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Chiral phonons offer a route to transfer angular momentum without relying on magnetic order, but their electronic response in metals remains poorly understood from perspectives beyond spin-based scenarios. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 A. Pezo , A. Manchon , Y. Nii , K. Ando , T. Kato

In altermagnets, the magnon bands are anisotropically spin-split in reciprocal space without relativistic or dipolar spin-spin interactions. In this work, we theoretically study magnons and phonons coupled by spin-lattice interaction in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Hannah Bendin , Alexander Mook , Ingrid Mertig , Robin R. Neumann

The influence of electron-phonon interaction on magnetotransport in two-dimensional electron systems under microwave irradiation is studied theoretically. Apart from the phonon-induced resistance oscillations which exist in the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 O. E. Raichev

Circularly polarized phonons offer a new route for mediating angular momentum in solids. However, controlling phonon angular momentum without altering the material's structure or composition remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Fangliang Wu , Jing Zhou , Song Bao , Liangyue Li , Jinsheng Wen , Yuan Wan , Qi Zhang

The elucidation of the mechanisms behind chiral-induced spin selectivity remains an outstanding scientific challenge. Here we consider the role of delocalised phonon modes in electron transport in chiral structures and demonstrate that spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Clemens Vittmann , James Lim , Dario Tamascelli , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

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

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 propose the spin swapping effect for an exchange magnon spin current in a perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic medium with in plane anisotropy on the surface. The excitation of a magnon current flowing along an in-plane direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Shuting Cui , Peng Yan , Wei Luo , Xiaofei Yang , Yue Zhang

We develop a microscopic theory of spin-lattice interactions in magnetic insulators, separating rigid-body rotations and the internal angular momentum, or spin, of the phonons, while conserving the total angular momentum. In the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Andreas Rückriegel , Simon Streib , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Rembert A. Duine

The metallic surface states of a topological insulator support helical Dirac fermions protected by topology with their spin locked perpendicular to their momentum. They can acquire mass through magnetic doping or through hybridization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Zhou Li , J. P. Carbotte

Indirect exchange interaction between magnetic impurities in one dimensional systems is a matter of long discussions since Kittel has established that in the asymptotic limit it decays as the inverse of distance x between the impurities. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 Joelson F. Silva , E. Vernek

Right- and left-handed circularly polarized light interact differently with electronic charges in chiral materials. This asymmetry generates the natural circular dichroism and gyrotropy, also known as the optical activity. Here we…

We study the properties of spin systems realized by cold polar molecules interacting via dipole-dipole interactions in two dimensions. Using a spin wave theory, that allows for the full treatment of the characteristic long-distance tail of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-12 David Peter , Steffen Müller , Stefan Wessel , Hans Peter Büchler

Using one of the methods of quantum nonequilibrium statistical physics we have investigated the spin transport transverse to the normal metal/ferromagnetic insulator interface in hybrid nanostructures. An approximation of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. I. Lyapilin , M. S. Okorokov , V. V. Ustinov

We investigate the influence of the spin-phonon coupling in the triangular antiferromagnet where the coupling is of the exchange-striction type. The magnon dispersion is shown to be modified significantly at wave vector (2pi,0) and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-09 Jung Hoon Kim , Jung Hoon Han

We propose a mechanism to obtain chiral phonon-like excitations from the bond-dependent magnetoelastic couplings in the absence of out-of-plane magnetization and magnetic fields. By mapping the hybrid excitation to its phononic analog, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Bowen Ma , Z. D. Wang , Gang V. Chen

We theoretically investigate the exchange interaction between magnetic impurities in ultrathin Bi$_2$Se$_3$ topological insulator films by taking into account the low-energy states produced by the impurities. We find that the locally…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-30 Mahroo Shiranzaei , Jonas Fransson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Fariborz Parhizgar

The oscillatory interlayer exchange interaction between two magnetic layers separated by a metallic spacer is one of the few coherent quantum phenomena that persist at room temperature. Here we show that this interaction can be controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Uta Meyer , Geraldine Haack , Christoph Groth , Xavier Waintal

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

Dipolar interaction between the magnetic moments of electrons is studied as a source for electron spin decay in quantum dots or arrays of quantum dots. This magnetic interaction will govern spin decay, after other sources, such as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wolfgang Häusler , Peter Hänggi