Magnon–phonon coupling: from fundamental physics to applications

K Wang, K Ren, Y Hou, Y Cheng… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent decades, there are immense applications for bulk and few-layer magnetic
insulators in biomedicine, data storage, and signal transfer. In these applications, the …

Actively and reversibly controlling thermal conductivity in solid materials

C Liu, C Wu, Y Zhao, Z Chen, TL Ren, Y Chen… - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
With the appearance of energy crisis, greenhouse effect, and heat management problem,
the control especially the active and reversible control of heat transport or thermal …

Spin-mediated shear oscillators in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

A Zong, Q Zhang, F Zhou, Y Su, K Hwangbo, X Shen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding how microscopic spin configuration gives rise to exotic properties at the
macroscopic length scale has long been pursued in magnetic materials,,,–. One seminal …

Tunable interaction between excitons and hybridized magnons in a layered semiconductor

GM Diederich, J Cenker, Y Ren, J Fonseca… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The interaction between distinct excitations in solids is of both fundamental interest and
technological importance. One such interaction is the coupling between an exciton, a …

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 …

Direct observation of topological magnon polarons in a multiferroic material

S Bao, ZL Gu, Y Shangguan, Z Huang, J Liao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Magnon polarons are novel elementary excitations possessing hybrid magnonic and
phononic signatures, and are responsible for many exotic spintronic and magnonic …

Ultrafast Coherent THz Lattice Dynamics Coupled to Spins in the van der Waals Antiferromagnet FePS3

F Mertens, D Mönkebüscher, U Parlak… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coherent THz optical lattice and hybridized phonon–magnon modes are triggered by
femtosecond laser pulses in the antiferromagnetic van der Waals semiconductor FePS3 …

Spin-correlated exciton–polaritons in a van der Waals magnet

F Dirnberger, R Bushati, B Datta, A Kumar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Strong coupling between light and elementary excitations is emerging as a powerful tool to
engineer the properties of solid-state systems. Spin-correlated excitations that couple …

Terahertz field-induced nonlinear coupling of two magnon modes in an antiferromagnet

Z Zhang, FY Gao, JB Curtis, ZJ Liu, YC Chien… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Magnons are quantized collective spin-wave excitations in magnetically ordered materials.
Revealing the interactions among these collective modes is crucial for the understanding of …