Topological magnons: A review

PA McClarty - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
At sufficiently low temperatures, magnetic materials often enter correlated phases hosting
collective, coherent magnetic excitations such as magnons or triplons. Drawing on the …

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 …

Chirality selective magnon-phonon hybridization and magnon-induced chiral phonons in a layered zigzag antiferromagnet

J Cui, EV Boström, M Ozerov, F Wu, Q Jiang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic systems possess versatile magnetic order and can
host tunable magnons carrying spin angular momenta. Recent advances show angular …

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 …

Anomalous thermal hall effect in an insulating van der waals magnet

H Zhang, C Xu, C Carnahan, M Sretenovic, N Suri… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnets have been a fertile playground for the
discovery and exploration of physical phenomena and new physics. In this Letter, we report …

Nonreciprocal dzyaloshinskii–moriya magnetoacoustic waves

M Küß, M Heigl, L Flacke, A Hörner, M Weiler… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We study the interaction of surface acoustic waves with spin waves in ultrathin CoFeB/Pt
bilayers. Because of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (DMI), the spin wave …

Unconventional magnetism mediated by spin-phonon-photon coupling

PA Pantazopoulos, J Feist, FJ García-Vidal… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Magnetic order typically emerges due to the short-range exchange interaction between the
constituent electronic spins. Recent discoveries have found a crucial role for spin-phonon …

Topological magnon-phonon hybrid excitations in two-dimensional ferromagnets with tunable Chern numbers

G Go, SK Kim, KJ Lee - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We theoretically investigate magnon-phonon hybrid excitations in two-dimensional
ferromagnets. The bulk bands of hybrid excitations, which are referred to as magnon …

Unconventional interlayer exchange coupling via chiral phonons in synthetic magnetic oxide heterostructures

SG Jeong, J Kim, A Seo, S Park, HY Jeong, YM Kim… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Chiral symmetry breaking of phonons plays an essential role in emergent quantum
phenomena owing to its strong coupling to spin degree of freedom. However, direct …

Observation of magnon polarons in a uniaxial antiferromagnetic insulator

J Li, HT Simensen, D Reitz, Q Sun, W Yuan, C Li… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Magnon polarons, a type of hybridized excitations between magnons and phonons, were
first reported in yttrium iron garnet as anomalies in the spin Seebeck effect responses. Here …