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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

The concept of chirality makes ubiquitous appearance in nature. Particularly, both a structure and its collective excitations may acquire well defined chiralities. In this work, we reveal an intrinsic connection between the chiralities of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-21 Hao Chen , Weikang Wu , Jiaojiao Zhu , Weikang Gong , Weibo Gao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Lifa Zhang

Converting charge current into spin current is one of the main mechanisms exploited in spintronics. One prominent example is the Edelstein effect, namely the generation of a magnetization in response to an external electric field, which can…

We propose a mechanism of supercurrent-induced phonon angular momentum in mixed parity superconductors and s-wave superconductors with spin orbit coupling. We derive analytical expressions of phonon angular momentum induced by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Takehito Yokoyama

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…

Inspired by the recent observation of the orbital Seebeck effect in alpha-quartz, we identify an intrinsic amplification mechanism for thermally generated phonon angular momentum and phonon magnetic moment in chiral insulators. We propose a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-27 Hong Sun , Jinxin Zhong , Yimin Yao , Jun Zhou , Lifa Zhang

Discovered in high-energy physics, the chiral anomaly has recently made way to materials science by virtue of Weyl semimetals (WSM). Thus far, the main efforts to probe the chiral anomaly in WSM have concentrated on electronic phenomena.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-14 Pierre Rinkel , Pedro L. S. Lopes , Ion Garate

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

In the present paper, we propose that the chiral magnetic effect, the direct consequence of the presence of Weyl points in the band structure, can be detected by its coupling to certain phonon modes, which behave like pseudo scalars under…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 Zhida Song , Jimin Zhao , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Swati Chaudhary , Dominik M. Juraschek , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Gregory A. Fiete

High intensity THz lasers allow for the coherent excitation of individual phonon modes. The ultrafast control of emergent magnetism by means of phonons opens up new tuning mechanisms for functional materials. While theoretically predicted…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 R. Matthias Geilhufe , Wolfram Hergert

Magneto-electric effect, that is an appearance of magnetisation induced by electric current is allowed by symmetry in metals with crystal structure without space inversion. The microscopic origin of this effect is spin-orbit coupling of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-22 V. P. Mineev

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

Recent experiment demonstrates magnon to phonon conversion in a YIG film under the application of a non-uniform magnetic field. Light scattered from phonons is observed to change its polarization state interpreted by the authors signifying…

General Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 S C Tiwari

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

We group materials into five symmetry classes and determine in which of these classes phonons carry angular momentum in the Brillouin zone, away from a high-symmetry point, line, or plane. In some materials phonons acquire angular momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-16 Sinisa Coh

We investigate spin angular momentum transfer in the Einstein-de Haas effect within prototypical magnetic crystals, focusing on its partition between phonons and rigid-body rotation. Using the Eckart frame to decouple local vibrations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Xin Nie , Wenhao Luo , Kun Cao , Dao-Xin Yao

We develop an effective medium theory for electromagnetic wave propagation through gapless non-uniform systems with dynamic chiral magnetic effect. The theory allows to calculate macroscopic-disorder-induced corrections to the values of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Jing Ma , D. A. Pesin

Chiral materials, similarly to human hands, have distinguishable right-handed and left-handed enantiomers which may behave differently in response to external stimuli. Here, we use for the first time an approach based on the density…

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