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We propose a mechanism of current-induced phonon angular momentum, which we call phonon Edelstein effect. We investigate this effect in three-dimensional chiral metals with spin-orbit coupling and chiral phonons, and obtain an analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Takehito Yokoyama

Chiral phonons offer a route to transfer angular momentum without relying on magnetic order, but their electronic response in metals remains poorly understood from perspectives beyond spin-based scenarios. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 A. Pezo , A. Manchon , Y. Nii , K. Ando , T. Kato

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by helical light beams is an unbounded degree of freedom of photons that offers a promising playground in modern photonics. So far, integrated sources of coherent light carrying OAM are based on…

Nonzero mean value of phonon angular momentum (PAM) in chiral materials can be generated when a temperature gradient is applied. We find that both diagonal and off-diagonal terms of PAM contribute to mean PAM by using the Kubo formula where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Jinxin Zhong , Hong Sun , Yang Pan , Zhiguo Wang , Xiangfan Xu , Lifa Zhang , Jun Zhou

Various electromagnetic systems can carry an angular momentum in their {\bf E} and {\bf B} fields. The electromagnetic field angular momentum (EMAM) of these systems can combine with the spin angular momentum to give composite fermions or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Douglas Singleton , Jerzy Dryzek

Chirality, the breaking of improper rotational symmetry, is a fundamental concept spanning diverse scientific domains. In condensed matter physics, chiral phonons, originating from circular atomic motions that carry angular momentum, have…

Angular momenta of electromagnetic waves are important both in concepts and applications. In this work, we systematically discuss two types of angular momenta, i.e., spin angular momentum and orbital angular momentum in various cases, e.g.,…

A general orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode selection principle is put forward involving the rotationally symmetric superposition of chiral states. This principle is not only capable of explaining the operation of spiral zone plate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Yuanjie Yang , G. Thirunavukkarasu , M. Babiker , Jun Yuan

$A$B$_{2}$ ($A=$K, Rb, Cs) compounds crystallize in the cubic Laves phase (symmetry Fd$\bar{3}$m). The geometry of the crystal structure allows the realization of chiral phonons, which are associated with the circulation of atoms around…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-12 Surajit Basak , Przemysław Piekarz , Andrzej Ptok

The ability to control chirality and chiral phonons offers a route to manipulate the direction of spin and angular-momentum transport. In materials with rigid structural chirality, such as quartz, phonon chirality is fixed by the handedness…

As an attractive degree of freedom in electromagnetic (EM) waves, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) enables infinite communication channels for both classical and quantum communications. The exploration of OAM generation inspires various…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-21 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha

Recently, it has been predicted that the Berry curvature of electrons can produce an angular momentum for phonons. In systems with time-reversal symmetry, the direction of the phonon angular momentum is locked to the phonon wave vector.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Selçuk Parlak , Sayandip Ghosh , Ion Garate

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has gained great interest due to its most attractive feature of high dimensionality, and several ground-breaking demonstrations in communication based on OAM multiplexing have been carried out. Accordingly, a…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-22 Zhihan Zhu , Wei Gao , Chunyuan Mu , Hongwei Li

Axial phonons, carrying angular momentum through rotational lattice vibrations, offer a promising platform for exploring phonon-magnetic coupling effects. However, how the interplay of lattice and magnetism determine the phonon angular…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-29 Fuyi Wang , Junqi Xu , Xinqi Liu , Huaiqiang Wang , Lifa Zhang , Haijun Zhang

We study the interplay between collective electronic and lattice modes in polar metals in an applied magnetic field aligned with the polar axis. Static spin-orbit coupling leads to the appearance of a particle-hole spin-flip continuum that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Abhishek Kumar , Premala Chandra , Pavel A. Volkov

The interplay of spin and lattice fluctuations in two-dimensional magnets without inversion symmetry is investigated. We find a general form for the magnetoelastic coupling between magnons and existing chiral phonons based on the symmetries…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Jose D. Mella , L. E. F. Foa Torres , Roberto E. Troncoso

We investigate spin angular momentum transfer in the Einstein-de Haas effect within prototypical magnetic crystals, focusing on its partition between phonons and rigid-body rotation. Using the Eckart frame to decouple local vibrations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Xin Nie , Wenhao Luo , Kun Cao , Dao-Xin Yao

We report anomalous circularly polarized Raman spectra of phonons in right- and left-handed quartzes. The phonon branches splitting from the E-mode at a finite wavenumber were found to be chiral with mutually opposite angular momenta. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-15 Eiichi Oishi , Yasuhiro Fujii , Akitoshi Koreeda

Despite the growing interest in phonon angular momentum (AM) in recent years, current studies remain limited to a few materials due to the constraints imposed by time reversal symmetry on macroscopic phonon AM. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-09 Hong Sun , Xiaozhe Li , Lifa Zhang

We generalize the momentum average (MA) approximation to study the properties of models with momentum-dependent electron-phonon coupling. As in the case of the application of the original MA to the Holstein model, the results are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Glen L. Goodvin , Mona Berciu