Chiral phonons probed by X rays
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| author | Ueda, Hiroki García-Fernández, Mirian Agrestini, Stefano Romao, Carl P. Brink, Jeroen van den Spaldin, Nicola A. Zhou, Ke-Jin Staub, Urs |
| author_facet | Ueda, Hiroki García-Fernández, Mirian Agrestini, Stefano Romao, Carl P. Brink, Jeroen van den Spaldin, Nicola A. Zhou, Ke-Jin Staub, Urs |
| contents | The concept of chirality is of great relevance in nature, from chiral molecules such as sugar to parity transformations in particle physics. In condensed matter physics, recent studies have demonstrated chiral fermions and their relevance in emergent phenomena closely related to topology. The experimental verification of chiral phonons (bosons) remains challenging, however, despite their expected strong impact on fundamental physical properties. Here we show experimental proof of chiral phonons using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering with circularly polarized X rays. Using the prototypical chiral material, quartz, we demonstrate that circularly polarized X rays, which are intrinsically chiral, couple to chiral phonons at specific positions in reciprocal space, allowing us to determine the chiral dispersion of the lattice modes. Our experimental proof of chiral phonons demonstrates a new degree of freedom in condensed matter that is both of fundamental importance and opens the door to exploration of novel emergent phenomena based on chiral bosons |
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| spellingShingle | Chiral phonons probed by X rays Ueda, Hiroki García-Fernández, Mirian Agrestini, Stefano Romao, Carl P. Brink, Jeroen van den Spaldin, Nicola A. Zhou, Ke-Jin Staub, Urs Strongly Correlated Electrons The concept of chirality is of great relevance in nature, from chiral molecules such as sugar to parity transformations in particle physics. In condensed matter physics, recent studies have demonstrated chiral fermions and their relevance in emergent phenomena closely related to topology. The experimental verification of chiral phonons (bosons) remains challenging, however, despite their expected strong impact on fundamental physical properties. Here we show experimental proof of chiral phonons using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering with circularly polarized X rays. Using the prototypical chiral material, quartz, we demonstrate that circularly polarized X rays, which are intrinsically chiral, couple to chiral phonons at specific positions in reciprocal space, allowing us to determine the chiral dispersion of the lattice modes. Our experimental proof of chiral phonons demonstrates a new degree of freedom in condensed matter that is both of fundamental importance and opens the door to exploration of novel emergent phenomena based on chiral bosons |
| title | Chiral phonons probed by X rays |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03925 |