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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…

We derive the normal modes for a rotating Coulomb ion crystal in a Penning trap, quantize the motional degrees of freedom, and illustrate how they can by driven by a spin-dependent optical dipole force to create a quantum spin simulator on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 C. -C. Joseph Wang , Adam C. Keith , J. K. Freericks

Chiral molecules can selectively transport electrons of a particular spin orientation, yet the underlying mechanism remain poorly understood. Here, we present theoretical evidence that electrons propagating through chiral materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-01 Xiaoming Wang , Yeming Xian , Yanfa Yan

It was recently discovered that atoms subject to a time-periodic drive can give rise to a crystal structure in phase space. In this work, we point out the atom-atom interactions give rise to collective phonon excitations of phase-space…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-08 Lingzhen Guo , Vittorio Peano , Florian Marquardt

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

Circularly polarized phonons offer a new route for mediating angular momentum in solids. However, controlling phonon angular momentum without altering the material's structure or composition remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Fangliang Wu , Jing Zhou , Song Bao , Liangyue Li , Jinsheng Wen , Yuan Wan , Qi Zhang

The orbital motion of chargeless bosons, unlike that of electrons, does not generate a magnetic moment and thus cannot directly interact with magnetic fields. To formulate the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of magnons, we first identify its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Junyu Tang , Ran Cheng

The elucidation of the mechanisms behind chiral-induced spin selectivity remains an outstanding scientific challenge. Here we consider the role of delocalised phonon modes in electron transport in chiral structures and demonstrate that spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Clemens Vittmann , James Lim , Dario Tamascelli , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Chiral phonons with atomic rotations converted into electron spins result in a change of spin magnetizations in crystals. In this paper, we investigate a new conversion of chiral phonons into magnons both in ferromagnets and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Dapeng Yao , Shuichi Murakami

We demonstrate through first-principles calculations applied to the K$_{3}$NiO$_{2}$ crystal that a structural phase transition from an achiral to a chiral phase can be mediated by a degenerate soft phonon mode and controlled by pressure…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-30 Mauro Fava , Emma McCabe , Aldo H. Romero , Eric Bousquet

Phonon angular momentum in chiral materials has been widely studied in spintronics and condensed matter physics. In chiral crystals, this is not the conserved quantity in contrast to the pseudo-angular momentum. To highlight this point and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-30 Akihito Kato , Jun-ichiro Kishine

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…

A generation, propagation, and transfer of phonon angular momenta are examined on thermal transport in chiral insulative and diamagnetic crystals of $\alpha$-quartz. We found that thermally-driven phonons carry chirality-dependent angular…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-31 Kazuki Ohe , Hiroaki Shishido , Masaki Kato , Shoyo Utsumi , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Yoshihiko Togawa

In the present work we have demonstrated a possibility for real-time operation by orbital an-gular momentum (OAM) of optical beams via Pockels effect in solid crystalline materials. Basing on the analysis of optical Fresnel ellipsoid…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ihor Skab , Yurij Vasylkiv , Ihor Smaga , Rostyslav Vlokh

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…

The metallic surface states of a topological insulator support helical Dirac fermions protected by topology with their spin locked perpendicular to their momentum. They can acquire mass through magnetic doping or through hybridization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Zhou Li , J. P. Carbotte

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…

The coupling between electrons and phonons is at the heart of many fundamental phenomena in physics. In nature, this coupling is generally predetermined for both, molecules and solids. Tremendous advances have been made in controlling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Avishai Benyamini , Assaf Hamo , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy , Felix von Oppen , Shahal Ilani

A new physical mechanism to achieve spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion based on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized (CP) laser beam with a plane foil is presented and studied for the first time. It has been verified…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Shasha Li , Xiaomei Zhang , Weifeng Gong , Zhigang Bu , Baifei Shen

Optical beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) have numerous potential applications, but the means used for their generation often lack crucial on-demand control. In this work, we present a mechanism of converting spin angular momentum…