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Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers and heterostructures are highly tunable material systems that provide excellent models for physical phenomena at the two-dimensional (2D) limit. While most studies to date have focused on electrons…

We provide a topological understanding on phonon Hall effect in dielectrics with Raman spinphonon coupling. A general expression for phonon Hall conductivity is obtained in terms of the Berry curvature of band structures. We find a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-28 Lifa Zhang , Jie Ren , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

We analyze resonant magneto-elastic interactions between standing perpendicular spin wave modes (exchange magnons) and longitudinal acoustic phonon modes in free-standing hybrid metal-ferromagnet bilayer and trilayer structures. Whereas the…

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…

The integration of ferroelectric (FE) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) orders in twodimensional (2D) materials provides a promising avenue for the nonvolatile control of coupled spin and valley degrees of freedom, a capability central to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Quan Shen , Wenhu Liao , Degao Xu , Jiansheng Dong , Jianing Tan

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…

We perform ab initio calculations of the coupling between electrons and small-momentum polar-optical phonons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides of the 2H type: MoS2, MoSe2, MoTe2, WS2, and WSe2. The so-called Fr\"ohlich…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-07 Thibault Sohier , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

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

In ultrathin ferromagnetic films sandwiched between two distinct heavy metal layers or between a heavy metal and an oxide layer, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is of interfacial origin. Its chirality and strength are determined…

Chiral magnetism, wherein there is a preferred sense of rotation of the magnetization, has become a key aspect for future spintronic applications. It determines the chiral nature of magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, domain walls or spin…

We theoretically investigated the chiral phonons of honeycomb-type bilayer Wigner crystals recently discovered in van der Waals structures of layered transition metal dichalcogenides. These chiral phonons can emerge under the inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Dingrui Yang , Lingyi Li , Na Zhang , Hongyi Yu

We use shear-mode Raman imaging to track ferroelectric switching in multilayer 3$R$-MoS$_2$. Within a single flake, mechanically segmented regions respond independently and follow distinct pathways. Partially polarized end states indicate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Yulu Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaoxiang Xi

Embedding a monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide in a high-Q optical cavity results in the formation of distinct exciton polariton modes. The polaritons are affected by the strong exciton-phonon interaction in the monolayer. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Frank Lengers , Tilmann Kuhn , Doris E. Reiter

In recent years, orbitronic effects have attracted growing attention as complementary counterparts to the well-established spintronic phenomena. In this work, we demonstrate that monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides provide an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Saikat Saha , Arnab Bose , Sayantika Bhowal

Under broken time reversal symmetry such as in the presence of external magnetic field or internal magnetization, a transverse voltage can be established in materials perpendicular to both longitudinal current and applied magnetic field,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-04 Hua Wang , Xiaofeng Qian

Piezotronics is an emerging field, which exploits strain to control the transport properties in condensed matters. At present, piezotronics research majorly focuses on insulators with tunable electric dipole by strain. Metals are excluded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xiao Rui-Chun , Shao Ding-Fu , Zhang Zhi-Qiang , Jiang Hua

The interplay between ferroelectricity, magnetism, and superconductivity provides a rich platform for discovering novel quantum phenomena. Here, we develop an effective theory and propose a heterostructure composed of an antiferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-02 Kai-Zhi Bai , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

The optical and electronic properties of multilayer transition metal dichalcogenides differ significantly from their monolayer counterparts due to interlayer interactions. The separation of individual layers can be tuned in a controlled way…

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…

Light-induced sliding ferroelectricity in two-dimensional van der Waals materials enables polarization control via relative layer motion. However, polarization switching occurs on the time scale of shear modes (tens of ps) and requires very…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Xiangzhou Zhu , Stefano Mocatti , Matteo Calandra