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The coherent modulation of electronic and vibrational nonlinearities in atoms and molecular gases by intense few-cycle pulses has been used for high-harmonic generation in the soft X-ray and attosecond regime, as well as for Raman frequency…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-16 Muneaki Hase , Masayuki Katsuragawa , Anca Monia Constantinescu , Hrvoje Petek

The aim of this work is to describe the behavior of a device capable to generate high frequency (~THz) acoustic phonons. This device consists in a GaAs-AlGaAs double barrier heterostructure that, when an external bias is applied, produces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Camps , S. S. Makler , H. M. Pastawski , L. E. F. Foa Torres

Altermagnets have recently attracted considerable interest due to their unique symmetry-governed spintronic properties. Here, we investigate phonon-induced magnon spin currents in a two-dimensional altermagnet. Starting from a microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Sofie Helene Ursin , Mathias Kläui , Kjetil M. D. Hals

Nonlinear processes involving frequency-mixing of light fields set the basis for ultrafast coherent spectroscopy of collective modes in solids. In certain semimetals and semiconductors, generation of coherent phonon modes can occur by a…

A major question in the field of femtosecond laser-induced demagnetization is whereto the angular momentum lost by the electrons is transferred. Recent ultrafast electron diffraction measurements [Tauchert \textit{et al.}, Nature {\bf 602},…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-08 M. S. Mrudul , Markus Weißenhofer , Peter M. Oppeneer

In chiral crystals, two types of phonon angular momenta have been introduced. One is crystal angular momentum (CAM) arising from the rotational or screw-rotational symmetry and the other is mechanical angular momentum (MAM) associated with…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Akihito Kato , Nobuhiko Yokoshi , Jun-ichiro Kishine

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

Coherent manipulation of magnetism through the lattice provides unprecedented opportunities for controlling spintronic functionalities on the ultrafast timescale. Such nonthermal control conventionally involves nonlinear excitation of…

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

We propose a mechanism of current-induced phonon angular momentum, which we call phonon Edelstein effect. We investigate this effect in three-dimensional chiral metals with spin-orbit coupling and chiral phonons, and obtain an analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Takehito Yokoyama

Using optical technology for current injection and electromagnetic emission simplifies the comparison between materials. Here, we inject current into monolayer graphene and bulk gallium arsenide (GaAs) using two-color quantum interference…

A microscopic theory of the phonon-induced resistance oscillations in weak perpendicular magnetic fields is presented. The calculations are based on the consideration of interaction of two-dimensional electrons with three-dimensional (bulk)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-02 O. E. Raichev

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

Strong coupling between magnon and electromagnetic wave can lead to the formation of a coupled spinphoton quasiparticle named as magnon-polariton. The phenomenon is well studied for ferromagnetic systems inside microwave cavities in recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-24 L. Y. Shi , D. Wu , Z. X. Wang , T. Lin , C. M. Hu , N. L. Wang

The origin of the phonon thermal Hall effect in insulators is a matter of ongoing debate. The large amplitude of the signal in an elemental non-magnetic solid, such as black phosphorus (BP), calls for a minimal mechanism not invoking the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-09 Xiaokang Li , Xiaodong Guo , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

Materials exhibit various wave-like excitations, among which phonons (lattice vibrations) and magnons (oscillations in ferromagnetic ordering) hold significant promise for future nanoscale technologies. Exploring the interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 A. L. Bassant , M. F. van Willigen , R. A. Duine

Recent experiments demonstrate precise control over coherently excited circular phonon modes using high-intensity terahertz lasers, opening new pathways towards dynamical, ultrafast design of magnetism in functional materials. While the…

The manipulation of TO-phonon polaritons and the terahertz (THz) light field associated with them by means of an ultra-sound acoustic wave is proposed and illustrated by calculating the TO-phonon-mediated THz response of acoustically-pumped…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-05-15 R. H. Poolman , E. A. Muljarov , A. L. Ivanov

Spin and orbital angular momenta of light are attractive resources to harness for encoding, and manipulating information, with applications in various quantum photonic technologies. However, to fully harness that potential, we require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Elisabeth Wagner , Mikolaj K. Schmidt , Michael J. Steel , Polina R. Sharapova

Lattice vibration in solids may carry angular momentum. But unlike the intrinsic spin of electrons, the lattice vibration is rarely rotational. To induce angular momentum, one needs to find a material that can accommodate a twisted normal…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-29 G. P. Zhang , Y. H. Bai , Thomas F. George