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Chiral phonons were initially proposed and further verified experimentally in two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal crystal lattices. Many intriguing features brought about by chiral phonons are attributed to the pseudo-angular momenta which are…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-10 Qianqian Wang , Si Li , Jiaojiao Zhu , Hao Chen , Weikang Wu , Weibo Gao , Lifa Zhang , Shengyuan A. Yang

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

$A$B$_{2}$ ($A=$K, Rb, Cs) compounds crystallize in the cubic Laves phase (symmetry Fd$\bar{3}$m). The geometry of the crystal structure allows the realization of chiral phonons, which are associated with the circulation of atoms around…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-12 Surajit Basak , Przemysław Piekarz , Andrzej Ptok

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

A theoretical investigation of the possible existence of the chiral polaron formation in graphene is reported. We present an analytical method to calculate the ground-state of the electron-phonon system within the framework of the Lee-Low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 B. S. Kandemir

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…

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

Chiral phonons are desirable for applications in spintronics but their generation and control remains a challenge.Here we demonstrate the emergence of truly chiral phonons from selective magnon-phonon coupling in inversion-symmetric…

Chirality, the breaking of improper rotational symmetry, is a fundamental concept spanning diverse scientific domains. In condensed matter physics, chiral phonons, originating from circular atomic motions that carry angular momentum, have…

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

Phonons are quanta of lattice vibrations, and their modes (linear, circular, or stationary) are symmetry-determined. Circularly polarized phonons, possessing nonzero angular momentum (AM), have drawn widespread attention recently. Despite…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Shuai Zhang , Zhiheng Huang , Muchen Du , Tianping Ying , Luojun Du , Tiantian Zhang

Lattice vibrations can carry angular momentum and magnetic moments under broken inversion or time-reversal symmetry, forming so-called chiral phonons. While such excitations have been explored in nonmagnetic systems via optical probes,…

Chiral phonons, circularly polarized lattice vibrations carrying intrinsic angular momentum, offer unprecedented opportunities for controlling heat flow, manipulating quantum states through spin-phonon coupling, and realizing exotic…

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 phonons, originally identified in two-dimensional hexagonal lattices and later extended to kagome, square, and other lattices, have been extensively studied as manifestations of broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-03 Ravi Kiran , A. Taraphder

Chiral phonons provide a route to couple lattice motion to magnetic order, but conventional chiral phonons carry a net angular momentum and thus couple naturally to net magnetization rather than to compensated N\'eel order. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Sanjib Kumar Das , Randy Yeh , Yafei Ren

Chiral phonons are the ones with nonzero polarization and can be observed only via a selective coupling with valley electrons and circularly polarized photons. In such process, a new physical quantity, i.e., pseudo-angular momentum (PAM),…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-24 Tiantian Zhang , Shuichi Murakami

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…

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

Recently, phonons with chirality (chiral phonons) have attracted significant attention. Chiral phonons exhibit angular and pseudo-angular momenta. In circularly polarized Raman spectroscopy, the peak split of the $\Gamma_3$ mode is…

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