Experimental perspective on three-dimensional topological semimetals

BQ Lv, T Qian, H Ding - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Topological semimetals (TSMs) are characterized by bulk band crossings in their electronic
structures, which are expected to give rise to gapless electronic excitations and topological …

Topological materials for functional optoelectronic devices

H Chorsi, B Cheng, B Zhao, J Toudert… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The recent realization of topology as a mathematical concept in condensed matter systems
has shattered Landau's widely accepted classification of phases by spontaneous symmetry …

Chiral phonons in quartz probed by X-rays

H Ueda, M García-Fernández, S Agrestini, CP Romao… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Observation of interplay between phonon chirality and electronic band topology

FGG Hernandez, A Baydin, S Chaudhary, F Tay… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The recently demonstrated chiral modes of lattice motion carry angular momentum and
therefore directly couple to magnetic fields. Notably, their magnetic moments are predicted …

Evidence for topological magnon–phonon hybridization in a 2D antiferromagnet down to the monolayer limit

J Luo, S Li, Z Ye, R Xu, H Yan, J Zhang, G Ye… - Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Topological phonons and magnons potentially enable low-loss, quantum coherent, and
chiral transport of information and energy at the atomic scale. Van der Waals magnetic …

The 2022 magneto-optics roadmap

A Kimel, A Zvezdin, S Sharma… - Journal of Physics D …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Magneto-optical (MO) effects, viz. magnetically induced changes in light intensity or
polarization upon reflection from or transmission through a magnetic sample, were …

Large effective magnetic fields from chiral phonons in rare-earth halides

J Luo, T Lin, J Zhang, X Chen, ER Blackert, R Xu… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is pivotal for materials' optical, magnetic, topological, and
transport properties. Chiral phonons, characterized by atoms rotating unidirectionally around …

Fluctuation-enhanced phonon magnetic moments in a polar antiferromagnet

F Wu, S Bao, J Zhou, Y Wang, J Sun, J Wen, Y Wan… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Phonons are the quasiparticles of collective lattice excitations that may carry finite angular
momenta, but commonly exhibit negligible magnetic moments. A large phonon magnetic …

Light-induced magnetization from magnonic rectification

T Kahana, DA Bustamante Lopez, DM Juraschek - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Rectification describes the conversion of an oscillating field or current into a quasi-static one
and the most basic example of a rectifier is an AC/DC converter in electronics. This principle …

Terahertz electric-field-driven dynamical multiferroicity in SrTiO3

M Basini, M Pancaldi, B Wehinger, M Udina… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of collective order in matter is among the most fundamental and intriguing
phenomena in physics. In recent years, the dynamical control and creation of novel ordered …