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Magnetic layered materials have emerged recently as promising systems to introduce magnetism in structures based on two-dimensional (2D) materials and to investigate exotic magnetic ground states in the 2D limit. In this work, we apply high…

Altermagnet (AM) is a novel time reversal symmetry broken magnetic phase with $d$-wave order which has been experimentally realized recently. We discuss theoretical models of altermagnet based systems on lattice and in continuum. We show…

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The sound propagation properties resulting from a dynamical axion insulator generated from a Weyl semimetal are explored. Due to the axial electron-phonon coupling, the speed of sound in the material and its attenuation is seen to be…

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In recent studies, it has been discovered that phonons can carry angular momentum, leading to a series of investigations into systems with 3-fold rotation symmetry. However, for systems with 2-fold screw rotational symmetry, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-01 Meiqi Li , Zhibing Li , Huanjun Chen , Weiliang Wang

Motivated by the recent discovery of anomalously large magnetic response of chiral phonons in dipolar magnets, we explore an extension to study Einstein quantum phonon modes coupled to multipolar moments. We consider the case of non-Kramers…

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Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials are widely used in spintronic devices as passive elements (for stabilization of ferromangetic layers) and as active elements (for information coding). In both cases switching between the different AFM…

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Phonon nonreciprocity, indicating different transport properties along opposite directions, has been observed in experiments under a magnetic field. We show that nonreciprocal acoustic phonons can also exist without a magnetic field nor net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Yafei Ren , Daniyar Saparov , Qian Niu

Altermagnets (AMs), recently discovered unconventional magnets distinct from both ferro- and antiferromagnets, have rapidly emerged as a prominent research topic in condensed matter physics. AMs are characterized by alternating collinear…

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Microscopic coupling between the electron spin and the lattice vibration is responsible for an array of exotic properties from morphic effects in simple magnets to magnetodielectric coupling in multiferroic spinels and hematites.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-22 Mingqiang Gu , Y. H. Bai , G. P. Zhang , Thomas F. George

Spin Hall effect is the transverse flow of the electron spin in conductors under external electric field. Similarly, thermal gradient in magnetic insulators can drive a transverse flow of the spin angular momentum of magnons, which provides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Sungjoon Park , Bohm-Jung Yang

Altermagnets, a unique class of magnetic materials that combines features of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, have garnered attention for their potential in spintronics and magnonics. While the electronic properties of altermagnets…

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

Recently the question of phonon angular momentum has been raised : phonon angular momentum in a magnetic crystal could play an important role in the angular momentum balance in the Einstein-de Haas effect. This proposition is quite natural…

General Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 S C Tiwari

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…

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We describe a peculiar fine structure acquired by the in-plane optical phonon at the Gamma-point in graphene when it is brought into resonance with one of the inter-Landau-level transitions in this material. The effect is most pronounced…

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The angular momentum interconversion between electron spin and other type of angular momenta is useful to develop new spintronic functionalities. The conversions from the angular momentum of photon and mechanical rotation to ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 R. Sasaki , Y. Nii , Y. Onose

We identify a new resonance, axion magnetic resonance (AMR), that can greatly enhance the conversion rate between axions and photons. A series of axion search experiments rely on converting them into photons inside a constant magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-12 Hyeonseok Seong , Chen Sun , Seokhoon Yun

Altermagnet (AM), a recently identified class of collinear magnet, has garnered significant attention due to its unique combination of zero net magnetization and spin-split energy bands, leading to a variety of novel physical phenomena.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Miaomiao Zhao , Wei-Wei Yang , Yin Zhong

The plethora of recent discoveries in the field of topological electronic insulators has inspired a search for boson systems with similar properties. There are predictions that ferromagnets on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice may host…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Even Thingstad , Akashdeep Kamra , Arne Brataas , Asle Sudbø

Circularly polarized phonons, characterized by nonzero angular momenta and magnetic moments, have attracted extensive attention. However, a long-standing critical issue in this field is the lack of an approach to accurately calculate phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-29 Fuyi Wang , Xinqi Liu , Hong Sun , Huaiqiang Wang , Shuichi Murakami , Lifa Zhang , Haijun Zhang , Dingyu Xing