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We provide a theoretical demonstration of controllable non-relativistic spin splitting in both electronic and magnonic bands via targeted structural distortions tied to specific phonon modes. Using MnF$_2$ as a model system, we identify a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-11 Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay , Anoop Raj , Philippe Ghosez , Sumiran Pujari , Sayantika Bhowal

This study proposes a method to control the frequency-dependent scattering spectra from plasmonic spheres via the conservation of incident orbital angular momentum (OAM). By providing controllable distributions of OAM content, fractional…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Aaron S. Rury

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…

Floquet topological phases emerge when systems are periodically driven out-of-equilibrium. They gained attention due to their external control, which allows to simulate a wide variety of static systems by just tuning the external field in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Álvaro Gómez-León

This paper describes an approach to construct temporally shaped control pulses that drive a quantum system towards desired properties. A parametrization in terms of periodic functions with pre-defined frequencies permits to realize a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Björn Bartels , Florian Mintert

We introduce the concept of Floquet topological magnons --- a mechanism by which a synthetic tunable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) can be generated in quantum magnets using circularly polarized electric (laser) field. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-01 S. A. Owerre

We investigate the topological properties of Floquet-engineered twisted bilayer graphene above the magic angle driven by circularly polarized laser pulses. Employing a full Moir\'e-unit-cell tight-binding Hamiltonian based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-30 Gabriel E. Topp , Gregor Jotzu , James W. McIver , Lede Xian , Angel Rubio , Michael A. Sentef

We present quantum control techniques to engineer flat bands of symmetry-protected Majorana edge modes in s-wave superconductors. Specifically, we show how periodic control may be employed for designing time-independent effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-04 Amrit Poudel , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

Exploring the synergy between topological physics and nonlinear dynamics unveils profound insights into emergent states of matter. Inspired by recent experimental demonstrations of topological frequency combs in photonics, we theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Zhixiong Li , Xuejuan Liu , Zhejunyu Jin , Guanghua Guo , Xingen Zheng , Peng Yan

Phonons and magnons are engineered by periodic potential landscapes in phononic and magnonic crystals, and their combined studies may enable valley phonon transport tunable by the magnetic field. Through nonreciprocal surface acoustic wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Liyang Liao , Jorge Puebla , Kei Yamamoto , Junyeon Kim , Sadamichi Meakawa , Yunyoung Hwang , You Ba , Yoshichika Otani

We provide a topological understanding on phonon Hall effect in dielectrics with Raman spinphonon coupling. A general expression for phonon Hall conductivity is obtained in terms of the Berry curvature of band structures. We find a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-28 Lifa Zhang , Jie Ren , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

We develop a fully first-principles approach for spin dynamics based on density functional perturbation theory. We demonstrate that the magnon wavefunction can be expressed by a set of electronic wavefunctions obtained from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-08 Xiaoqiang Liu , Ji Feng , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu

Altermagnets present a class of fully compensated collinear magnetic order, where the two sublattices are not related merely by time-reversal combined with lattice translation or inversion, but require an additional lattice rotation. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Subhankar Khatua , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Jeroen van den Brink

Magnon bands are known to exhibit nontrivial topology in ordered magnets under suitable conditions, engendering topological phases referred to as magnonic topological insulators. Conventional methods to drive a magnonic topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Seunghun Lee , Gyungchoon Go , Se Kwon Kim

Engineering of phonons, i.e., collective lattice vibrations in crystals, is essential for manipulating physical properties of materials such as thermal transport, electron-phonon interaction, confinement of lattice vibration, and optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-04 Seung Gyo Jeong , Ambrose Seo , Woo Seok Choi

The ordering of magnetic or electric dipoles leading to real-space topological structures is at the forefront of materials research as their quantum mechanical nature often lends itself to emergent properties. Atomic lattice vibrations…

Magnetophononics, the modulation of magnetic interactions by driven infrared-active lattice excitations, is emerging as a key mechanism for the ultrafast dynamical control of both semiclassical and quantum spin systems by coherent light. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-17 M. Yarmohammadi , M. Krebs , G. S. Uhrig , B. Normand

Anharmonic lattice vibrations play a key role in many physical phenomena. They govern the heat conductivity of solids, strongly affect the phonon spectra, play a prominent role in soft mode phase transitions, allow ultrafast engineering of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-12 Gili Scharf , Tomer Hasharoni , Lara Donval , Leah Ben Gur , Alon Ron

Chiral phonons provide a route to couple lattice motion to magnetic order, but conventional chiral phonons carry a net angular momentum and thus couple naturally to net magnetization rather than to compensated N\'eel order. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Sanjib Kumar Das , Randy Yeh , Yafei Ren

Gauge magnetic fields have a close relation to breaking time-reversal symmetry in condensed matter. In the present of the gauge fields, we might observe nonreciprocal and topological transport. Inspired by these, there is a growing effort…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Xin Wang , Hong-Rong Li , Fu-Li Li