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Circularly polarized lattice vibrations carry angular momentum and lead to magnetic responses in applied magnetic fields or when resonantly driven with ultrashort laser pulses. Recent measurements have found responses that are orders of…

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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

We theoretically investigate magnon-phonon hybrid excitations in two-dimensional ferromagnets. The bulk bands of hybrid excitations, which are referred to as magnon-polarons, are analytically shown to be topologically nontrivial, possessing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-11 Gyungchoon Go , Se Kwon Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee

Hexagonal two-dimensional materials with broken inversion symmetry (as BN or transition metal dichalcodenides) are known to sustain chiral phonons with finite angular momentum, adding a further useful degree of freedom to the extraordinary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Habib Rostami , Francisco Guinea , Emmanuele Cappelluti

We experimentally observe the generation of magnon harmonics and subharmonics in an on-chip surface acoustic wave resonator incorporating a thin Co$_{20}$Fe$_{60}$B$_{20}$ film, using micro-focused Brillouin light scattering. In our…

In this Letter, we predict a structural phase transition unique to chiral crystals with screw symmetry. In chiral crystals, the phonon frequency renormalized by the electron-phonon coupling depends on the handedness of circular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Shun Asano , Youichi Yanase

Phonon chirality has attracted intensive attention since it breaks the traditional cognition that phonons are linear propagating bosons. This new quasiparticle property has been extensively studied theoretically and experimentally. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Qingan Cai , Olle Hellman , Bin Wei , Qiyang Sun , Ayman H. Said , Thomas Gog , Barry Winn , Chen Li

Phonons are ubiquitous quasiparticles in solid state systems describing the quantized vibrations of a crystal lattice. Phonons play a central role in a wide range of physical phenomena, from transport to symmetry-breaking orders, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Tiantian Zhang , Yizhou Liu , Hu Miao , Shuichi Murakami

The interplay of spin and lattice fluctuations in two-dimensional magnets without inversion symmetry is investigated. We find a general form for the magnetoelastic coupling between magnons and existing chiral phonons based on the symmetries…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Jose D. Mella , L. E. F. Foa Torres , Roberto E. Troncoso

Truly chiral phonons are lattice eigenmodes that combine broken mirror symmetry with circular atomic motion. They can mediate angular-momentum-selective interactions in quantum materials, yet directly resolving both their chirality and…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-29 Yuhan Wang , Yuxuan Wei , Li Huang , Chuanshan Tian

Lattice vibrations can carry angular momentum and magnetic moments under broken inversion or time-reversal symmetry, forming so-called chiral phonons. While such excitations have been explored in nonmagnetic systems via optical probes,…

We apply a recently developed first-principles based approach for treating generic spin-phonon couplings in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling to study $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$. Of particular focus is the potential for this material to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-12 Ramesh Dhakal , David A. S. Kaib , Kate Choi , Sananda Biswas , Roser Valenti , Stephen M. Winter

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…

A photon-magnon hybrid system can be realised by coupling the electron spin resonance of a magnetic material to a microwave cavity mode. The quasiparticles associated with the system dynamics are the cavity magnon polaritons, which arise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 N. Crescini , C. Braggio , G. Carugno , A. Ortolan , G. Ruoso

We have studied the magnetic response of transverse optical phonons in Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_{x}$Te films. Polarization-dependent terahertz magnetospectroscopy measurements revealed Zeeman splittings and diamagnetic shifts, demonstrating that these…

We investigate the chirality of phonon modes in twisted bilayer WSe2 and demonstrate distinct chiral behavior of the $K/K^\prime$ valley phonons for twist angles close to $0^{\circ}$ and close to $60^{\circ}$. In particular, multiple chiral…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-26 Indrajit Maity , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

The possibility of creating and manipulating nanostructured materials encouraged the exploration of new strategies to control electromagnetic properties. Among the most intriguing nanostructures are those that respond differently to helical…

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

Non-Hermiticity and chirality are two fundamental properties known to give rise to various intriguing phenomena. However, the interplay between these properties has been rarely explored. In this work, we bridge this gap by introducing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Haowei Xu , Guoqing Wang , Changhao Li , Hao Tang , Paola Cappellaro , Ju Li

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