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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

We first propose fundamental solutions of wave propagation in one-dimensional dispersive chain subject to a localized initial perturbation in the displacement. Analytical solutions are obtained for both second order nonlinear dispersive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-31 Zhijie Xu

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…

Spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry is investigated in the Hamiltonian approach to QCD in Coulomb gauge. The quark wave functional is determined by the variational principle using an ansatz which goes beyond the commonly used BCS-type…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Markus Pak , Hugo Reinhardt

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

In this paper, the chiral Hall effect of strained Weyl semimetals without any external magnetic field is proposed. Electron-phonon coupling emerges in the low-energy fermionic sector through a pseudogauge potential. We show that, by using…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Shiva Heidari , Reza Asgari

We study the phonon modes of interacting particles on the surface of a truncated cone resting on a plane subject to gravity, inspired by recent colloidal experiments. We derive the ground state configuration of the particles under…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 Grace H. Zhang , David R. Nelson

Phonon chirality has attracted intensive attention since it breaks the traditional cognition that phonons are linear propagating bosons. This new quasiparticle property has been extensively studied theoretically and experimentally. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Qingan Cai , Olle Hellman , Bin Wei , Qiyang Sun , Ayman H. Said , Thomas Gog , Barry Winn , Chen Li

Chiral structures that produce asymmetric spin-phonon coupling can theoretically generate spin-phonon polarons -- quasiparticles exhibiting non-degenerate spin states with phonon displacements. These quasiparticles are speculated to be the…

At the 2D limit, hexagonal systems such as monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and graphene exhibit unique coupled spin and momentum-valley physics (valley pseudospin) owing to broken spatial inversion symmetry and strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Tristan L Britt , Bradley J. Siwick

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 is an indispensable concept that pervades fundamental science and nature, manifesting itself in diverse forms such as chiral quasiparticles and chiral structures. Of particular interest are Weyl phonons carrying specific Chern…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-25 Tiantian Zhang , Zhiheng Huang , Zitian Pan , Luojun Du , Guangyu Zhang , Shuichi Murakami

The optical conductivity of the CuO$_3$-chains, a subsystem of the 1-2-3 materials, is dominated by a broad peak in the mid-infrared ($\omega \approx 0.2$eV), and a slowly falling high-frequency tail. The 1D $t$-$J$-model is proposed as the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Roland Fehrenbacher

Recent laser angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies have established the presence of a new kink in the low-energy nodal dispersion of Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$+{8+\delta}$ (Bi-2212). The energy scale (~8-15 meV) of this kink appears…

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 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…

Chirality characterizes the asymmetry between a structure and its mirror image and underlies a wide range of chiral functionalities. In crystallographically chiral materials, phonons with non-zero linear momentum $\textbf{k}$ can acquire a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 J. Okamoto , C. Y. Mou , H. Y. Huang , G. Channagowdra , C. Won , K. Du , X. Fang , E. V. Komleva , C. T. Chen , S. V. Streltsov , A. Fujimori , S-W. Cheong , D. J. Huang

Weyl semimetals display unusual electronic transport properties when placed under magnetic fields. Here, we investigate how magnetic fields alter the dynamics of long wavelength lattice vibrations in these materials. To that end, we develop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Pierre Rinkel , Pedro L. S. Lopes , Ion Garate

We use the chiral effective field theory to study the lattice finite-volume energy levels from the meson-meson scattering. The hadron resonance properties and the scattering amplitudes at physical masses are determined from the lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-11-15 Zhi-Hui Guo , Liuming Liu , Ulf-G. Meissner , J. A. Oller , A. Rusetsky

We analyze the interaction of lattice vibrations (phonon wave-packets) with an asymmetric kink soliton initially at rest. We employ the $\phi^6$ model in one space and one time dimensions for various lattice spacings and consider two…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-02-05 Danial Saadatmand , Aliakbar Moradi Marjaneh , Alidad Askari , Herbert Weigel