Structural chirality and related properties in the periodic inorganic solids: Review and perspectives

E Bousquet, M Fava, Z Romestan… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Chirality refers to the asymmetry of objects that cannot be superimposed on their mirror
image. It is a concept that exists in various scientific fields and has profound consequences …

Lattice dynamics in chiral tellurium by linear and circularly polarized Raman spectroscopy: crystal orientation and handedness

D Spirito, S Marras, B Martín-García - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Trigonal tellurium (Te) has attracted researchers' attention due to its transport and optical
properties, which include electrical magneto-chiral anisotropy, spin polarization and bulk …

Understanding chiral charge-density wave by frozen chiral phonon

S Zhang, K Luo, T Zhang - npj Computational Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Charge density wave (CDW) is discovered within a wide interval in solids, however, its
microscopic nature is still not transparent in most realistic materials, and the recently studied …

Flat and tunable moiré phonons in twisted transition-metal dichalcogenides

A Ramos-Alonso, B Remez, D Bennett… - Physical Review Letters, 2025 - APS
Displacement fields are one of the main tuning knobs employed to engineer flat electronic
band dispersions in twisted van der Waals multilayers. Here, we show that electric fields can …

Diverse degeneracy types in topological phonons: A perspective

P Qin, G Liu, P Wu, H Xu - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The study of novel topological quantum states is gaining significant attention. Recently, the
concept of topology has expanded from fermions to bosons, leading to the new era of …

A new helical InSeI polymorph: crystal structure and polarized Raman spectroscopy study

L Olano-Vegas, D Spirito, E Modin, P Solokha… - Journal of Materials …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Tetragonal InSeI is an interesting low-dimensional metal chalcohalide due to its composition
and anisotropic crystal structure composed of helical chains, which give rise to …

Inherent circular dichroism of phonons in magnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2

R Yang, YY Zhu, M Steigleder, XG Qiu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We investigated the infrared-active phonons in ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn3S3
using optical spectroscopy. Below the Curie temperature (T~ 175~ K), we observed …

Chiral magnon-polaron edge states in Heisenberg-Kitaev magnets

JD Mella, LEFF Torres, RE Troncoso - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The interplay of spin and lattice fluctuations in two-dimensional magnets without inversion
symmetry is investigated. We find a general form for the magnetoelastic coupling between …

Chiral topological phononic quasiparticles in enantiomeric crystals and

YK Wang, AD Fan, JY Li, H Huang, S Li - Physical Review B, 2025 - APS
Chiral crystals have recently garnered significant interest in condensed matter physics due
to their unique electronic and optical properties. In this paper, we explore the connection …

[HTML][HTML] Terahertz interface states in a heterostructure parallel plate waveguide

H Liu, YY Zhang, J Ma, XY Wang, H Zhang, Y Li… - Physics Letters A, 2025 - Elsevier
Heterojunction is usually regarded as an interface structure composed of two semiconductor
materials with the different band structures. Some unusual interface effects, such as band …