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Main Authors: Chaudhary, Swati, Romao, Carl P., Juraschek, Dominik M.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19121
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author Chaudhary, Swati
Romao, Carl P.
Juraschek, Dominik M.
author_facet Chaudhary, Swati
Romao, Carl P.
Juraschek, Dominik M.
contents Circularly polarized phonons conventionally carry an angular momentum and a magnetic moment arising from circular motions of the atoms. Here, we present three anomalous cases that lead to phonon magnetic moments, which cannot be described in the conventional framework: rotationless axial phonons, which exhibit magnetic responses despite only carrying pseudo angular momentum, divergent gyromagnetic ratios of phonons, in which a magnetic moment is produced despite vanishing angular momentum, and anisotropic gyromagnetic ratios of phonons, which make the phonon angular momentum and magnetic moment noncollinear. Our results shed light on the origin and nature of phonon magnetism and suggest the existence of phononomagnetic hidden order.
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spellingShingle Anomalous phonon magnetic moments
Chaudhary, Swati
Romao, Carl P.
Juraschek, Dominik M.
Materials Science
Circularly polarized phonons conventionally carry an angular momentum and a magnetic moment arising from circular motions of the atoms. Here, we present three anomalous cases that lead to phonon magnetic moments, which cannot be described in the conventional framework: rotationless axial phonons, which exhibit magnetic responses despite only carrying pseudo angular momentum, divergent gyromagnetic ratios of phonons, in which a magnetic moment is produced despite vanishing angular momentum, and anisotropic gyromagnetic ratios of phonons, which make the phonon angular momentum and magnetic moment noncollinear. Our results shed light on the origin and nature of phonon magnetism and suggest the existence of phononomagnetic hidden order.
title Anomalous phonon magnetic moments
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19121