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most citedChiral phonons probed by X rays

141 citations · 217 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Dynamical multiferroicity in framework materials

Marek Matas, Carl P. Romao

Dynamical multiferroicity, which describes the magnetic fields generated by circularly polarized phonons in materials, is an established mechanism for optical control of magnetism.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Electric field switching of chiral phonons

Michael Grimes, Clifford J. Allington, Hiroki Ueda +8

Lattice vibrations carrying angular momentum, known as chiral phonons, have emerged as a promising route to control and understand complex material properties, yet their determinis…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Structural Evolution during Reversible Halogen Intercalation into WTe2: Commensurate-Incommensurate WTe2I and Multistage WTe2Brx (x = 0.5, 1.0 and 1.25)

Patrick Schmidt, Carl P. Romao, Hans-Jürgen Meyer

Halogen intercalation into the layered material tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) provides a unique pathway to tune its structural and electronic properties. In this study, we detail the…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Zero Indirect Band Gap and Flat Bands in a Niobium Oxyiodide Cluster Material

Jan Beitlberger, Mario Martin, Marcus Scheele +4

Explorative chemistry in a reaction system composed of NbI, Li(CN), and LiO has led to the discovery of a number of niobium oxyiodide cluster compounds. During this…

hep-ph2025

Chiral phonons in metal-organic frameworks as quantum sensors for the direct detection of dark matter

Marek Matas, Filip Krizek, Carl P. Romao

We investigate a new quantum sensor for dark matter direct detection with sub-eV sensitivity, focusing on several candidate materials that potentially host chiral phonons with larg…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Lattice excitations with finite polarization and magnetization

Mike Pols, Carl P. Romao, Dominik M. Juraschek

Ferrons are a type of quasiparticle corresponding to elementary excitations of the ferroelectric order. Analogously to how magnons modulate and transport magnetization, ferrons mod…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Hubbard dimer physics and the magnetostructural transition in the correlated cluster material NbCl

Alberto Carta, Peter Mlkvik, Fabian Grahlow +5

We present a combined computational and experimental study of NbCl, a correlated layered material containing Nb trimers, through the lens of competing intra- and interclust…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 5 cited

Electronic Structure and Transport in the Potential Luttinger Liquids CsNbBrS and RbNbBrS

Fabian Grahlow, Fabian Strauß, Marcus Scheele +6

The crystal structures of ANbBrS (A = Rb and Cs) have been refined by single crystal X-ray diffraction, and are found to form highly anisotropic materials based on chains o…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 141 cited

Chiral phonons probed by X rays

Hiroki Ueda, Mirian García-Fernández, Stefano Agrestini +5

The concept of chirality is of great relevance in nature, from chiral molecules such as sugar to parity transformations in particle physics. In condensed matter physics, recent stu…

hep-ph2023★ 16 cited

Chiral phonons as dark matter detectors

Carl P. Romao, Riccardo Catena, Nicola A. Spaldin +1

We propose a method for detecting single chiral phonons that will enable their use as dark-matter detectors. We suggest metal--organic frameworks (MOFs) as detector materials, as t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 19 cited

Anomalous thermal expansion and chiral phonons in BiBO

Carl P. Romao

The origins of anomalous thermal expansion in the chiral monoclinic solid -BiBO have been studied through ab initio calculations. Positive and negative axial thermal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 34 cited

Origins of anisotropic thermal expansion in flexible materials

Carl P. Romao

A definition of the Grüneisen parameters for anisotropic materials is derived based on the response of phonon frequencies to uniaxial stress perturbations. This Grüneisen model rel…

physics.bio-ph2013

Crystal nucleation and near-epitaxial growth in nacre

Ian C. Olson, Adam Z. Blonsky, Nobumichi Tamura +2

Nacre is a layered, iridescent lining found inside many mollusk shells, with a unique brick-and-mortar periodic structure at the sub-micron scale, and remarkable resistance to frac…