Chiral phonons in polar LiNbO3
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| author | Ueda, Hiroki Nag, Abhishek Romao, Carl P. García-Fernández, Mirian Zhou, Ke-Jin Staub, Urs |
| author_facet | Ueda, Hiroki Nag, Abhishek Romao, Carl P. García-Fernández, Mirian Zhou, Ke-Jin Staub, Urs |
| contents | Quasiparticles describe collective excitations in many-body systems, and their symmetry classification is of fundamental importance because they govern physical processes on various timescales, e.g., excited states, transport phenomena, and phase transitions. Recent studies have revealed that quasiparticles can possess chirality and that this degree of freedom leads to various important phenomena. Among them, chiral phonons have recently attracted significant interest because of their intrinsic magnetism, which non-trivially bridges the spin system and the lattice. Here, we directly prove the presence of chiral phonons in a prototypical polar crystal LiNbO3. Our demonstration adds a polar crystal in the showcase of materials hosting chiral phonons and, furthermore, creates a substantial potential in chiral phononics because of its expected in-situ switchable phonon chirality and associated control of phonon angular momentum. |
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| spellingShingle | Chiral phonons in polar LiNbO3 Ueda, Hiroki Nag, Abhishek Romao, Carl P. García-Fernández, Mirian Zhou, Ke-Jin Staub, Urs Strongly Correlated Electrons Quasiparticles describe collective excitations in many-body systems, and their symmetry classification is of fundamental importance because they govern physical processes on various timescales, e.g., excited states, transport phenomena, and phase transitions. Recent studies have revealed that quasiparticles can possess chirality and that this degree of freedom leads to various important phenomena. Among them, chiral phonons have recently attracted significant interest because of their intrinsic magnetism, which non-trivially bridges the spin system and the lattice. Here, we directly prove the presence of chiral phonons in a prototypical polar crystal LiNbO3. Our demonstration adds a polar crystal in the showcase of materials hosting chiral phonons and, furthermore, creates a substantial potential in chiral phononics because of its expected in-situ switchable phonon chirality and associated control of phonon angular momentum. |
| title | Chiral phonons in polar LiNbO3 |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03330 |