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An unexpectedly large transient magnetization induced by circularly polarized ferroelectric phonons was recently observed in a nonmagnetic insulator SrTiO3 [Nature 628, 534 (2024)]. We use a minimal molecular orbital model to demonstrate…
We develop a coarse-grained theoretical description of the macroscopic emergent electric field generated by phonon-coupled lattice deformations in the breathing and rotational dynamics of a skyrmion lattice under microwave excitation. The…
Dynamical control of Berry curvature remains an outstanding challenge in the engineering of topological phases. Here, we demonstrate control of magnon band structures via coherently driven phonons, based on \textit{ab initio} spin-lattice…
Symmetry classification of crystal structures has been central to predicting physical properties of materials. While such structural classification identifies which physical responses are symmetry-allowed, the magnitudes of these responses…
Magnetic toroidal order features a loop-like arrangement of magnetic dipole moments, thus breaking both spatial inversion (P) and time-reversal (T) symmetries while preserving their combined PT sym-metry. This PT symmetry enables a linear…
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…
A detection of B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies would confirm the presence of a primordial gravitational wave background (GWB). In the inflation paradigm this would be an unprecedented probe of the…
We report new results for lattice gauge theories with twelve fermion flavors in the fundamental representation and two fermion flavors in the two-index symmetric (sextet) representation of the SU(3) color gauge group. Both models are…
We develop the foundations of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for eccentric binary coalescences that includes the conservative dynamics, radiation reaction, and gravitational waveform modes from the inspiral and the merger-ringdown…
The electron temperature dependent electron density of states, Fermi-Dirac distribution, and electron-phonon spectral function are computed as prerequisites before achieving effective electron-phonon coupling factor. The obtained coupling…
We identify a magnetoelectric correction that completes the theoretical description of spin splitting (SS) in magnetic systems. Derived from the Dirac equation, this term couples local magnetic moments to the scalar electric potential,…
We extend the beat-wave framework for laser harmonic generation - where spectra form regular lattices in Fourier space - to the nonlinear response of isotropic chiral media driven by locally chiral light. We represent the enantio-sensitive…
We report an advanced formulation of the Fourier modal method developed for two-dimensionally periodic multilayered structures containing materials with non-zero macroscopic magneto-electric coefficients (also known as coefficients of…
Light-induced coherent phonons provide a powerful platform for ultrafast control of material properties. However, the microscopic theory and quantum geometric nature of this phenomenon remain underexplored. Here, we develop a fully…
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…
Bound states in the continuum (BICs), which are confined optical modes exhibiting infinite quality factors and carrying topological polarization configurations in momentum space, have recently sparked significant interest across both…
We theoretically study the Berry curvature of the magnon induced by the hybridization with the acoustic phonons via the spin-orbit and dipolar interactions. We first discuss the magnon-phonon hybridization via the dipolar interaction, and…
We consider coupling of acoustic phonon to pseudospins consisting of electronic spins locked to orbital angular momentum states. We show that a Berry phase term arises from projection onto the time-dependent lowest energy manifold. We…
Recent ultrafast magnetic-sensitive measurements [Phys. Rev. B 92, 184429 (2015) and Phys. Rev. B 96, 184414 (2017)] have revealed a delayed melting of the long-range cycloid spin-order in TbMnO$_3$ following photoexcitation across the…