Measuring chiral phonons

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10973v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:47:43 GMT
• Title: Measuring chiral phonons
• Abstract summary: Chiral phonons are quantized vibrations where the atomic motion in a solid breaks improper rotation symmetries.<n>Chiral phonons are important in a variety of fields including spintronics, spin-selective chemical reactions, thermal transport, quantum information processing and biosensing.
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• Abstract: Chiral phonons are quantized vibrations where the atomic motion in a solid breaks improper rotation symmetries. In many cases, chiral phonons possess angular momenta and are therefore selective to circularly polarized light. Both fundamental and applied research efforts on chiral phonons have been gaining increasing attention owing to their importance in a variety of fields including spintronics, spin-selective chemical reactions, thermal transport, quantum information processing and biosensing, where the bi-directional spin-lattice coupling enabled by chiral phonons can be harnessed in new ways, and potentially lead to new functionalities. Thus far, the studies of chiral phonons across diverse materials platforms have evolved largely independently within these fields, but the experimental techniques are often interrelated. In this perspective, we present a detailed description, as well as advantages and disadvantages of the current approaches for experimentally measuring chiral phonons in chiral and achiral materials. We conclude with a discussion of new methods for measuring chiral phonons. Ultimately, this work seeks to offer an experimental guide for systematically investigating the properties of chiral phonons in various materials systems and applications.

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