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We present a microscopic theory of chirality-induced orbital selectivity (CIOS) in helical crystals, in which truly chiral phonons selectively transfer angular momentum to electronic orbital degrees of freedom. For a threefold helical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-22 Tomomi Tateishi , Akihito Kato , Alexander S. Ovchinnikov , Jun-ichiro Kishine

The notion that phonons can carry pseudo-angular momentum has become popular in the last decade, with recent research efforts highlighting phonon chirality, Berry curvature of phonon band structure, and the phonon Hall effect. When a phonon…

Chiral phonons have been identified in several chiral crystals, primarily in those with trigonal symmetry and threefold screw axes. In this study, chiral phonons in CrSi$_2$, a chiral crystal with a sixfold helical structure, were…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-20 Gakuto Kusuno , Shingo Kisanuki , Yusuke Kousaka , Yoshihiko Togawa , Takuya Satoh

The concept of chirality is of great relevance in nature, from chiral molecules such as sugar to parity transformations in particle physics. In condensed matter physics, recent studies have demonstrated chiral fermions and their relevance…

Chiral phonons possessing valley pseudo angular momentum (PAM) underlie a diversity of quantum phenomena of fundamental and applied importance, but are challenging to probe directly. We show that deficiencies of typical momentum-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-02 Marc R. Bourgeois , Andrew W. Rossi , David J. Masiello

Quasiparticles describe collective excitations in many-body systems, and their symmetry classification is of fundamental importance because they govern physical processes on various timescales, e.g., excited states, transport phenomena, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-29 Hiroki Ueda , Abhishek Nag , Carl P. Romao , Mirian García-Fernández , Ke-Jin Zhou , Urs Staub

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic systems possess versatile magnetic order and can host tunable magnons carrying spin angular momenta. Recent advances show angular momentum can also be carried by lattice vibrations in the form of chiral…

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

We have developed a theory for the energy dispersion of chiral phonons in a simplest cubic lattice. Among all the phonon modes, only the optical triplet modes exhibit the intrinsic characteristics of chiral phonons near k=0, and we examine…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-20 Hirokazu Tsunetsugu , Hiroaki Kusunose

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

The use of phononic crystals for vibration attenuation and isolation has been widely studied, showing that the attenuation frequency range depends on their mass and stiffness. The concepts of chirality and tacticity have been introduced…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Line Mardini , Andrea Bergamini , Claus Claeys , Elke Deckers , Bart Van Damme

We use vortex photon fields with orbital and spin angular momentum to probe chiral fluctuations within liquid crystals. In the regime of iridescence with a well-defined pitch length of chirality, we find low energy Raman scattering that can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-21 Silvia Müllner , Florian Büscher , Angela Möller , Peter Lemmens

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

Chiral phonons, quantized lattice vibrations with circular polarization and non-zero angular momentum, offer new perspectives for phononic and quantum device engineering. Graphyne could be a promising candidate due to its unique lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Subhendu Mishra , Arpan Chakraborty , Douglas S. Galvao , Pedro A. S. Autreto , Abhishek Kumar Singh

We theoretically studied the phonon properties of the triangular-, stripe- and honeycomb-type electronic crystals recently found in two-dimensional semiconductor moir\'e patterns. By analyzing the phonon dispersions, we found the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Hongyi Yu , Jiyong Zhou

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…

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

Features of the phonon spectrum of a chiral crystal are examined within the micropolar elasticity theory. This formalism accounts for not only translational micromotions of a medium but also rotational ones. It is found that there appears…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 J. Kishine , A. S. Ovchinnikov , A. A. Tereshchenko

Breaking down the traditional perception on phonons which are achiral, the recent discovery of chiral phonon carrying angular momentum provides possible ways to couple electron, photon, spin, magnon and exciton, etc. We theoretically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-14 Yi Gao , Yang Pan , Jun Zhou , Lifa Zhang

The ability to control chirality and chiral phonons offers a route to manipulate the direction of spin and angular-momentum transport. In materials with rigid structural chirality, such as quartz, phonon chirality is fixed by the handedness…