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We study interaction between two magnetic impurities on top of a two dimensional insulator in the presence of chiral phonons by second-order perturbation theory. We show that this exchange interaction arises from angular momentum of phonons…

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

Chiral properties have seen increasing use in recent years, leading to the emerging fields of chiral quantum optics, plasmonics, and phononics. While these fields have achieved manipulation of the chirality of light and lattice vibrations,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-08 Carl P. Romao , Dominik M. Juraschek

In this work, we study magnetoelastic interactions by means of ultrasound experiments in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ -- a prototypical material for the Kitaev spin model on the honeycomb lattice, with a possible spin-liquid state featuring Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-17 A. Hauspurg , S. Zherlitsyn , T. Helm , V. Felea , J. Wosnitza , V. Tsurkan , K. -Y. Choi , S. -H. Do , Mengxing Ye , Wolfram Brenig , Natalia B. Perkins

The traditional theory of magnetic moments for chiral phonons is based on the picture of the circular motion of the Born effective charge, typically yielding a small fractional value of the nuclear magneton. Here we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Yafei Ren , Cong Xiao , Daniyar Saparov , Qian Niu

We theoretically explore how light-driven optical phonons can be used to drive magnetic exchange interactions into interesting physical regimes by developing a general theory of spin-phonon pumping in magnetic insulators with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Milan Kornjača , Rebecca Flint

Efficient generation of spin polarization is the central focus of spintronics. In magnetic materials, spin currents can arise from heat currents by the conventional spin Seebeck effect. Recently, chiral phonons with definite handedness and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Xiao Li , Jinxin Zhong , Jinluo Cheng , Hao Chen , Lifa Zhang , Jun Zhou

In this paper, the chiral Hall effect of strained Weyl semimetals without any external magnetic field is proposed. Electron-phonon coupling emerges in the low-energy fermionic sector through a pseudogauge potential. We show that, by using…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Shiva Heidari , Reza Asgari

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…

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…

"Pumping" of phonons by a dynamic magnetization promises to extend the range and functionality of magnonic devices. We explore the impact of phonon pumping on room-temperature ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectra of bilayers of thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Richard Schlitz , Luise Siegl , Takuma Sato , Weichao Yu , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Hans Huebl , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

Lattice vibrations carrying angular momentum, known as chiral phonons, have emerged as a promising route to control and understand complex material properties, yet their deterministic manipulation remains largely unexplored. Here we…

The Ginzburg-Landau Hamiltonian for incommensurate frustrated classical spin systems is analyzed. The coupling to phonons through the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and/or the four-spin exchange interaction of the Coulomb origin under…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Shigeki Onoda , Naoto Nagaosa

When magnons and phonons, the fundamental quasiparticles of the solid, are coupled to one another, they form a new hybrid quasi-particle, leading to novel phenomena and interesting applications. Despite its wide-ranging importance, however,…

We study the topological property of the magnetoelastic excitation in non-collinear antiferromagnets. As a toy model, we consider the magnon-phonon coupling in a triangular antiferromagnet with a $120^\circ$ N\`eel order. We find that in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Sungjoon Park , Bohm-Jung Yang

Chiral phonons have attracted increasing attention, as they play important roles in many different systems and processes. However, a method to control phonon chirality by external fields is still lacking. Here, we propose that in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-21 Hao Chen , Weikang Wu , Kangtai Sun , Shengyuan A. Yang , Lifa Zhang

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 lattice modes are hybrid states arising from chiral plasmonic particles assembled in ordered arrays with opportune periodicity. These resonances exhibit dependence on excitation handedness, and their observation in plasmonic lattices…

Magnetothermal transport in various frustrated magnets exhibits striking field-dependent anomalies that deviate from conventional magnon or phonon transport. To understand such anomalies, we derive an effective spin-phonon Hamiltonian in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-14 Haoting Xu , Antoine Matar , Hae-Young Kee

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

Designing unconventional interactions between single phonons and spins is fascinating for its applications in quantum phononics. Here, we propose a reliable scheme for coupling spins and phonons in phononic dimer and trimer lattices, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Xing-Liang Dong , Cai-Peng Shen , Shao-Yan Gao , Hong-Rong Li , Hong Gao , Fu-Li Li , Peng-Bo Li