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A generation, propagation, and transfer of phonon angular momenta are examined on thermal transport in chiral insulative and diamagnetic crystals of $\alpha$-quartz. We found that thermally-driven phonons carry chirality-dependent angular…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-31 Kazuki Ohe , Hiroaki Shishido , Masaki Kato , Shoyo Utsumi , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Yoshihiko Togawa

We consider spin injection driven by nonequilibrium chiral phonons from a chiral insulator into an adjacent metal. Phonon-spin conversion arises from the coupling of the electron spin with the microrotation associated with chiral phonons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Takumi Funato , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

Spintronic devices currently rely on magnetic switching or controlled motion of domain walls by an external magnetic field or spin-polarized current. Achieving the same degree of magnetic controllability using an electric field has…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-14 Tuomas H. E. Lahtinen , Kévin J. A. Franke , Sebastiaan van Dijken

Chiral-lattice degrees of freedom can offer novel chirality-selective functionalities for thermotronic applications. Chiral phonons, carrying both heat and angular momentum, can emerge through a breaking of chiral degeneracy in the phonon…

Nonlinear Hall effects have been previously investigated in non-centrosymmetric systems for electronic systems. However, they only exist in metallic systems and are not compatible with ferroelectrics since these latter are insulators, hence…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-28 W. Luo , J. Y. Ji , P. Chen , Y. Xu , L. F. Zhang , H. J. Xiang , L. Bellaiche

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

Chirality as internal degree of freedom of a mesoscopic domain wall inside a quasi-one-dimensional fixture can be controlled by spin-polarized current for ferro- as well as anti-ferro-magnetic domain walls. We show that the current density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Oleksiy Kolezhuk , Roman Teslia , Ihor Buryak , Olena Gomonay

Chirality in solids is attracting growing attention as a potential ferroic order, yet virtually no paradigmatic example of a soft-mode achiral-to-chiral phase transition has been firmly established to date. Here we identify ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Urmimala Dey , Natalya S. Fedorova , Jorge Íñiguez-González , Hugo Aramberri

The recent experiment [R. Nakajima, et al., Nature 613, 479 (2023)] has reported a pair of oppositely polarized spins under an alternating electric current in a superconductor with a chiral structure. However, these behaviors cannot be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Dapeng Yao , Mamoru Matsuo , Takehito Yokoyama

We propose a mechanism of current-induced phonon angular momentum, which we call phonon Edelstein effect. We investigate this effect in three-dimensional chiral metals with spin-orbit coupling and chiral phonons, and obtain an analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Takehito Yokoyama

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

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

Controlling magnetism by purely electrical means is a key challenge to better information technology1. A variety of material systems, including ferromagnetic (FM) metals2,3,4, FM semiconductors5, multiferroics6,7,8 and magnetoelectric (ME)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Shengwei Jiang , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

The switching of electric polarization induced by electric fields -a fundamental functionality of ferroelectrics- is closely associated with the motions of the domain walls that separate regions with distinct polarization directions.…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-10 F. Kagawa , S. Horiuchi , N. Minami , S. Ishibashi , K. Kobayashi , R. Kumai , Y. Murakami , Y. Tokura

Chiral molecular systems offer unique pathways to control spin and magnetism beyond conventional symmetry operations. Here, we demonstrate that chiral ionic liquids enable electric-field modulation of two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetism in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Hideki Matsuoka , Amaki Moriyama , Tomohiro Hori , Yoshinori Tokura , Yoshihiro Iwasa , Shu Seki , Masayuki Suda , Naoya Kanazawa

The concept of chirality is of great relevance in nature, from chiral molecules such as sugar to parity transformations in particle physics. In condensed matter physics, recent studies have demonstrated chiral fermions and their relevance…

Two-dimensional van der Waals magnets hosting topological magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, show promise for applications in spintronics and quantum computing. Electrical control of these topological spin textures would enable novel…

Chirality, i.e., the right- and left-handedness of structure, is one of the key concepts in many fields of science including biology, chemistry and physics, and its manipulation is an issue of vital importance. The electron spins in solids…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-30 Masahito Mochizuki , Naoto Nagaosa

The chirality-dependent magnetoelectric properties of Neel-type domain walls in iron garnet films is observed. The electrically driven magnetic domain wall motion changes the direction to the opposite with the reversal of electric polarity…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-23 A. P. Pyatakov , D. A. Sechin , A. V. Nikolaev , E. P. Nikolaeva , A. S. Logginov

A collective excitation of the spin structure in a magnetic insulator can transmit spin-angular momentum with negligible dissipation. This quantum of a spin wave, introduced more than nine decades ago, has always been manipulated through…