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In recent years, the fundamental physics of spin-thermal (i.e., magnon-phonon) interaction has attracted significant experimental and theoretical interests given its potential paradigm-shifting impacts in areas like spin-thermoelectrics,…
We derive boundary conditions at the interfaces of magnetoelastic heterostructures under ferromagnetic resonance for arbitrary magnetization directions and interface shapes. We apply our formalism to magnet$\vert$nonmagnet bilayers and…
We consider diffusion of vibrations in 3d harmonic lattices with strong force-constant disorder. Above some frequency w_IR, corresponding to the Ioffe-Regel crossover, notion of phonons becomes ill defined. They cannot propagate through the…
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…
Predictive modeling of the phonon/thermal transport properties of materials is vital to rational design for a diverse spectrum of engineering applications. Classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations serve as a tool to simulate the time…
We numerically investigate classical and quantum transport through a soft-wall cavity with mixed dynamics. Remarkable differences to hard-wall quantum dots are found which are, in part, related to the influence of the hierarchical structure…
Natural materials usually consist of isotopic mixtures, for which different isotopic ratios can lead to distinct material properties such as thermal conductivity and nucleation process. However, the knowledge of isotopic interface remains…
Phononic crystals exhibit Bragg bandgaps, frequency regions within which wave propagation is forbidden. In solid continua, bandgaps are the outcome of destructive interferences resulting from periodically alternating layers. Under certain…
Quantum information can be stored in micromechanical resonators, encoded as quanta of vibration known as phonons. The vibrational motion is then restricted to the stationary eigenmodes of the resonator, which thus serves as local storage…
We analyze the ground states and the elementary collective excitations (phonons) of a class of systems, which form cluster crystals in the absence of attractions. Whereas the regime of moderate-to-high-temperatures in the phase diagram has…
In altermagnets, the magnon bands are anisotropically spin-split in reciprocal space without relativistic or dipolar spin-spin interactions. In this work, we theoretically study magnons and phonons coupled by spin-lattice interaction in a…
We explore a nonlinear field model to describe the interplay between the ability of excitons to be Bose condensed and their interaction with other modes of a crystal. We apply our consideration to the long-living paraexcitons in Cu2O.…
We consider a particle transport process in a one-dimensional system with a thin membrane, described by a normal diffusion equation. We consider two boundary conditions at the membrane that are linear combinations of integral operators,…
We discuss surface scattering in terms of bidirectional reflectance distribution function. We formulate a boundary condition that in addition to diffuse and specular reflection has tilted diffuse reflection. We apply the boundary condition…
The spatial extent of excitons in molecular systems underpins their photophysics and utility for optoelectronic applications. Phonons are reported to lead to both exciton localization and delocalization. However, a microscopic understanding…
Analyzing the scattering and conversion process between photons and phonons coupled via radiation pressure in a circular quantum dot on a honeycomb array of optomechanical cells, we demonstrate the emergence of optomechanical Dirac physics.…
Boundary conditions are derived that determine the penetration of spin current through an interface of two non-collinear ferromagnets with an arbitrary angle between their magnetization vectors. We start from the well-known transformation…
Indirect long range interactions between localized magnetic moments are in metals mediated by itinerant electrons. In insulators and semi-conductor, such interactions need to be small, if not negligible, due to the absence of mediating…
We investigate the feasibility of minimum absorption and minimum broadening of pulse propagation in an inhomogeneously broadened semiconductor quantum dot medium. The phonon interaction is inevitable in studying any semiconductor quantum…