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Observation of chiral phonons

Published:2018-02-02 Issue:6375 Volume:359 Page:579-582
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Zhu Hanyu¹²^ORCID,Yi Jun¹^ORCID,Li Ming-Yang³^ORCID,Xiao Jun¹,Zhang Lifa⁴^ORCID,Yang Chih-Wen³,Kaindl Robert A.²^ORCID,Li Lain-Jong³^ORCID,Wang Yuan¹²^ORCID,Zhang Xiang¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

2. Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

3. Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

4. Department of Physics, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China.

Abstract

A phonon merry-go-round Chirality is associated with the breaking of symmetry, often described as left- or right-handed behavior. Such asymmetry can be seen, for example, in the electronic responses of particular materials or the reactions between particular chemical species. Zhu et al. observed a chiral phonon mode in a monolayer of the transition metal dichalcogenide WSe 2 , detected spectroscopically as the circular dichroism of the phonon-assisted transition of holes. Phonon chirality could be used to control the electron-phonon coupling and/or the phonon-driven topological states of solids. Science , this issue p. 579

Funder

Office of Naval Research

U.S. Department of Energy

National Natural Science Foundation of China

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

China Scholarship Council

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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