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Phonon modes in crystals can have angular momenta in general. It nevertheless cancels in equilibrium when the time-reversal symmetry is preserved. In this paper we show that when a temperature gradient is applied and heat current flows in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Masato Hamada , Emi Minamitani , Motoaki Hirayama , Shuichi Murakami

The current understanding of chirality suggests the existence of a connection between structure and angular momentum, including spin. This is particularly emphasised in the chiral induced spin selectivity effect, where chiral structures act…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 J. Fransson

In crystals with time-reversal symmetry but without inversion symmetry, the phonon angular momentum can be generated by the temperature gradient, and it is called phonon thermal Edelstein effect. On the other hand, when both symmetries are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Masato Hamada , Shuichi Murakami

We theoretically propose chiral magnon in ferromagnetic chiral crystals. We show that the crystal chirality is imprinted in orbital angular momentum of magnons which exhibits the opposite signs for opposite chiralities of the crystal. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Dapeng Yao , Takehito Yokoyama

Phonon angular momentum in chiral materials has been widely studied in spintronics and condensed matter physics. In chiral crystals, this is not the conserved quantity in contrast to the pseudo-angular momentum. To highlight this point and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-30 Akihito Kato , Jun-ichiro Kishine

A generation, propagation, and transfer of phonon angular momenta are examined on thermal transport in chiral insulative and diamagnetic crystals of $\alpha$-quartz. We found that thermally-driven phonons carry chirality-dependent angular…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-31 Kazuki Ohe , Hiroaki Shishido , Masaki Kato , Shoyo Utsumi , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Yoshihiko Togawa

We explicitly derive the wavefunctions of chiral phonons propagating along the helical axis in chiral crystals and clarify the characteristics of electron-phonon interactions in chiral helical crystals. In particular, we elucidate how the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-07 Tomomi Tateishi , Akihito Kato , Jun-ichiro Kishine

We demonstrate a spin to charge current conversion via magnon-phonon coupling and inverse Edelstein effect on the hybrid device Ni/Cu(Ag)/Bi$_{2}$O$_{3}$. The generation of spin current ($J_{s}\approx 10^{8}A/m^{2}$) due to magnon - phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Mingran Xu , Jorge Puebla , Florent Auvray , Bivas Rana , Kouta Kondou , Yoshichika Otani

We theoretically elucidate the transfer of phonon angular momentum by acoustic modes across a smooth interface between crystals. We analyze this process, which is difficult to describe with the conventional acoustic mismatch model, using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Yuta Suzuki , Shuntaro Sumita , Yusuke Kato

The nonlinear optical responses of chiral phonons to terahertz and infrared light are studied using the nonlinear response theory. We show that the photo-induced angular momentum increases with the square of the chiral-phonon relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Masahiro Sato

We study angular momentum of phonons in a magnetic crystal. In the presence of a spin-phonon interaction, we obtain a nonzero angular momentum of phonons, which is an odd function of magnetization. At zero temperature, phonon has a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 Lifa Zhang , Qian Niu

Chiral phonons have attracted increasing attention, as they play important roles in many different systems and processes. However, a method to control phonon chirality by external fields is still lacking. Here, we propose that in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-21 Hao Chen , Weikang Wu , Kangtai Sun , Shengyuan A. Yang , Lifa Zhang

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

We theoretically study current-induced orbital magnetization in a chiral crystal. This phenomenon is an orbital version of the Edelstein effect. We propose an analogy between the current-induced orbital magnetization and an Amp\`ere field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Taiki Yoda , Takehito Yokoyama , Shuichi Murakami

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…

Recently the question of phonon angular momentum has been raised : phonon angular momentum in a magnetic crystal could play an important role in the angular momentum balance in the Einstein-de Haas effect. This proposition is quite natural…

General Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 S C Tiwari

The phonon inverse Faraday effect describes the emergence of a DC magnetization due to circularly polarized phonons. In this work we present a microscopic formalism for the phonon inverse Faraday effect. The formalism is based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-10 Natalia Shabala , R. Matthias Geilhufe

In ionic materials, circularly polarized phonons carry orbital magnetic moments that arise from circular motions of the ions, and which interact with other magnetic moments or fields. Here, we calculate the orbital magnetic moments of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-12 Dominik M. Juraschek , Nicola A. Spaldin

The Edelstein effect is the origin of the spin-orbit torque: a current-induced torque that is used for the electrical control of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials. This effect originates from the relativistic spin-orbit…

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), a phenomenon wherein chiral structures selectively determine the spin polarization of electron currents flowing through the material, has garnered significant attention due to its potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Börge Göbel , Lennart Schimpf , Ingrid Mertig
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