Time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is pivotal for materials' optical, magnetic, topological, and
transport properties. Chiral phonons, characterized by atoms rotating unidirectionally around …

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 …

Chiral phonons have recently been explored as a novel degree of freedom in quantum
materials. The angular momentum carried by these quasiparticles is generated by the …

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors exhibit unique valleytronic
properties interacting strongly with chiral phonons that break time-reversal symmetry. Here …

The phonon inverse Faraday effect describes the emergence of a dc magnetization due to
circularly polarized phonons. In this work we present a microscopic formalism for the phonon …

Chiral properties have seen increasing use in recent years, leading to the emerging fields of
chiral quantum optics, plasmonics, and phononics. While these fields have achieved …

We propose a mechanism to obtain chiral phononlike excitations from the bond-dependent
magnetoelastic couplings in the absence of out-of-plane magnetization and magnetic fields …

Recent experiments demonstrate precise control over coherently excited circular phonon
modes using high-intensity terahertz lasers, opening new pathways towards dynamical …

Optical rectification of intense, circularly polarized light penetrating a material generates a
static magnetization through the inverse Faraday effect and, therefore, a magnetic field …

We develop a quantitative theory of phonon magnetic moment in doped Dirac semimetals.
Our theory is based on an emergent gauge field approach to the electron-phonon coupling …