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A new twist on phonons

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Many particles — both fundamental and emergent — carry angular momentum or spin. Experiments have now demonstrated that phonons can transport angular momentum, showing that they may have spin too.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of a spin current carried by a phonon.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

    Matthias B. Jungfleisch

  2. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA

    Axel Hoffmann

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Jungfleisch, M.B., Hoffmann, A. A new twist on phonons. Nature Phys 14, 433–434 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0104-1

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