phonons and magnons occasionally have nontrivial interactions between them, as well as among themselves. As a result, their energy eigenvalues are renormalized, the quasiparticles spontaneously…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-02 Taehun Kim , Kisoo Park , Jonathan C. Leiner , Je-Geun Park

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…

Recently, phonons with chirality (chiral phonons) have attracted significant attention. Chiral phonons exhibit angular and pseudo-angular momenta. In circularly polarized Raman spectroscopy, the peak split of the $\Gamma_3$ mode is…

Hexagonal and kagome lattices exhibit extraordinary electronic properties. It is a natural consequence of additional discrete degree of freedom associated with a valley or the occurence of electronic flat-bands. Combination of both types of…

Chiral phonons are vibrational modes in a crystal that possess a well-defined handedness or chirality, typically found in materials that lack inversion symmetry. Here we report the discovery of chiral phonon modes in the kagome…

Chiral phonons possessing valley pseudo angular momentum (PAM) underlie a diversity of quantum phenomena of fundamental and applied importance, but are challenging to probe directly. We show that deficiencies of typical momentum-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-02 Marc R. Bourgeois , Andrew W. Rossi , David J. Masiello

Recently, one can observe a renewed interest in coupling of spin waves (magnons) and collective charge oscillations (plasmons), especially in two-dimensional systems. Several mechanisms of the magnon-plasmon hybridization in ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Wojciech Rudziński , Mirali Jafari , Józef Barnaś , Anna Dyrdał

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…

The ability to control chirality and chiral phonons offers a route to manipulate the direction of spin and angular-momentum transport. In materials with rigid structural chirality, such as quartz, phonon chirality is fixed by the handedness…