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Conventional ab initio methods fail to describe the emergence of chiral phonons driven by electronic ordering. Here, we develop an ab initio framework, grounded in molecular Berry curvature (MBC), that captures electronic-order-driven…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-25 Shuai Zhang , Mengqi Wang , Tiantian Zhang

Our world is composed of various materials with different structures, where spin structures have been playing a pivotal role in spintronic devices of the contemporary information technology. Apart from conventional collinear spin materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Peixin Qin , Han Yan , Xiaoning Wang , Zexin Feng , Huixin Guo , Xiaorong Zhou , Haojiang Wu , Xin Zhang , Zhaoguogang Leng , Hongyu Chen , Zhiqi Liu

The coupling between ferroelectrics and magnetism presents a promising avenue for low-dissipation spintronic devices. However, such couplings remain rare, and the direct realization of magnetic order driven by ferroelectric switching in…

Indirect long range interactions between localized magnetic moments are in metals mediated by itinerant electrons. In insulators and semi-conductor, such interactions need to be small, if not negligible, due to the absence of mediating…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-17 J. Fransson

Weyl quasiparticles, as gapless low-energy excitations with nontrivial chirality, have garnered extensive interest in recent years. However, archieving effective and reversible control over their chirality (topological charge) remains a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-19 Zeling Li , Yu liu , Le Du , Fengyu Li , Zhifeng Liu , Lei Li , Lei Wang , Botao Fu , Xiao-Ping Li

Chiral coupling opens new avenues for controlling and exploiting light-matter interactions. We demonstrate that chiral coupling can be utilized to achieve unidirectional perfect absorption. In our experiments, chiral magnon-photon coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Jie Qian , Qi Hong , Zi-Yuan Wang , Wen-Xin Wu , Yihao Yang , C. -M. Hu , J. Q. You , Yi-Pu Wang

Photons with spin angular momentum possess intrinsic chirality which underpins many phenomena including nonlinear optics1, quantum optics2, topological photonics3 and chiroptics4. Intrinsic chirality is weak in natural materials, and recent…

The recent observation of a half-integer quantized thermal Hall effect in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ is interpreted as a unique signature of a chiral spin liquid with a Majorana edge mode. A similar quantized thermal Hall effect is expected in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-03 Yuval Vinkler-Aviv , Achim Rosch

Selectively exciting and manipulating phonons at nanoscale becomes more and more important but still remains challenging in modern nano-energy control and information sensing. Here, we show that the phonon spin angular momentum provides an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Jia Li , Yu-Tao Tan , Yizhou Liu , Jie Ren

Electrons which are slowly moving through chiral magnetic textures can effectively be described as if they where influenced by electromagnetic fields emerging from the real-space topology. This adiabatic viewpoint has been very successful…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-23 Fabian R. Lux , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

We report anomalous circularly polarized Raman spectra of phonons in right- and left-handed quartzes. The phonon branches splitting from the E-mode at a finite wavenumber were found to be chiral with mutually opposite angular momenta. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-15 Eiichi Oishi , Yasuhiro Fujii , Akitoshi Koreeda

Chirality is a fundamental organizing principle of correlated and topological states. In quantum magnets, chirality arises from the geometric twisting of spins and serves as an emergent source of Berry curvature and quantum metrics.…

Chiral magnons, the quanta of handed spin waves, transport spin angular momentum without energy loss due to Joule heating. The recently discovered altermagnets were proposed to host chiral magnons arising from a non-relativistic exchange…

Chiral coupling at the single-quantum level promises to be a remarkable potential for quantum information processing. Here we propose to achieve a chiral interaction between a magnon mode in a ferromagnetic sphere and a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Ya-long Ren , Sheng-li Ma , Fu-li Li

We introduce a quasi-phase-matched technique in quadratic nonlinear crystals, constructing an artificial gauge field by changing the inclination angle of stripes, which is realized by the positive and negative polarization directions of…

We identify a new contribution to the chiral magnetic conductivity at finite frequencies -- the magnetization current. This allows to quantitatively reproduce the known field-theoretic time-dependent (AC) chiral magnetic response in terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Mikhail A. Stephanov , Ho-Ung Yee

Binary compounds $A$Bi ($A$ = K, Rb, Cs) crystallize in P2$_1$/c structure containing both clockwise and anticlockwise chiral chains of Bi atoms. Electronic band structure exhibits the insulating nature of these systems, with the band gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-06 Jakub Skórka , Konrad J. Kapcia , Paweł T. Jochym , Andrzej Ptok

We consider quantum condensed matter systems without particle-number conservation. Since the particle number is not a good quantum number, states belonging to different particle-number sectors can hybridize, which causes topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Alexander Mook , Rhea Hoyer , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Cavity magnonics explores the hybridization of photons and magnons within microwave resonators. One of the hallmarks of these systems is their ability to exhibit non-reciprocity, which is a key feature for radio frequency (RF) applications.…

Unlike the chirality of electrons, the intrinsic chirality of phonons has only surfaced in recent years. Here we report on the effects of the interaction between electrons and chiral phonons in two-dimensional materials by using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , Hernán L. Calvo , Luis E. F. Foa Torres