The recently demonstrated chiral modes of lattice motion carry angular momentum and
therefore directly couple to magnetic fields. Notably, their magnetic moments are predicted …

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

Phonons are the quasiparticles of collective lattice excitations that may carry finite angular
momenta, but commonly exhibit negligible magnetic moments. A large phonon magnetic …

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 …

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 …

PbTe crystals have a soft transverse optical phonon mode in the terahertz frequency range,
which is known to efficiently decay into heat-carrying acoustic phonons, resulting in …

Circularly polarized lattice vibrations carry angular momentum and lead to magnetic
responses in applied magnetic fields or when resonantly driven with ultrashort laser pulses …

Solid state compounds exhibiting multiple and coupled macroscopic orders, named
multiferroics, represent a challenge for both theoretical and experimental modern …

Utilization of the interaction between spin and heat currents is the central focus of the field of
spin caloritronics. Chiral phonons possessing angular momentum arising from the broken …

We develop a first-principles quantum scheme to calculate the phonon magnetic moment in
solids. As a showcase example, we apply our method to study gated bilayer graphene, a …